Recovery

Brene Brown, a self-proclaimed “researcher/storyteller”, says that our ability to feel loved and accepted comes from having the belief that we are worthy of love and acceptance.  Huh?  Basically, we have to buy it.  If we don’t allow it to be true, it won’t be.  But how do we allow this to be true for us if we don’t feel it?

Stop the world; I want to get off!  This is the title of a musical I did when I was eighteen.  Many years later, however, the title remains very meaningful.

           “I need help”.  These three little words can be so hard for most of us to say.  We are often told to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” or “get over it”.  If it was that simple, no one would ever need to go to treatment.  We believe that we should be able to solve the problem on our own.  And then comes the shame.  We feel ashamed that, try as we might, we cannot.  The shame feeds the feeling that we are not good enough, not strong enough to solve the problem ourselves.  And

Increasingly horses are becoming trauma healers through the fast growing profession of equine assisted therapy. Trauma responses are the human mind’s attempt to cope with the unimaginable. In some survivors, trauma can produce post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with symptoms ranging from depression, anxiety, and drug and alcohol abuse to rage, dissociation and thoughts of suicide. These occur because the stress accompanying traumatic events demands coping strategies of the individual that far exceed their capabilities. Equine assisted therapy offers hope and encouragement for trauma survivors.