Jen Taylor-O’Connor opens up about her research on animal communication and how it helped her heal from trauma Alexandra Schonfeld is a staff editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Taylor-O’Connor: It’s awful, but when you lose a pet, the world sees it like you’ve lost maybe a quarter of a human, or a half of a human. But it’s not really, it’s like the same thing as losing a ...

Jen Taylor-O’Connor opens up about her research on animal communication and how it helped her heal from trauma Jen Taylor-O’Connor opens up about her research in animal communication and how parrots ...

Ellie the parrot and Jen Taylor-O'Connor. Jen Taylor-O’Connor grew up in what she calls a “garden variety Christian” home, though things changed when her family enrolled her in the Institute in Basic ...