The Holiday season is something we are looking forward to, it means to spend more time with families, with friends, to stay more inside and around the fire. However, remembering the emotions and business of Holidays in my practice, clients and their pets were often coming in with different levels of stress.

Animals, as we know, in general absorb the surrounding energy and reflect it back even with a possibility of multiplying it. Oftentimes the pets have a difficult time to cope with it, and if you do not see the difficulty they have with this on the outside, they can struggle inside. 

Most pets like routine life and Holidays are all but routine; more visitors, new decorations, adding new things to the house (the Christmas tree…) and even new smells, or sounds from fire crackles. All this increases the level of stress and anxiety. 

This multiplied and undesired increased energy in the pet’s body transforms into internal Heat (as we refer to in Traditional Chinese Medicine) which leads to internal inflammation. This inflammation affects different areas of the body, mostly the pet’s weaker parts, based on possible pre-existing chronic conditions. Also dependent on the constitution of each body, some areas are more stable and some are more sensitive to stress. 

As a consequence, common complaints are: digestive problems, intermittent vomiting and/or diarrhea, decreased or changed appetite, urinary problems, such as urination in the house or painful urination, excessive grooming and itching caused by the internal Heat spreading to the extremities of the body.

Internal Heat also creates another unwanted effect and that is, disturbance in the pet's mind. Think about it in a similar way as a person who is upset, cannot settle down and cannot think straight, cannot move on in the right direction. With pets, this is similar, it disturbs them in their natural flow, and it is hard for them to settle down. Most common complaints of this are: increased panting, pacing, change of habits, excessive grooming, barking, or other vocal expressions.

To help to calm down the internal stress for the pet, natural products and herbs are available. That was also one of my goals with Petenergee, developing a formula of my most favorite herbs to help to balance and calm the mind, emotions and neurologic system in general. In the product I created the herbs are fortified by frequencies of specific areas of the brain to function smoother and more calmly in stressful situations. Look at the website www.petenergee.com for the product Anti Stress & Anxiety formula.

This product is both for dogs and cats.

Happy Holidays