Bestselling author and internationally renowned animal psychologist and dog trainer Patricia McConnell “provides voice to those who can’t speak in phrases and provides expect fearful pets everywhere” (Temple Grandin) within this powerful and uplifting memoir about healing.

World-renowned as a source of science and soul, Patricia McConnell combines brilliant insights into canine behavior with heartwarming tales of her very own canines and their life around the farm. Today, she reveals it wasn’t just the about The Education of Will: A Shared Memoir of a Woman and Her Puppy dogs who had serious problems. For decades Dr. McConnell secretly grappled with her personal guilt and fear, which were rooted in the harrowing traumas of her youth.

Patricia is pressured to face her past by her love for a young Border Collie named Will, whose regular, unstable outbreaks of dread and fury shake Patricia to her core. In order to save Will out of this dangerous behavior, she must find her very own will to heal, and along the way find out that may power by itself is not more than enough.

Interweaving enlightening stories of her customers’ canines with tales of her deepening relationship with Will, that is a “compassionate accounts from the reclamation from the author’s life from abuse and pity. An uplifting tale of hope about how both canines and humans want ‘a sense that they are not really helpless victims’ (Kirkus Testimonials).