Beyond Words: The Healing Power of Horses

Excerpts from Beyond Words: The Healing Power of Horses The space between words is where we live with horses. In the silence we are truly heard. ******* So much of our sadness our discontent our addictions and compulsions are driven by the emptiness we experience when without being aware of it we detach from our emotional selves. We often mistake this emptiness as boredom anxiety hunger and/or loneliness. Horses in their honesty and compassion help us to reconnect to ourselves to our humanness. ******* What I have come to believe is that no matter what orientation you bring to psychotherapy or what equine certification you achieve the one variable that has been shown to be critically important is the trusting respectful and compassionate relationship that develops between therapist and client; whether the therapist has two or four legs is irrelevant! ********** The goal of Beyond Words: The Healing Power of Horses is to connect the advances made in the treatment and understanding of mental health issues with the knowledge we have accrued through the years about the nature of horses. The key is to integrate the two professional worlds of equine specialists and psychotherapists so that each can appreciate communicate and work together to further enhance the practice of Equine Experiential Psychotherapy.