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Incorporating Horse Wisdom into Holistic Spiritual Care

Horse Wisdom2 days ago9Views 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, 202526Views 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, 202549Views 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, 202537Views 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, 202575Views 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, 202560Views 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, 202587Views 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, 2025228Views 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, 2025151Views 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, 2025115Views 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…

Horse Wisdom Tells Us Hurt Horses Hoard Food

Horse WisdomJuly 5, 202591Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've been reading a lot of Sallie McFague's work. She was an environmental theologian and her work on the Models of God is important, dare I say vital, to my thesis. In her work she talks about those who choose to hold onto the monarchic, parental authority model of God, who see of themselves the…

Protecting Your Space With Horse Wisdom

Horse Wisdom, my philosophyJune 21, 2025133Views 0Likes 0Comments

I walk among the herd to gently guide senior mare to the shed so she can have her leisurely, "gooshy" lunch, as I call it, of soaked senior pellets, soaked beet pulp shreads (We really need Unbeetable Feeds to sponsor us!), and some supplements. It's our noon-ish ritual. I go in the house, take care…

Horses Remind Us About Community Care

Horse WisdomJune 14, 2025170Views 0Likes 0Comments

The days are becoming longer so when I go out to visit the horses, often around noon to give senior heart mare her lunch, I'll find the sacred herd under one of their favorite trees standing nose-to-tail so that when one swishes flies, it'll also take care of the flies that might land on the…

Easy Keepers Need Support Too

Horse WisdomMay 17, 2025161Views 0Likes 0Comments

Within the neurodivergent community there is a lot of talk about high support and low support needs with the implication that there is a hierarchy of severity for neurodivergent brains, rather than a broad spectrum. I've made it clear I'm not a fan of the high support-low support dichotomy. It further alienates those who were…

Regulating The Nervous System Takes Time

Horse Wisdom, SafetyMay 10, 2025107Views 0Likes 0Comments

When you purchase a horse from a kill pen there often isn't much history that goes along with them. When I adopted Holly, I was told that she was in foal (She wasn't, just a big mare.) and that she had worked in a feedlot pushing cattle. I have my suspicions on her breed (Probably…

Finding Safety in Story and Herd

Horse Wisdom, re-story-ation, SafetyMay 3, 2025114Views 0Likes 0Comments

A herd of horses doesn't sleep all at once. Horses need to lay flat to get deep, restful REM sleep and this can take place in short increments (like 15-30 minutes) a few times a day. They also can rest by locking their knees and standing, and they do this for 5-7 hours a day.…