Soul on a Leash

Your dog knows something about you that you don't.

Watch closely. The dog who can't be left alone. The dog you rescue compulsively. The dog who reflects back your anxiety, your need for control, your hunger for a love you never learned to ask for. Dogs do not lie. They do not manage their feelings or edit their responses. They simply show up, again and again, as perfect mirrors of the emotional world we carry inside us.

Soul on a Leash draws on depth psychology, attachment theory, and the ancient mythology of the dog as guide and psychopomp to explore the profound psychological work that happens in the space between a human and a dog. Through the stories of real people and the dogs who changed them, this book asks: What is your dog showing you? What are you learning to receive? And what happens to the soul when the leash is finally lifted?
For anyone who has loved a dog and known, without being able to explain it, that something essential was at stake.