Episode 88. Hope for Challenging Dogs with the Way of Life Method with Dr. Souha Ezzedeen

Have you – or someone you know – ever struggled with a challenging dog?  Where you’ve tried everything from trainers to vets to behaviorists, but life with the dog is still a daily struggle – whether fear, reactivity or feeling like the dog runs the house instead of the humans.

If any of this sounds familiar, then you won’t want to miss this episode.

After struggling for 5 years with her own dog, Maya, Souha met a series of life-changing teachers and mentors.  These experiences led her to develop a philosophy to heal the relationship and strengthen the bond we have with our troubled dogs.

Souha explains to us her 3-stage method that she calls the Way of Life Method. This system is like hitting the “reset” button on your relationship with your dog – at any age and no matter how long your dog has been part of the family.

Souha’s Way of Life is a methodical approach to adjusting the expectations we have for our dogs and involves re-establishing our life and our home in a structured way that sets our dogs up for success.  This is a completely force-free and non-aversive methodology.

In Souha’s book, The Way of Life Method, she provides daily schedules, exercises and bonding activities intended to create the connection with your dog that you’ve always wanted but didn’t think was possible.

Souha & I discuss:

  • Her early life experiences in Lebanon and Abu Dhabi;

  • Getting her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior;

  • A vulnerable story about her first dog that didn’t make it into the book;

  • Meeting Maya and realizing this was going to be a challenge;

  • Everything Souha tried while working with Maya before changing her Way of Life;

  • Meeting her life-changing mentors and teachers;

  • The expectations we have of dogs in the 21st century;

  • About the Way of Life Method;

  • Common misconceptions about dog socialization and crate training;

  • How much do dogs have in common with wolves?

  • Souha’s favorite client success stories

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