Ascend Dog Training

05/15/2023

05/07/2023

Dogs have a right to experience enriched and high-quality lives.

05/28/2022

Believe it, there are 8 loose dogs in this video. You can’t see them because they’re all chilling in the shade knowing that their handler needs to transmute a minor inconvenience in her life.

Check on yourself before you work with your dogs. It’s not humanly possible to be at our 100% on a daily. We sure give our best, but let’s be honest. Rhetoric question alert. How many of us are really functioning at full capacity? What about those days when you’re tried and pushed to your limits physical and emotional? You pause. Or at least you should. You acknowledge your pain, you understand what’s misaligned and you transmute so that you can continue on with your journey. Don’t dwell on your pain too long. When you beam whatever aspect of your life that needs it with light and love you get to exercise who you want to become. We are always one choice away from becoming the best or the worst version of ourselves. Breathe. Communicate that you need space to work on yourself. Fill up your cup and come back to reconnect with the world around you later. The world will give you endless opportunities for you to practice for your big test. Sometimes 5 minutes is all you need. Once the heaviness is put away, get yourself another 5 minutes or however long you can and go play with your dogs. That is training and proper socialization happening right there at the most controlled environment you have. Use this opportunity wisely, and if you need help, hi I’m Chris :)

05/14/2022

My website has launched!!! I am so filled with pride, gratitude and joy! If you’d like to learn a bit more about who the heck I am and where I come from and one of the reason of why I am here on this planet, go check my page out 💚🦋🌊💙⭐️♥️ link in my bio

05/11/2022

Off to another training session and the whole family comes along! That’s what I’m talking about. It’s not dog training if everyone in the household isn’t involved. I love my clients and what I do.🌎⭐️🌊

03/05/2022

When the underdog human meets the underdog dog and they stick for each other. Society said we would never make it, yet here we are.
💚☮️🤘🏼We mad kids son!

01/26/2022

Rule nº1 of Fight Club:
Do not talk about Fight Club.

Rule n° 2?
Maybe we should..

What lengths would you go to protect someone you love?

We all inherited the wild.
It’s encrypted in our DNA🧬 you cannot erase it. We all, animals of every species will tap into our most primitive instincts if we feel the safety of whom we care about is in danger. If our boundaries are violated, if our trust is broken. Primitive feelings of fear, protection, fierceness, rage, they all come to surface in a very raw untamed form. What we should talk more about is how beautiful and plastic this moment is.

The majority of us feels a rush. Some freeze up. The vision and ability to think clearly blurs, gets cloudy. This is one way of describing a trauma being born.
Not only physical trauma needs healing.
Untreated psychological trauma also leaves us wounded oftentimes for way too long.
Our neurons fire in trauma and wire together. A new pattern is borne.
The good news:
We all have the natural ability and resources for neuroplasticity. The ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization.
How you process trauma will become the blueprint of how you are most likely to respond to things and events that trigger you. You may not even be aware of it, and just like that you are vacuumed into this loop of hell.
The safest escape from all this in modern society is shown in forms of “I can’t do this anymore”. You then turn your back, leaving whatever caused you that trauma to resurface behind, or maybe you stick with it (whatever it is) and live a codependent relationship with your trauma, it’s patterns even its source. You go on with your life and the event becomes a mere “Remember that time when…. Ooh I’m so glad it’s not my problem anymore!”, or worse. You don’t even talk about it.
Until life happens, again. And surely it does to and for all of us. A new subject, an old untreated wound, same old patterns.
Awareness is the first step that will catapult you into healing and clearing the clouds in the sky of your consciousness.
Those feelings of fury, abandonment, neglect, broken trust, crossed boundaries, indignation, shame, fear, powerlessness, all will pay us an occasional visit from time to time.
How many of these feelings have become your blueprint?
Be aware. Feel it in your body. Understand the pattern. Purge. Reconnect with yourself and the world that surrounds you. Continue on. Repeat as needed.
If a trauma is related to an experience with your dog this approach is extremely applicable. Remember. Neurons that fire together wire together. This is for the good and the bad experiences we live. What kind of messages are you wiring in your relationship with yourself and your animals?

Purge & reconnect.

Good risings 💚🐛🦋🌎

01/14/2022

Warning ⚠️

Your dog is judging you!

Warning ⚠️

Not the way you think they do!

Aah the human onion layer of judgement…

We cannot escape it no matter how hard we try. One way or another it’s going to get us. We are only humans after all. Dogs can be judgmental too. In fact they are judgmental all the time. The difference from their judgment to ours is one of the things that makes them so fascinating.

I’ll explain.

While a human may have a “he/she-is-so-difficult-judgmental-kinda-thought”, dogs are more along the lines of “mmm.. what’s in it for me that will better my own situation right now?”.

They function based off of that all.the.time. So next time you find yourself frustrated wondering why your dog isn’t listening or doing what you ask, here a few core questions to ask yourself:

1. Am I asking in a way dogs understand?
2. Did I actually show my dog how to do this? (you fill the blank)
3. What’s in it for them?
4. Is our relationship strong enough?
5. Am I able to understand and help them cope the best I can when they are having a hard time?

Now, this post is for you wether those questions hit home to you or if your reading this here, sitting in pure human judgement.
I invite you to think about the following for a moment.
How would, not only your dog, but everyone you have a relationship with, everyone that you truly care about INCLUDING yourself, benefit if you had the answer to those questions?

See you on the road 🐾