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🧠 The Negative Bias: How It Affects You, Your Dog, and Your Progress
I had never heard of negative bias until a few months ago, during a conversation with my own therapist. In one of our sessions, I was talking through a particular situation and found myself saying things like:“I bet that person thinks X.” “If I say or do X, the worst is going to happen.” My therapist gently stopped me and asked me to go back over what I had just said. She asked a simple but powerful question: “How much of what you’ve just said is fact — and how much is a sto

Gemma O'leary
Jan 233 min read
You’re Not Doing It Wrong: Why Your Reactive Dog Is Still Struggling
If you’ve ever come back from a walk feeling tense, embarrassed, or close to tears because your dog barked, lunged, or shut down again — this is for you. You might be asking yourself: Why is this still happening? I’ve done the training… so what am I missing? Am I failing my dog? Let me say this clearly, right from the start: You are not doing it wrong. And your dog is not being difficult. When You’ve Tried “Everything” — But Nothing Sticks Many of the owners I work with are t

Gemma O'leary
Jan 123 min read


🐾 Rethinking Reactivity: Changing How We See Our Dogs Is the First Step to Helping Them
If you live with a reactive dog, you’ve probably spent a lot of time wondering: “What am I doing wrong?”“Why can’t my dog just be normal?”“Why does this feel so hard?” I want to start by saying this clearly: reactivity is not a failure — of you or your dog. But helping a reactive dog often requires something that feels surprisingly difficult at first:👉 a shift in how we think about reactivity altogether. Because when we change our mindset, everything else starts to change to

Gemma O'leary
Jan 63 min read
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