DOCTOR M OOLITTLE
From cows to chipmunks, psychic Lizzy says she can talk to the animals... and they tell her their problems
ANIMAL psychic Lizzy Adams knew she had a rapport with four-legged friends – after hearing it straight from the horse’s mouth.
The former pub manager had studied energy healing sessions and was examining a friend’s steed when the beast “told” Lizzy not to touch a sensitive area.
Lizzy was stopped in her tracks. And it marked the beginning of a remarkable “Doctor Dolittle” journey that has led her to literally talk to the animals – from chipmunks and guinea pigs to cows.
She says she is able to translate their feelings and sort out problems.
Lizzy, 35, also acts as a pet medium to reunite owners with their lost loved ones.
And the mum of two even performs reiki sessions – a Japanese energy healing practice – for animals.
Lizzy, from Dover, Kent, says she always knew she had “a gift”, but her spiritual awakening began in earnest when she tried reiki with a friend in 2018.
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She found the Japanese approach to relaxation – by placing gentle hands above the body – worked for her.
Lizzy says: “I’d heard about reiki and how it’s good for your mental health.
“Part of my brain was like, ‘This sounds like a load of tosh, the next big thing that’s going to be a scam’. But the other part of me was like, ‘What have you got to lose’?”
The session involved Lizzy lying on a massage table as a practitioner’s hands drew Japanese symbols in the air over her body to remove negative energy.
Reiki is considered a pseudoscience – but Lizzy came away deeply moved and intrigued by the experience.
And it wasn’t long into her online studies of reiki that she learned she could use the practice on animals as well as people.
She’s since performed reiki – and even psychic readings – on a range of creatures. Which is where the horse comes in.
Lizzy says: “I asked a couple of my friends if I could practise on their animals. The results that came back were amazing.”
In one instance, a friend remarked that the horse Lizzy was treating had been much calmer with her than she had with a physio during an earlier appointment.
Lizzy says: “I was listening to her and then all of a sudden I just heard in my mind, ‘Well you wouldn’t like it if you got touched there’.
“I looked around and my friend was like, ‘Are you all right?’
“I said, ‘Yeah – I know this sounds daft, but did the physio touch her bum area?’
“My friend looked at me shocked and said, ‘Yeah
– how did you know’?
“I didn’t really know how to explain it. I was like, ‘Because she just told me’!” Believing she could hear the thoughts of animals, Lizzy says she is now contacted by owners from around the world eager to learn about their pets’ pasts. It can, she says, bring up painful experiences.
Lizzy adds: “It can be quite tough because you feel that emotion and because you are connecting the owner and the animal as well, they might feel that emotion too.”
Once, as she approached a horse with its owner, she says she heard it say: “Please don’t hurt me”.
Lizzy says: “I looked at this woman and said, ‘Your horse was beaten before she came here, wasn’t she?’
“I was going through the session and she [the horse] showed me a man hitting her and how she was confined to a small space. It was just horrible for her.”
Despite her professed powers, Lizzy never gives out medical advice and always encourages clients to see vets about health issues.
But she does claim to offer a service no vet can – contacting an animal after it has died. For £45, Lizzy w hour-long medium reading touch with your passed-on pe
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The first time she tried, in was calling for a white Staffor terrier named Taya.
Lizzy says: “I just kept c name through and I had the i to me so I could feel the en that. She came through. Even
makes my heart go. She was beautiful and I will always be grateful that she was the first animal I ever reached out to.
“She showed me running along this beach – all these memories – with a stick in her mouth and how much she enjoyed it.”
Taya’s owner was overcome with emotion when she received Lizzy’s write-up of what she’d seen.
It is a typical reaction from clients. Lizzy goes on: “The feedback I usually get afterwards is people saying, ‘Thank
you so much for this’ – or they’ve noticed an energy around their house.
“I did one last week and I connected with a cat that had passed over. I said to this young lady, ‘Your cat is around you, but you may not have noticed. I don’t know how he’s going to show you that he’s around you, but he’s telling me soon, and incredibly soon, that he’s going to show he’s there with you still’.
“She messaged me yesterday and she sent me this little video of these orbs floating around. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s like this little wispy light that comes off near their phone. She said: ‘I knew that was my cat – as soon as I saw it, I just knew.’
“I get so overwhelmed. Everybody, every person, every animal is new, and it’s exciting no matter if you do it 100 times or more.”
Lizzy’s remote reiki sessions cost £40 – and it’s £60 for an in-person session.
Given what she does for a living, it’s no surprise that people have compared Lizzy to Dr Dolittle, author Hugh Lofting’s fictional vet who could talk to animals.
He penned the first in a series of
Dolittle novels in 1920 and a string of movies about the character have starred the likes of Eddie Murphy and, more recently, Robert Downey Jr.
It’s a comparison Lizzy is completely wild about. She says: “I love Dr Dolittle, have done since I was a kid.
“I’m completely obsessed with the Robert Downey Jr film.
“Growing up, I was like, ‘How amazing would that be to speak to animals?’ Now obviously I can.
“And my friends say ‘You’re a bit like Dr Dolittle aren’t you’?”
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