Walking
Through
Walls™
CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT
CHRISTINE
CHRISTINE LONGNECKER
Christine is an animal communicator, animal advocate, and energy healer whose work reaches people and their pets around the world. Her unconventional path has taken her from government intelligence analyst to entrepreneur, professional horse trainer, dog sport participant, and, ultimately, championing a career built around trusting her intuition. Her journey as an animal communicator began when Miles, a once considered “unadoptable” rescue dog, looked at her from his shelter kennel and told her he “just wanted to be a good boy.” Together they went on to compete in the agility portion of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog show, capturing the attention of The New York Times and helping bring wider attention to her work as an animal communicator. Since then she has been featured in multiple news outlets, such as ABC World News Tonight, Inside Edition, and CBC Radio-Canada, and appeared on a number of podcasts, including WooWoo with Rachel Dratch, As It Happens, and CNN's 5 Good Things. Through her work and her stories, Christine encourages others to acknowledge the sentience of the world around them, embrace authenticity, and trust the connections and experiences we have that make life uniquely our own.
Christine's Book Contribution and Related Summit Presentation:
Reconnecting to What They Never Forgot
Life Lessons from Animals
Theme / Summary
Christine invites us to remember a kind of connection that animals never seem to lose: presence, intuition, relationship, and participation in the living world around us. Through her work as an animal communicator, she describes animals not simply as companions, but as teachers who model how to inhabit the moment, prepare without wasting energy on worry, and meet life as it unfolds. Their wisdom points back to a quieter intelligence that humans can forget when schedules, expectations, and mental noise take over. In the language of Walking Through Walls, Christine's chapter asks whether one of our walls is the belief that wisdom must arrive through human logic. When we become still enough to notice what animals, nature, and our own intuition are showing us, possibility expands. The invitation is not to escape being human, but to become more fully alive within our humanity, more present, more connected, more willing to learn from the world we share.
