Anima Books

books by holistic veterinarian Dr Christine King

Welcome to Anima Books!

Dr King is a holistic veterinarian who currently lives in southern Victoria, Australia.  She writes with a unique blend of scientific knowledge, practical experience, personal insight, and gentle humor.

Check out her latest books:

The Highly Sensitive Dog, 2nd edition

making life easier for these wonderful dogs

Around 1 in every 6 dogs is highly sensitive:

* easily excited

* easily overwhelmed

* emotionally sensitive

This book briefly explains the science of sensory-processing sensitivity and offers some practical strategies that make life easier for these wonderful dogs, and for ourselves in return.

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Better Together

how the animals we love can inspire our creativity and transform our shared lives

In this extraordinary little book, Dr Christine King explains, with stories from her own life, how the animals we love can inspire our creativity and transform our shared lives.

The secret is this:  “Loving them, and being loved in return, makes us feel good — and that changes everything…"

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Feeding Miss Lilly, revised edition

on feeding dogs a great, nature-inspired diet

Holistic veterinarian Dr Christine King teaches you how to make delicious, nutritious meals for your dog at home.

Using her own beloved dog (Miss Lilly) as an example, Dr King walks you through the principles and shows you how to apply them so that you can make meals your dog will love and thrive on.

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Retreat

notes from a virtual mountaintop retreat

After almost 60 years of trying, I'd finally had enough! I decided to “drop out” and take myself on a virtual retreat to an imaginary mountaintop for as long as it took.  That experience changed my life.

Join me on my adventures with solitude and with my two animal companions, Cat and Dog, who showed up along the way to teach me the things I most needed to learn.

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The Game

hide, seek, find, laugh

Have you ever wondered what life is all about?

This book contains notes I took during multiple meditations in which I tuned in to the wise old voice inside myself and asked the questions that were on my mind.

The central theme is this: What our source is up to in this physical or observable realm is play; a grand game.

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