Meet Jeff Feinman

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jeff Feinman a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Jeff, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

Resilience, for me, grew out of necessity. In 1975 after flying head over heels on a bicycle, I started having neurological symptoms which grew in frequency and which my family started calling “attacks” by my body. At that time there was no conventional diagnosis or approach that could help me. That moment, and the decades that followed, forced me inward — and that’s when everything changed. Instead of reacting with fear or frustration, I began practicing what I now call the L.A.T. framework: Listen, Accept, Trust. I started listening deeply to my body, accepting its symptoms not as enemies but as signals, and ultimately, trusting in the universal laws of healing — the same ones I now apply in helping animals heal through the Path to Pet Wellness.
Symptoms are not mistakes. They’re messengers. Learning to see them as part of a larger energetic pattern — not something to suppress or override — helped me move from surviving to thriving. I’ve come to believe that this kind of resilience is available to anyone, human or animal, when we stop trying to fight the body and instead reconnect to its innate wisdom.
My own healing became the training ground for how I now support pet parents: by teaching them how to shift from fear to curiosity, and from reaction to trust. That shift is where real resilience — and real healing — begins.
BTW- A brilliant neurologist at Columbia University finally was able to reach a diagnosis and explain all of my symptoms in 2010, 35 years after the onset of symptoms.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I’m a veterinarian and molecular biologist who founded Holistic Actions!, an education and community platform that helps pet parents move beyond fear-based, symptom-focused care to something more empowering, connected, and healing.
What we teach is based on the Path to Pet Wellness framework — a holistic roadmap for understanding and improving health by shifting from “what’s wrong” to “what’s needed.” We help people learn how to tune into early subtle signs from their pets (like changes in BEAM = behavior, energy, appetite, and mood), how to recognize and reduce the underlying energetic susceptibility to dis-ease with veterinary homeopathy, and how to make thoughtful, holistic, individualized decisions.
What makes this work so special to me is seeing people transform from worried pet owners into confident pet guardians who feel equipped to support their animals’ well-being — physically, emotionally, and energetically. It’s not just about treating disease; it’s about cultivating vitality and a deep relationship with your animal companion.
What’s new and exciting right now is the upcoming release of my book, Path to Pet Wellness. It brings together decades of experience into a practical, inspiring guide for anyone who wants to partner with their pets in healing — not just fixing.
At its core, Holistic Actions! is about love as a healing energy, agency, and trust — in nature, in our pets, and in ourselves.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

First is curiosity. I’ve always questioned the status quo, especially when it comes to health. That drive to explore beyond conventional answers led me to discover the deeper patterns behind illness and wellness, both in people and animals.

Second is realizing that symptoms aren’t just random or inconvenient problems to eliminate — they’re intelligent expressions of the body’s effort to restore balance. In both people and pets, symptoms reflect an underlying energetic imbalance, not just a physical one. They’re signals from the vital force — the invisible intelligence within all living beings — pointing us toward what needs attention.
In the Path to Pet Wellness, I teach that healing doesn’t happen by eliminating and suppressing symptoms but by understanding them. When we view symptoms as purposeful expressions of internal disharmony, we can better support true healing rather than chase temporary relief.
This insight completely changed how I practice veterinary medicine and how I live my own life. Instead of reacting to symptoms, I now welcome them as messengers. That mindset shift creates space for healing to unfold — not just on the surface, but at a much deeper level.
Third is communication with animals, nature and spirit. Learning to listen deeply to what pets are showing us, often before any diagnosis, has become a core part of the Path to Pet Wellness framework. It’s a skill I now help others develop through our courses and community so they can truly partner with their animals in healing. And when you start trusting the body’s signals and aligning with nature’s rhythms, you unlock real resilience. Pets already know how to heal. Our job is to support that process, not override it.

Advice for those early in their journey?
Start with curiosity. Ask, “What is this symptom trying to show me?” instead of “How do I make it go away?”
Keep a journal. Track changes in your pet’s BEAM to build your awareness and confidence.
Consider adding veterinary homeopathy or another energetic method of re-balancing the vital force to decrease any abnormal symptom.
And most of all — surround yourself with people, tools, and information that empower rather than overwhelm.
Healing is a process. It’s not linear. But it’s always possible — especially when we learn to listen and respond with compassion.

Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?

When I turned 50, I genuinely didn’t expect to reach my 60s. Chronic symptoms, fatigue, and a lingering sense of disconnection from my own body made the future feel uncertain. But now — in my 60s — I’m experiencing better BEAM (Behavior, Energy, Appetite, Mood) and quality of life than I ever thought possible.

This transformation didn’t happen by accident. It came through living what I now teach: a Path to Pet Wellness rooted in resilience, energetic balance, and trust in the healing potential of the body — animal or human.

So if I had only one more decade to live, I’d spend it exactly as I am now — with even more urgency and love. I’d devote myself to helping every animal guardian discover this Path. Not just to help their pets heal, but to experience for themselves the profound shifts that come from truly listening, accepting, and working in partnership with nature.

And I would channel everything I’ve learned — from molecular biology to homeopathy to lived experience — into reshaping veterinary education. One of my deepest goals is to help bring a framework of resilience, energy-based healing, and individualized care into veterinary school curricula. Because when future vets understand the body not as a machine to fix but as a dynamic, energetic system to support, everything changes — for the animals, the guardians, and the profession itself.

That’s how I’d spend my last decade. Helping awaken a new generation of pet parents, practitioners, and healers to what’s truly possible — because I’ve lived it and see it in my practice and at Holistic Actions!

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