169 | Obsessed with Your Dog’s Body Language? Here’s What You’re Missing

Hey Dog Lover 🐾

If you’ve ever found yourself obsessively watching your dog’s every lip lick, whale eye, or tail twitch… this episode is for you.

Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on why hyper-focusing on stress signals might actually be causing you to miss the bigger picture in your relationship.

Yes—your dog’s body language matters. But when you slip into stress-monitor mode, you lose your most powerful role: being their leader, their anchor, their source of calm confidence.

In this episode, I’ll help you:

• Reframe stress as feedback, not failure

• Understand why watching your dog too closely can break trust

• Learn how to respond to the world instead of reacting to the dog

• Shift from anxious analyzing into grounded leadership and connection

Because here’s the truth: your dog isn’t looking for you to spot danger.
They’re looking to you to say, “I see it—and we’re okay.”

You’ll walk away from this one with some super practical mindset shifts, a few “How interesting!” moments… and a deeper understanding of what your dog is really asking for when they look to you.

Hope you enjoy

Tracy xoxox

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Music Credit 🎶
Shawn Trotter – www.shawntrotter.com