Episode 10

Mirrors, Masks, and Magical Healing: A Journey with Our Furry Friends!

Howling at the Moon episode #10:

Mirrors & Masks: How Hidden Reflections Shape Your Healing Journey

What if the stories you tell yourself, about life, people, and your own worth, are just reflections in a hidden mirror?

In this deeply personal episode, Heatherleigh Strom shares a powerful teaching from the K9 Spirit Guides about “masks” we subconsciously wear and the mirrors they hold inside. These mirrors filter our experiences, often reinforcing the pain and fears we carry… until we heal them.

Through a heartfelt (and raw) listener review of her book K9 Spirit Guides, Heatherleigh explores how triggers point us toward unhealed wounds and how K9 Spirit Guide Oregon, a fusion of Black Panther and Basenji, specializes in gently removing these masks so we can see ourselves clearly again.

💫 You’ll discover:

• What spiritual “masks” are and how they distort reality

• Why triggers can be powerful healers in disguise

• How the K9 Spirit Guides work through stories to activate deep emotional release

• Oregon’s role in helping us remove masks and connect to our higher self

• The deeper mission of K9 Spirit Guides as more than a book

🐾 Special Note: The full healing transmission from Oregon ("Mirror Mitigation Meditation") is now available exclusively for subscribers

More from your host, Heather Leigh Strom:



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recorded December 2023

We're diving deep into a super important topic today that revolves around the masks we wear and the mirrors they hold—yes, those sneaky little things can really mess with our perception! Our conversation is all about how these masks can block us from seeing our true selves and how the K9 spirit guides, like the fabulous Oeragon, help us peel those layers away. I mean, sometimes we put on these masks without even realizing it, trying to protect ourselves from judgment or hurt. But guess what? Those masks can actually reflect back all the stuff we’re trying to hide, like pain and fear. So, if you’ve ever felt like you’re not quite getting a clear picture of who you are or where you’re going, stick around! We’re going to explore how to lift those masks and see ourselves—and the world—more clearly, with a sprinkle of canine wisdom along the way!

Delving deep into the intertwining themes of healing, trauma, and the wisdom of our canine companions, this episode presents a rich tapestry of insights and experiences. The conversation is sparked by a poignant review of my book that resonates with the listener's own struggles, highlighting how our perceptions can be shaped by our experiences. Heather Leigh Strom emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the masks we wear to protect ourselves from pain and how these masks can distort our view of reality. With a playful sense of humor and an engaging narrative style, the episode invites listeners to reflect on their own life experiences and the lessons they can draw from them. The dynamic between the speaker and the audience creates an inviting atmosphere for personal exploration, making it clear that the journey to self-discovery and healing is one that many can relate to. The episode’s light-hearted approach to heavy topics encourages listeners to approach their own healing journeys with compassion and understanding, making it a truly enriching experience.

Takeaways:

  • In today's episode, we dove into the powerful concept of mirrors and masks, exploring how they shape our perception and assist in our personal journeys. It's like seeing life through a funhouse mirror, but instead, it's revealing our true selves!
  • We chatted about how the canine spirit guides, particularly Oeragon, help us peel off those masks that hide our true essence, allowing us to connect with our higher selves. Talk about a makeover that goes beyond the surface!
  • Listeners learned that the painful stories shared in our book are not just sad tales but crucial lessons that promote healing and transformation. It's like a bridge over troubled waters, leading us to brighter shores!
  • The review shared in this episode highlighted how the emotional responses we have to the book reflect our own healing journeys, showing that we all have different perspectives shaped by our experiences. It's a reminder that everyone's journey is unique, and that's what makes it beautiful!
  • We emphasized the importance of addressing generational trauma and how the book encourages breaking cycles of abuse, fostering a kinder world for both humans and our furry friends. After all, we don't just want to survive; we want to thrive!
  • Lastly, we invited everyone to connect with their own K9 spirit guides, reminding us that our pets are not just companions but also powerful healers who walk with us through life's challenges. They truly hold a magical space in our hearts!
Transcript
Speaker A:

Today we have a very urgent, important conversation and topic that I have been instructed to stop everything I'm doing and share with you. It's very powerful information about our mirrors and our masks and how they work and how they attempt to assist us along our path.

So hold that thought. I'll be right back.

