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Press & Media Kit
Everything you need for interviews, podcast bookings, and editorial coverage of Dr. Erin Bannink and her book.
Biography, book overview, interview questions, key messages, & media contact
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Why This Story,
Why Now
More than 12 million pets are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States. The people who love them are expected to navigate one of the most emotionally and spiritually devastating experiences of their lives with almost no support for their inner world — only clinical information, statistics, and prognosis.
At the same time, a cultural reckoning is underway. Caregiver burnout, mental health, and the limits of purely clinical medicine are in the national conversation. Millions of high-achieving, deeply accomplished individuals are discovering that success has not delivered the fulfillment they were promised. The hunger is spiritual. The disconnection is real. Audiences are hungry for voices that bridge rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual dimensions of healing — without sacrificing credibility for either.
Dr. Erin Bannink is that voice. A board-certified oncologist who spent two decades inside some of the hardest rooms in veterinary medicine — then came to understand that something essential was missing from everything she'd been trained to offer. She now stands at the intersection of rigorous medicine and sacred healing. She holds both without apology, because she has witnessed firsthand what becomes possible when neither is abandoned.
This story speaks to:
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Pet parents who feel completely alone in an emotionally devastating experience
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High achievers who have everything yet feel unfulfilled and are ready to go deeper
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Caregivers and healthcare professionals grappling with compassion fatigue and burnout
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Anyone who has loved and lost an animal — and wondered why it shook them to their core
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Spiritual seekers who want a guide with the rare combination of lineage and lived experience
Conversation Starters
Sample interview questions
A selection for producers and hosts. Full question set available in the press kit download.
to open the conversation
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You're a board-certified veterinary oncologist. At what point did you decide that conventional medicine alone wasn't enough — and what happened when you said that out loud?
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What did twenty years in veterinary oncology teach you about the limits of medicine that no textbook ever could?
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At what point did you decide to stop keeping your two worlds separate?
On the book & pet cancer journey
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What does a pet cancer diagnosis actually do to a family — emotionally, practically, relationally?
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You write about Whole-Being Wellness for pets and their people. What does that mean for someone who just got a diagnosis two hours ago?
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What's the single most important thing pet parents do that makes their experience harder than it needs to be?
On healing, burnout & purpose
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What's the most important thing conventional approaches miss about healing and burnout?
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What would you say to a pet parent who has just been told there's nothing more that can be done?
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What would you say to someone who is drawn to this kind of work but afraid of what people will think?
AUTHOR PHOTOS
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Dr. Erin lecturing
Dr. Erin with her dog
The Book
So Your Pet Has Cancer...Now What?
An Integrative Veterinary Oncologist's Guide to Empower You on This Journey
AUTHOR
Dr. Erin Bannink, DVM, DACVIM (Oncology)
PUBLISHER
Golden Acorn Press
PUBLICATION DATE
August 25, 2026
FORWARD BY
Dr. Kendra Pope, DVM, DACVIM (Oncology)
About the book
So your pet has cancer — now what? You want to give your pet the best life possible after their diagnosis, and there is so much you can do. While you may feel overwhelmed, there is a roadmap to making the journey one of healing and growth — and it includes a magic bullet that can change everything for your pet: you. You are your pet's best resource.
Rooted in honoring the profound power of the human–animal bond and optimizing quality of life, this book helps you find clarity so you can take positive, grounded, and confident action. Using the Three Cornerstones of Whole-Being Wellness, Dr. Bannink helps you create a powerful foundation of healing reaching far beyond the physical into the realms of Soul and Spirit.
This book is so much more than a guide to cancer patient care: it is an invitation to walk the journey of life with your pet with greater care, compassion, and presence. You come to see that the life you
create for them becomes the life that transforms you. This is how they live forever: through you. You are the living legacy of your pet's love.
Ideal for: Pet parents navigating a cancer diagnosis. Integrative and holistic veterinary professionals. Anyone who has loved an animal and is seeking deeper meaning in the bond. Readers drawn to whole-being wellness, spirituality, and personal transformation.
QUICK FACTS
At a glance.
CREDENTIALS
DVM, DACVIM
(Oncology)
Grad. Diploma, Vet.
Chinese Herbal Medicine
CLINICAL PRACTICE
Integrative Oncology
Oakland Veterinary
Referral Services, Michigan
ACADEMIC ROLE
Faculty, College of Integrative Veterinary Therapies
International lecturer
FOUNDED
Divine PowerHouse Center
for Healing & Enlightenment
Rochester, Michigan
SPIRITUAL TRAINING
Spiritual Guide, Healer &
Teacher in the Hermetic lineage of King Salomon, Modern Mystery School International
NEW BOOK
So Your Pet Has Cancer...
Now What?
