Calm With Your Dog

We love hanging out with our dogs. They give us unconditional love and companionship, and being with them brings a real sense of comfort and connection.

When work, family, and everyday life get busy, it can be hard to find meaningful time. We’re often around our dogs, yet not always fully with them.

Calm With Your Dog is a supportive digital book that helps you change that.

Written by a neuroscience and resilience specialist, it explores how shared presence with your dog helps your nervous system settle, alongside simple ideas you can try together.

Gentle moments that help your dog feel more settled and relaxed, while giving you space to slow down too. And your dog will love it, because at the heart of it all, it means more time with you.

Not training.
Not fixing.
Just intentional moments that feel good to share and bring you closer.

This digital book is designed to be read online on your phone, tablet, or computer.

What’s Inside

Before you move into the shared activities, the book lays a gentle foundation.

The early chapters help you understand:

• How dogs calm themselves and how that differs from us
• How your nervous systems can influence each other
• Why calm can be shared rather than imposed
• How to shape an environment that supports settling
• What to do if your dog isn’t calm yet

This context often changes how you see everyday moments with your dog. It shifts the focus from fixing behaviour to understanding what supports connection and ease.

From there, you move into 20 guided activities designed to help you put this into practice.

Each activity is:

• simply structured
• realistic for busy lives
• easy to return to
• supportive of connection and calm for both of you

They are not complicated routines or strict techniques. They are small, intentional ways of spending time together that help your dog feel more settled and help you feel calmer too.