Speaker B:

Welcome to Howling at the Moon, where the mystical meets the practical. And the K9 spirit guides lead the way. I'm your host, Heather lee Strom.

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My mission, to help you find your way through your own awakening journey.

Here you'll discover limitless possibilities for spiritual growth, powerful healing frequencies and extraordinary energetic professionals, each designed to guide you into deeper healing and remembrance. Some episodes feature enlightening wisdom from spiritually evolved guest healers, visionaries and authors.

Others are led by the multidimensional canine spirit guides, themselves sharing their unique intergalactic wisdom and frequency. If you've been craving deeper truth, multi dimensional healing and a little cosmic magic, you've just found your pack.

Listen and watch on Spotify or YouTube and bring the magic back into your life.

Speaker A:

Today something really extraordinary happened and I want to share it with you. I've been instructed to share it with you from the K9 spirit guides. It's very important.

It's a great example of how these guides can work on many fronts.

I think if you followed me for a little bit, you might have heard me on multiple occasions share about one of the guides, specifically Oeragon, who is on the COVID of the book, she's the Black Panther and the Basenji.

She is very powerful in removing masks that block us, number one, from seeing ourselves and also that we use to portray a false sense of self to the world. So we tend to hide behind these masks. But what I have found in healing sessions with her is that it's not so much what we're hiding from.

Sometimes I've actually seen in these masks, masks that they have a mirror on the inside of them. So when we put up masks for to hide behind and we're not conscious of this, it's a very subconscious event that happens.

The ego does this automatically to protect us from being hurt, to protect us from other people judging us and to protect us from our own self judgment. So when these masks go into place, they actually have a mirror on the back of them. And I've seen these with people I've worked with.

And this mirror reflects back to us the actual pain and fear and lies that we are circulating through our psyche, that we tell ourselves. And when this happens, it's like a filter through your senses. So you tend to only see these things, and there's a reason for it.

So if you have a mask that's telling you that the world is. Is dangerous, or people can't be trusted, or humans are abusive, then that's all you're going to see when you interact with the world.

And that's why it's so important that these masks be. Be healed and removed. And that's what Oeragon does in her healing sessions.

And you can't effectively connect to your higher self or your actual divine soul until this is actually removed. You can't see past it. So she's a critical step in our ability to heal and ascend and expand our energetic frequency, our awareness, our spirituality.

So what happened today was I received a review of my book from a person that I don't know in North Carolina. I'm going to show you the review here in a second. But when I read her review, her energy just washed over me.

And essentially I got to see life through her mask. And it was a very painful place. I could feel her pain. And I was honored that she felt the need to share openly and honestly from her heart.

And it's very important that we discuss this because this effect that you're going to see, what she writes about is exactly how. How this book works.

It's exactly what's going to happen possibly when you read it, when your family reads it, the book will stir up anything that you need healing for or with, and it will bring it to the surface. And it can be an. An. A horrific explosion of emotion.

And it's not just because some of the stories in the book are really, really sad, because they are. I mean, let's face it, these. Most of the dogs in the book that I share have passed on.

So we've got some stories about dogs leaving, and that's not a comfortable experience for most people, but it's necessary for you to understand, so I had to share that part. Not all of them you'll be experiencing that, but some of the key players.

It was very important I shared that part of their story because at that moment there was a major opportunity for growth.

But if this book speaks to you, it's not just the sadness from the dog's passing, it's the energy that the canine spirit guides are stirring up in you. And they're bringing these emotions to the surface for a reason. So that these energies can be healed and dissolved and removed forever.

This is exactly what they did with me. This book was hard to write.

I was openly honest, flayed open in front of all of the world so that you could see exactly the inner workings of my process, my growth, my pain, my agony. So that it would resonate within you. So let's look at this review.

I'm going to read it for those of you who are listening so that you know what it says. It's titled if you want to cry, listen to this book. And that is true. There is a disclaimer obviously she listened on audible.

There is a disclaimer in the beginning of the book that says I encourage you to abandon any limitations you have about reading sad stories about animals because it is within our pain and the difficult parts of our life that we receive the greatest learning. The sad parts are filled with revelations and gifts. So I encourage you to courageously venture forward.

So that was an added content to the audible book because I knew it was going to be hard for some people to read this or listen to this book and I encourage you to do it anyway. But let's, let's continue with her her heartfelt comments here. Many times I wanted to stop listening and abandon this book.