Golden Acorn Press
August 25, 2026
SHORT BIO (FOR PODCAST HOSTS AND EVENT ORGANIZERS)
Dr. Erin Bannink is a board-certified veterinary oncologist and integrative medicine practitioner with over 20 years of experience guiding pet families through cancer diagnoses. She is also a Spiritual Guide and metaphysical teacher in the ancient Hermetic Mystery School lineage of King Salomon, and the founder of Divine PowerHouse Center for Healing and Enlightenment in Rochester, Michigan. Her new book, So Your Pet Has Cancer... Now What?, uses the Three Cornerstones of Whole-Being Wellness to help pet parents transform one of life's most painful chapters into one of its most meaningful — honoring the deep power of the human-animal bond as a portal for growth, healing, and spiritual awakening.
INTERVIEW TOPICS
Dr. Erin speaks fluently on all of the following
Whether your audience is pet parents, veterinary professionals, integrative health practitioners, or people on a path of spiritual growth and personal transformation — Dr. Erin brings a rare combination of clinical credibility and deep spiritual wisdom to every conversation.
Integrative Veterinary Oncology
How combining conventional cancer treatment with acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, nutrition, and whole-
being wellness improves outcomes and quality of life for pets and their families.
The Human-Animal Bond as a Spiritual Portal
Why the love between a person and their animal is one of the most powerful and underutilized catalysts for personal transformation — and how a cancer diagnosis can become an unexpected teacher.
The Three Cornerstones of Whole-Being Wellness
A framework for healing that addresses body, soul, and spirit — going beyond physical treatment to support the emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of the cancer journey.
You Are Your Pet's Best Medicine
The science and spirit of why the pet parent's inner state — their peace, presence, and emotional regulation — is the most underutilized variable in their pet's health and quality of life.
Navigating Grief, Guilt & Fear
The most common emotional obstacles pet parents face at diagnosis — and practical, evidence-informed approaches to moving through them into clarity, confidence, and empowered action.
Ancient Spiritual Wisdom for Modern Healing
How the Mystery School lineage of King Salomon — a 3,000-year-old initiatory tradition — provides practical tools for personal transformation that go to the root of where people get stuck.
Bridging Science and Spirit
Why the separation between evidence-based medicine and spiritual wisdom is a false divide — and what becomes possible when a practitioner is fully fluent in both.
Burnout, Purpose & the Spiritual Dimension of High-Performance Careers
A conversation for veterinarians,
healthcare professionals and high-achievers: why external success does not create fulfillment, and how inner alignment changes everything.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Erin Bannink
DVM, DACVIM (Oncology)
Graduate Diploma, Veterinary Chinese Herbal Medicine — CIVT
Spiritual Guide, Healer & Metaphysical Teacher
Hermetic Lineage of King Salomon · Modern Mystery School International
Founder, Divine PowerHouse Center for Healing and Enlightenment
Dr. Erin Bannink has spent more than two decades sitting in exam rooms with pet parents on some of the hardest days of their lives. As a board-certified veterinary oncologist, she guided families through the fears and uncertainties that accompany a cancer diagnosis — and over time, she noticed something medicine alone could not explain. Some patients and their people found a different kind of peace. Others struggled not just with the diagnosis, but with the weight of fear, overwhelm, and disconnection. It became clear that healing was not just physical. It was emotional. It was spiritual. It was relational.
Already grounded in science through her training at Hope College and Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, she expanded her approach to include acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, earning a Graduate Diploma in Veterinary Chinese Herbal Medicine through the College of Integrative Veterinary Therapies. Today she practices Integrative Oncology at Oakland Veterinary Referral Services in Michigan, lecturing internationally on this integrative approach.
Driven by a desire to understand the deeper forces shaping human and animal experience, she followed a spiritual path many seekers know well — gathering wisdom from Christian and Native American traditions, Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism, yogic philosophy, and meditation — yet still sensing something essential was missing. That search led her to the Western Mystery School
tradition, an ancient initiatory lineage designed not just to inspire, but to transform. Today she is a Spiritual Guide, Healer, and Metaphysical Teacher in the Hermetic lineage of King Salomon, trained through the Modern Mystery School International.
What makes her work unique is her ability to bridge two worlds that are often kept separate: science and spirit. Her journey through a high-achieving medical career revealed a truth she now shares openly: external success alone does not create fulfillment. True healing — and true purpose — emerge when we bring all parts of ourselves into coherence. She founded Divine PowerHouse Center for Healing and Enlightenment to offer others the tools, initiations, and guidance to do exactly that.
MORE COMING SOON
Recent Conversations
Dr. Erin is currently booking podcast interviews and media features in connection with her August 2026 book launch. To pitch an appearance, contact admin@drerinbannink.com
The Evolving Practice Podcast
Episode 27: Growth through Cancer
December 2024
MEDIA INQUIRIES
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