#healingwithhorses

Feeling Safe

Feeling safe sounds like such a simple thing. But for those of us who grew up in chaotic environments, perhaps with parents or caregivers...

What is Congruence and What Does it Have to Do with Horses?

I have seen it over and over again – someone goes into the roundpen with a horse and the horse totally ignores them. The person tries...

Sole Abscess - A Metaphor for Life?

I was surprised by the number of views to my original Instagram Reel of soaking Holly’s sore foot. For some reason that resonated with...

The Transformation of Diva - Final (?) Update

After a year and a half of trauma-informed horsemanship with Diva, I finally feel that we are at a place where most of the stored trauma...

Why are Emotions Important?

We live in a culture that values rationality and intellect over emotionality. Many of us grew up in families where expressing certain...

The Transformation of Diva - Update 4 Recognizing the Freeze Response

One of the tricky bits of being with a client is recognizing when the client is calm, or if they are actually in the freeze response. ...

To Be Curious, You Must Feel Safe . . . Whether a Horse or a Human

Much of what I learn about neuroscience and trauma recovery I get to see for real with my horses. After all, horses and humans have...

Dance Like No One is Watching

Dancing with a horse is the final activity of the Eponaquest Instructor apprenticeship. My dancing was a complete failure, as I...

The Transformation of Diva Update - The Beginnings of Connection

My first dressage coach used to say that, in order to train a horse, you needed to teach them the word first, then a sentence and finally...

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