I'll be honest, I thought this book was about dog spirit guides.

Although it has information about spirit guides, most of the book is gut wrenching painful stories about dogs being mistreated by the author or her father. That's not true. But that's her. That's her experience. That's her version of the story and we'll talk about that in a little bit.

I know she is telling these stories to teach others, but for someone like me who is highly sensitive to the feelings and pain of animals, especially dogs, at times it was unbearable. The mysterious disappearance of her first dog with her puppies when author was a small child was painful to hear.

The fact that her mother still refuses to tell her what happened to her dog with her puppies makes me think that they that her parents killed them all. If they gave them away, they would have told her and there's some assumption on her part there, but I'm not going to argue with any of that.

Then the story about her selling her dogs to get a horse. It made me really upset. Dogs went from her protectors and best friends to objects to sell because they were not good enough anymore.

At the end she lost her dogs and didn't get the horse. Dogs were upset and devastated. Not knowing why she sent them away. They never knew another human but her. She betrayed them.

The only excuse I would I will accept is she was a teenager at that time. She didn't know any better. And that's true. Her story resonated with me. Her childhood abuse, neglect.

I know she learned a lot and changed because of her experiences.

As I sit writing this review surrounded by my three dogs, I'm devastated for the suffering some of the dogs in this book experienced as well as many dogs in the world still do. I often ask, why are these angels?

Why are these angels have to suffer so much in the hands of the people who when all they ever want to do is love them. What will it take to change humanity and be kind? And that's kind of the point of the book. One of the points of the book anyway.

Overall, I recommend that you listen to this book. The lesson is child abu. Child abuse leads to animal abuse. I can't say that I agree with that statement, but that's her experience.

Generational pain must be healed and stopped. Absolutely, I agree with that statement. And that is one of the messages in the book.

When parents abuse children because they were abused by their own parents, it changes children's brains to be abusive towards animals and their own children. I can't say that that was my experience, but again, this is her experience.

Someone has to stop the pattern and make a decision that they will break this pattern. I know it's possible because I too was physically and emotionally abused by my parents. Yet I could never be cruel to my children or animals.

As a teenager, I looked my mother in the eye and told her that I will live my life exactly opposite of the way she lived hers. I kept my promise. And I know that anyone can make a decision not to be cruel. That's true, precious. Dogs are here for us to heal.

Often they suffer to help us learn and heal the pain. And that's absolutely true.

The reason I wanted to share this was because, like I said when I read her review, it's like her soul, her spirit just came and sat in my lap and showed me where she was, showed me what she was feeling. I could feel her emotions as strongly as my own and it felt very uncomfortable. It was exactly where I had sat before.

The K9 spirit guides worked with me. And so what she's seeing in this book, what she's picking up on, it appears to be a negative review, yet she gave me three, five stars.

So what she's picking up on is the triggering that the guides have provided her, the. There's some healing that needs to be done.

So the statements that she makes, the absolute statements that she makes about the world and about abusers and about how the dogs were abused, that's what she extrapolated from the book. Because of her mirror, because of her mask, she was not able to draw in the healing frequency of what the canine guides were offering.

And it kind of sounds like she might not have even finished the book. I could be wrong. I don't know. She's welcome to correct me on that.

And I would love to have a chat with her if she's watching or if anyone who knows who wrote this review, please put us in contact. I would love to have a chat with her, a heartfelt chat, because I'm very grateful for her willingness to share herself.

But it's a learning opportunity, and that's why I want to kind of pick it apart a little bit, to demonstrate how what we perceive in the world is filtered through what we need to heal in ourselves.

So I had the same thoughts as her before I wrote the book, before the K9 guides came into my life, before they explained to me how everything worked and why everything happened, before they healed me magically and energetically through our sessions together. And this is how it works. So other people will read the book. And I've gotten lots of. Of different perspectives by people who've read the book.

Other people who read the book don't even resonate with the parts that she resonated with.

Instead, they see the healing parts or they see the spiritual parts, because when you get to that point of expansion, you can understand the big picture. You can understand your own journey, your own pain, and you can just read the book and go, I get it. I get it.

This was all necessary in order for me to understand. And none of the book, the dogs and the stories were abused.

