The greatest moment of her life was becoming a mother, and the greatest shock was also becoming a mother—because of the challenges Philip was born with. Challenges that she has since transformed into strengths.

Most people have experienced or felt something they cannot explain with scientific evidence, and there is a saying that more exists between heaven and earth than we humans understand. Some people can communicate with the deceased, while others can predict events before they happen.

Animal communicator Ditte Young believes we all can sense and feel things that cannot be proven, provided we, like her, stay in touch with our expanded sensory awareness and empathetic abilities.

For her, truth is based on feedback. When the people she helps recognize what she communicates, she believes there must be some truth to what we cannot see or prove.

Ditte Young is an animal communicator, which means that she is often called upon when people want to understand their horses better. She is not a horse enthusiast herself. In fact, she is somewhat nervous around large animals, and initially she was also very skeptical about working with animal telepathy. However, her experiences have shown her that she can help both animals and people.

I Have Always Felt It

Ever since Ditte was very young, she has been sensitive to emotions never spoken aloud but still present. Whenever she was surrounded by many people, she quickly became overwhelmed because she could sense their energies. Ditte remembers these feelings as far back as age four, and she wondered whether they were simply products of her imagination.

“The first experience that frightened me happened in elementary school. I looked at a little boy on the bus and thought, ‘He’s going to fall now,’ and then he fell.”

Ditte became frightened because she did not know whether she had somehow caused the boy to fall or had simply predicted it. Later, when her girlfriends talked about boys, Ditte knew whether their relationships would last. She explains that she could picture her friends in the future, with or without their boyfriends, and therefore knew whether their relationships would continue. But Ditte never told anyone.

Her Career Began in a Completely Different Place

After elementary school, Ditte completed an upper-secondary education focused on languages and subsequently became a team leader in Telia’s administration department. She felt that she needed additional business and economics qualifications, so she supplemented her education with a one-year business program.

For several years, Ditte worked as a production coordinator at a production company that produced television programs for TV3. She subsequently worked at DR’s TV news division and as a manager for a rock band.

After graduating from high school, Ditte decided she wanted to put an end to the uncontrollable signals and messages she constantly received. She wanted to learn how to shut out the many impressions and control her ability.

“It was incredibly difficult for me to attend social gatherings. I could sense people’s concerns about divorce, infertility, affairs, and so on. The messages came through with an intensity a hundred thousand times stronger than the feeling you get when a friend tells you a story that brings tears to your eyes. Sometimes I had my feelings confirmed when people talked about the very thoughts I had sensed.”

Following a friend’s recommendation, Ditte enrolled in a school for clairvoyance. At the school, she learned to close her senses when necessary and open them more fully when helping others. While continuing her work as a production coordinator, she gradually began working as a clairvoyant.

Over time, she became better at organizing and interpreting the details of the messages she believed she was receiving. Just as a real estate agent might be asked at a party to assess the value of a house, Ditte often encountered people who wanted her to see or sense something for them.

Eventually, she decided that she no longer wanted to do this. She needed to take care of herself.

Previously, the powerful messages could overwhelm her and bring tears to her eyes. Today, she has learned to move through society differently by shutting down her abilities when she is not working. She subsequently completed a four-year education in body psychotherapy and psychotherapy and established herself as a stress consultant and family therapist alongside her work in the television industry.

Philip Changes Everything

In 2008, Ditte was on maternity leave. She gave birth to her son Philip, who was born blind and had severe autism, and this became the turning point that pushed her toward life as a self-employed professional. Philip’s special needs meant that she could not return to her regular job.

She needed a daily routine that could accommodate his needs. Ditte therefore decided to become self-employed full-time, working with clairvoyance and therapy, which had previously been a secondary occupation.

“I was terrified of taking the leap and becoming self-employed full-time. The entire world was suffering through the financial crisis, and the prospect of being self-employed, without the security of a fixed salary, vacation pay, or paid sick leave, made me extremely nervous,” Ditte recalls.

Today, she’s glad she took the leap.

