Debs Carling lives in a cottage on a quiet 50-acre farm in rural Dooralong Valley, NSW, Australia.

In 2019, after many years as a full time Commercial Helicopter Pilot, she retired from flying to pursue a more peaceful path as a writer. Her office at the farm sits next to a large dam full of water lilies, which is frequented by horses as they come in from their paddocks for a drink throughout the day. As she writes, she looks out over a vista of green rolling hills, scattered with mobs of wild kangaroos, herds of wild deer, with a wonderful array of wild birds flying freely in from the surrounding ‘Olney State Forest’. This glorious location is where she is most creatively inspired. She has four published books: ‘BLISS’, ‘BLISS TWO,’ ‘The wisdom of Frank the goat man’, and 'The wisdom of Frank the goat man 2'.

Debs is driven to help people deepen their connection with their own animals. Her Debs Carling-ANIMAL CONNECTIONS 1:1 sessions have helped many people and their animals develop a deeper bond and level of communication between each other.  A technique that she developed with the help of the twelve horses at the farm, most of them rescues. Due to their need for emotional healing, she spent many hours helping and supporting them overcome and work through past issues caused by previous misunderstandings, miscommunications, and fearful encounters with humans. Debs discovered that by simply standing peacefully with the individual horses, with no expectations or demands upon them that they were communicating gratitude towards her. By simply holding a peaceful space for them whilst in a low thinking state, they automatically emulated it and were emotionally lifted and supported. She could see that they then had the astonishing ability to self-heal and self-correct behavioural issues when they were in this new stress-free zone. They also were freely opening up and communicating with her as the trust built within this space and she could hear, feel and perceive their needs via this conversation.

Of all the many horses she’s encountered, it was an old rescue horse called ‘Duke’, (FREE PDF- The incredible story of Duke and Debs) who turned out to be Debs’ greatest teacher. He taught her how horses think, act, react, and communicate. In fact, this, their story, became the stimulus and inspiration for her series of 5 books entitled: ‘The wisdom of Frank the goat man’.

How to best describe Debs? When you meet her, you instantly feel her warmth and friendliness. One of her clients sums her up perfectly:

‘The lingering characteristic that you are left with when you meet Debs is her interest in you, her love of life, her energy and absolute passion for what she is engaged in. You will notice your animals watching and follow her and connecting with her the minute she walks on your property, silently conversing with her. She is innately happy, and a very curiously peaceful person, with an infectious sunny disposition! One can't help but be drawn into her sphere!’

Colleen Heard