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How Horses Connect Us To The Natural World

Horse WisdomFebruary 28, 202634Views 0Likes 0Comments

The more I learn about veterinary chaplaincy and ecospirituality or wild churches, the more I realize something that I've always known. While the deities are important to me, and I have some, including Epona, Celtic horse goddess, that I work with, to me the bigger connection to the sacred is the outdoors and the wild.…

Can shedding happen too soon? (Horse Wisdom)

Horse WisdomFebruary 21, 202633Views 0Likes 0Comments

It happens every year. The days get longer and there's a rush of warmth, and I start to see the horses shedding. But just as soon as it begins, the weather cools and reminds us that winter will be here for another month or so. We have early narcissus flowers (daffodils) that often bloom around…

Speak Up For Your Needs (Horse Wisdom Edition)

Horse WisdomFebruary 14, 202642Views 0Likes 0Comments

It was raining this morning when I went out to do morning chores, for which I was thankful because we really needed the rain. One of our horses (Kitty Kash, aka the Diva) doesn't like to eat in the rain. One of the best investments I made was in feed buckets that hook over the…

The Power of a Tiny Drop (Horse Wisdom)

Horse WisdomJanuary 31, 202664Views 0Likes 0Comments

Hopefully this will be the last weekend of freezing weather for at least a week. I don't know I'm hearing rumors that the polar vortex might "slosh" (puke?) down into the lower 48 mid-February, but that's future me's problem. Today me is enjoying the power of a little drop of water. I've talked up my…

Somatic Work To Release Stress

Horse Wisdom, nervous system regulationJanuary 17, 202665Views 0Likes 0Comments

Horses instinctively know how to move stress and discomfort through their body. Of course this doesn't mean that we need to stop looking for discomfort or not treat them, but when they are in a stressful situation, such as dealing with a higher member of the herd pecking order, they will often use different movements…

Horse Vices, Horse Stims

Horse WisdomJanuary 3, 2026104Views 0Likes 0Comments

Horse vices are undesirable behavior in horses, and often are determined to be ways of coping with stress. In horses that are often stabled, cribbing (biting down on wood and sucking in air) and weaving are considered ways in which these bored or stressed horses cope with the stress. And studies have shown that horses…

Incorporating Horse Wisdom into Holistic Spiritual Care

Horse WisdomDecember 27, 202576Views 0Likes 0Comments

Part of nurturing the human-animal bond is incorporating the wisdom that these creatures share with us into our systems of holistic spiritual care. Remembering that holistic spiritual care is care for the whole being, all aspects and on all levels, then we can begin to look around us at the natural world and see how…

Why Horse Wisdom is Important

Horse WisdomDecember 13, 202596Views 0Likes 0Comments

There is wisdom to be found in the non-human world, and when we are looking to craft our own systems of spiritual care it is extremely helpful to look at those whose lives are not shaped by human-made systems and constructs, and whose lives can be harmed by those same systems and constructs. While many…

Systems of Care According to Lived Experience

Horse WisdomDecember 6, 2025124Views 0Likes 0Comments

We're about two weeks away from the winter solstice, but the horses' coats started getting longer back in October as the light began to quickly fade. Fortune always grows a coat like a teddy bear, long and fuzzy, perfect no doubt for those Iowa winters she spent before our move here about a dozen years…

The Horse’s Role in Spiritual Coaching

Horse WisdomNovember 22, 2025112Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've long called my horses my physical and occupational therapy. Let's be honest, they are often my emotional/mental health therapy too because of how being around them can really calm and reset my nervous system. I get that. And there are many good professionals doing work with horses in their practices. That's just not something…

Visible Spirituality

Horse WisdomOctober 25, 2025156Views 0Likes 0Comments

I spent some time with the senior mare this afternoon working on grooming her and replacing her regular fly mask for one that is in high vis orange. And as I was working with her, I thought about how this translates into horse wisdom, and how it is important to be visible. Here in the…

Horses and Spiritual Storytelling: Expectations

Horse WisdomOctober 18, 2025133Views 0Likes 0Comments

Horses are ingrained in our myths and legends. Whether it's Buchephalus, the horse ridden by Alexander the Great, the great racehorses Ruffian, Secretariat, Man o' War, and Seabiscuit, or even those from television like Mr. Ed or Trigger. Or Buck, the horse ridden by Ben Cartwright and after whom my mom named one of our…

Faith and Hay

Horse WisdomSeptember 20, 2025152Views 0Likes 0Comments

Mother Nature and horses have two things in common; they are subject to their own whims. In the case of Mother Nature, late summer and into fall has been rather dry here in the Ozarks and that meant I received the text I'd been dreading: my hay person would not have the bales I needed…

Shifting from Dominance to Kindness

Horse WisdomAugust 9, 2025311Views 0Likes 0Comments

Today is my heart horse's 26th birthday, and I've cherished all the years we've gotten to spend together, and I hope we'll spend a few more together too. When I started training her, there was a shift toward "natural" horsemanship. Clinicians such as Clinton Anderson were claiming they used natural training methods. I was quite…

What Horses Have In Common with Yoga and Reiki

Horse Wisdom, reiki, YogaAugust 2, 2025225Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've often talked about having a lot of tools in my toolbox to help people in uncovering their authentic selves through spiritual storytelling. Being an alchemist, I like to bring different things together to see how the energies work or how it feels. And the part of my mind that's still tied too much to…

Listening To Horses Without Deification

Horse Wisdom, storytellingJuly 12, 2025185Views 0Likes 0Comments

Recently an article came across my social media feed that talked about how the equine therapy industry has deified horses to the determent of honoring their unique personalities, behaviors, and rights as a sentient entity of their own. This mirrors some discussions that have been happening within the spirituality communities, namely the pagan one, who…