This is my third Patricia McConnell book and I’m still loving everything she writes. Where the first two were dog training books, this is, as stated, a memoir. It’s about her trauma and recovery and how she worked through it with the help of an equally anxious border collie pup.

McConnell is a superb writer, which is great when talking dog behavior and…hard to read when talking trauma. But the very fact that she wrote about my brain was telling, and I love her thoughts on dog training as it relates to recovery.

I got it from the library, or else I’d definitely put it on my dog training shelf.