Although people weren’t spending money freely during the financial crisis, the situation helped Ditte get off to a good start. She explains that people were willing to invest in protecting their personal lives from falling apart. Among other things, they feared having to take sick leave. Ditte therefore helped many people who were already on stress-related sick leave return to work.

Through her professional network, colleagues, and business advisers, Ditte’s company grew. She gained clients she believes she never would have reached if she had worked entirely on her own. At first, she had to prove what she could do as a clairvoyant, animal communicator, and therapist. She encountered particular resistance in her work with animals because the field was difficult for many animal owners to understand.

“If animal owners are going to acknowledge that it is possible to communicate with animals, they also have to examine their own responsibility for their animals’ well-being. Some of the people I help, and have helped, are genuinely afraid of what their animals might tell me.”

A Special Ability to Communicate with Animals

During her training as a clairvoyant, Ditte was required to practice with 60 people. One day, while speaking with her teacher, she learned she could communicate with animals. At first, Ditte shook her head. She had never owned animals, and they had never interested her. Nevertheless, she became curious. She arranged to meet a fellow student at the school to look at a photograph of the student’s cat. This was when Ditte first experienced what she interpreted as telepathic communication with an animal.

“While we were sitting there looking at the photograph of the cat, images of another location began appearing in my mind. I assumed it was the place where the cat was staying. The cat also showed me images of a staircase, a white kitchen, wide, light-colored floorboards, large windowpanes, red cushions on a sofa, and a garden. Eventually, I also began to smell cinnamon.”

Ditte’s fellow student laughed when she heard about the cinnamon smell. She used a lot of cinnamon in her cooking, and the house was exactly as Ditte had described. The student’s cat had been missing. When Ditte asked when it would return, she saw the word Thursday. The cat returned home two weeks later, on precisely the Thursday Ditte had predicted. At the time, the experience gave Ditte goosebumps.

Since then, Ditte has continued working with animal telepathy and made it her professional trademark.

“The best thing about my work is helping animals become understood. Seeing how a dominant horse forces its owner to develop leadership skills is absolutely fantastic,” Ditte says in a gentle voice.

A Lonely Ability

Ditte’s unusual ability sometimes makes life lonely for her. Her friends have always listened to her and given her space, but they have never fully understood what she was talking about because they have not experienced it themselves. As a result, Ditte sometimes feels very alone with her special abilities.

“I often feel lonely when I’m around ordinary people who are not in the same place as I am. My vow of confidentiality also means that I cannot share my day with anyone, so I am often very much alone in my work. I meet one person after another and help one horse and rider after another, but afterward, I am the only one who gets into my car or goes to lunch alone.”

“Thankfully, I have good professional collaborators with whom I can discuss our respective fields, including across different industries,” Ditte explains.

Sometimes Ditte meets people who look frightened when she tells them what she does for a living and ask whether she can read their thoughts. She does not do that, because it requires considerable concentration. She admits that sometimes she feels like saying she works as a flight attendant or in another profession people recognize.

“Telepathy can be compared to reading a 350-page book upside down, because you have to use a different part of your brain. I have to go deep within myself and feel every fiber, cell, and muscle in my body while constantly seeing something in front of me that isn’t physically there. It is extremely exhausting, and when I have time off, I simply don’t have the energy for anything else. I often isolate myself, which comes at a social cost,” Ditte explains.

She spends a lot of time alone recovering so she can keep helping people and animals.

More People Like Ditte in the Future

Word of mouth brings Ditte new clients. However, a DR2 documentary with Lasse Spang Olsen about people with unusual abilities generated so much work that she couldn’t keep up with demand.

“Everyone wanted access to my ability to communicate with animals, and I had to leave Denmark to get away and catch my breath. Even today, maintaining a balance is difficult because so many people need help, and there are only 24 hours in a day,” Ditte concludes.

She has trained seven consultants to follow in her footsteps, and more are on their way. Her hope for the future is that one day it will be just as normal to ask a horse how it feels through an animal communicator as it is today to use a chiropractor.