They went willingly along a journey with me, knowing exactly where I was and exactly what I needed. And the point of the book is that the canines are so much more advanced than we are.

When they come into this world, they are already part of our soul family, and they know what we need. It's very hard on this earth plane. It's the hardest place to incarnate.

And as we lose connection, as we feel isolated from our source, it gets even harder and harder to find our way back. But that's the point of being here. So the canines provide us with the tools, the.

And they're not really able to, like, lay it all out for us and share it obviously with us, because they're not allowed to interfere. So they are kind of sort of not really, but sort of passive on our journey.

But what my book reveals is that they are participating much more actively than we realize. So do please take that into consideration.

But for someone like this, for this type of perspective, if you were my client and we were working in a session together, there is a lot of healing opportunity there. And the guides are really activating her. They're revving her up and attempting to get her to see what needs to be healed within herself.

And when that is healed, she won't see the pain anymore. She'll read this book and she'll see the joy. She'll see the growth.

She'll see how beautifully the canines served me on my journey and how they willingly walked next to me through the process and gave me, provided me with the experiences that I required, and they protected me and guarded me throughout the entire journey, not just this life, but other lives as well. So this is a heavy topic, and this is an important topic.

So I'm very grateful for the reviewer who was so openly honest and just laid her heart out there on her review. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I hope that someday we meet and we can have a conversation and share some energy. I.

It sounds like we have a very similar history. And I. I hope that the book did speak to you on some level, that that shows you the way to let.

To survive all of that and to find the peace with it like I did. And again, the K9 spirit guides are inviting you to engage with them. They can help you. They can just lift this right off of you.

And I know you have dogs, three dogs of your own. You've probably got three guides right there. So. All right.

So in light of this conversation and in light of the topic with the mask and the mirrors, the guide that wishes to deliver a very special, very, very special healing for this podcast today is Oeragon, and she is the dog, the guide. On the COVID of the book, we've got the black panther and the Basenji. So she's coming forward to offer us some healing.

So I would like for those who wish to receive the healing to acknowledge this out loud or psychically, however you wish to do it, acknowledge that you wish to receive this healing, this whatever it might be, because I don't know yet. I haven't downloaded it.

Speaker B:

Thank you for joining me today. The healing session for this episode with the K9 spirit guides is now available exclusively through my subscriber portal. On Substance Stack.

These energetic downloads are sacred transmissions, and by moving them to a dedicated space, I can connect more intentionally with those of you who feel called to receive them. It also helps me get to know you a little better so that I can more effectively serve and support this growing community.

If you'd like to access the healing frequencies of this episode's K9 Spirit Guide and future transmissions, just head over to my substack@heatherleighstrom.substack.com and become a subscriber. Whether you join us there or simply tune in here, the Canine Spirit Guides and I are so grateful to share this path with you.

And be sure to stay put because there might be more coming on this podcast.

Speaker A:

Okay? Wonderful. Wonderful, you guys, that was powerful. Hopefully you felt it. It was very strong. I've not seen this is new technology that she's using.

I've not seen her do this before. Of course, every time I work with them it's something different.

This is very similar to what I do in my private sessions, except of course, this is in a group and so it's not specific to any particular person, although you will get what you need through a group transmission. So if you require, or if you're interested in finding your own answers to your own specific path, schedule a private session with me.

Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much whoever wrote that review. It was incredibly helpful, empowering, beautiful, and I thank you for sharing your heart with the world.

Speaker C:

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This award winning book, K9 Spirit Guides the Healing Power of Man's Best Friend by Heather Leigh Strom is available on Amazon.com and heatherleighstrom.com get your copy today and begin your journey.

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Heatherleigh Strom is a Galactic K9 Channel & Akashic Reader, Quantum Healer, award-winning author, and a multidimensional storyteller who guides listeners through awakening, alignment, and ascension. As host of Howling at the Moon, she invites you to journey beyond the ordinary into the mystical and cosmic where soulful conversations with spiritual visionaries, healers, and thought leaders meet transmissions from the intergalactic K9 Spirit Guides.

Each episode opens a portal of remembrance, helping you navigate your spiritual path, embody higher frequencies, and rediscover your own divine design. Whether you’re new to awakening or already walking the multidimensional path, Howling at the Moon will inspire you to awaken, align, and ascend, one frequency shift at a time.