Author ~ Memoirs
What I learned from healing animals, I had to learn again for myself.
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Whether you’re an animal lover drawn to holistic healing or a woman working to understand what your family handed down, my work speaks to your journey.
I spent years as an animal behaviorist and Healing Touch practitioner, listening to creatures who never learned to hide what hurts. An animal doesn’t minimize its pain to keep the peace. It doesn’t wait to be asked twice. That work taught me to read the body as the honest witness it is, and it took me a long time to understand I’d been ignoring my own.
My writing lives in that gap. What the body says when we’ve gone quiet. What our mothers and grandmothers carried before us, handed down through the maternal line without a word spoken. What it costs to sit in an exam room and be told nothing is wrong. And what it takes to finally ask for help — which turns out to be the bravest thing most of us will do.
My first book came out of the listening. Courageous Heart is what happened when I had to turn that listening on myself, in a season of life when my body stopped being polite about it. Both are about the same thing: paying attention before the body has to shout.
- Using Sound Therapy to Accelerate Animal Healing and Emotional Balance.
- Integrating Diverse Animal Energy Therapies With all Animal Species.
- Restore Optimal Animal Health, Behavioral Stability, and Longevity.
- Guiding Animals Back to Their Inherent Instinctual Alignment.
BOOKS
Animal Energy
THERAPY PROJECT
Animal Energy Therapy Project, is a collection of transformative healing stories from animals across India, documenting my research and integrative energy work.
Available in Kindle format, Paperback, and Audiobook on Amazon!
COURAGEOUS
HEART
Courageous Heart is my memoir of ancestral healing and self-discovery. Through my cancer journey, I reveal how breaking family silence and claiming my voice transformed not just my survival, but my entire sense of self. Available now.
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ANNE-FRANS VAN VLIET
Anne-Frans is an animal behaviorist, dog trainer, Healing Touch for Animals practitioner, and author of Animal Energy Therapy Project. With a background in psychology, health and wellness, she has dedicated her life to bridging western and eastern approaches to spirituality, healing, and everyday living—an integrative approach she brings to her work with animals across the United States, India, and Europe, and which proved invaluable during her own cancer journey.
Originally from Holland, she lives in Northern California with her husband and four beloved animal companions. She continues to expand her writing, from animal behavior to memoir to fiction. An avid athlete, she loves the outdoors, travels, runs Little Bitty Nuts (a small cottage food business), and maintains close family and friend connections across continents.
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