It is our relationship with others who experience us in our wholeness, our
unique and sometimes messy brilliance, who inspire us to want to live a life
and be alive in our authenticity that changes not only our own lives, but the
lives of others.
Horses are not unlike humans, we manifest positive and negative behavioral
patterns based on our life experiences. The horses I adopted, Montana,
Homer and April, were no exception and they challenged everything I
thought I knew about horses and myself. I had to learn to love myself,
really love myself, before I could understand how to be healthy in any
relationships with others. The horses started me on an unexpected
mind-body-spirit life awakening. As my awareness expanded, my perception
of myself and how I related to everything in my life began to shift. I believe
that our lives and the quality of our relationships are a reflection of our
relationship with our selves. My horses kept calling me to step into my
authenticity, the wild Montana spirit of a girl, with a soul connection to
nature and a passion for supporting humans, horses and horse owners.
I am a warrior voice for mutuality and for the horse to be understood as a
horse; a powerful, cooperative, social-bond oriented, sentient being who
has so much to teach us about those qualities in ourselves.
Very few of the horses, or humans for that matter, who come into our lives
are free of the consequences of conforming to a human world. A world
where most people don’t stop to consider and understand horses, or each
other, as sentient, conscious, cognitive, social bond oriented mammals.
Humans are that kind of mammal too. Every horse who has found their way
to our ranch has needed only to be seen for who they are: a social being and
an individual with a past that can play out in the present until they have
healed what was hurt in their relational journey. The remarkable thing
about helping horses reconnect with their authentic self-expression is how
much we learn about reconnecting with our own in the process.
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