Show Me The Way Equine Trauma Therapy
Show Me The Way Equine Trauma Therapy
Horse's need help too.
Show me the way services
My services come in many steps depending on the issue. So please take the time to read all three to get a better understanding each one before moving forward.
Trauma that came with the horse
Say you just bought a horse or rescued a horse. It seemed well at first, but them boom issues exploding cause already had issues. Well this is the single one on one I'll be building with the horse learning his triggers and why he or she is the way they are. Then slowly build some of a trust between the horse and I. Next step the friendship and teaching the horse ground rules without any cruel ways. Once the horse trusts me I will bring owner in to start slowly to build a relationship with horse too. Once a horse trusts a person they will trust who ever they bring with them. Just like us humans, it take's while to get to know someone,. It's the same for horses too.
Fixing trauma to find horse a home
Say you have a horse that you got stuck with by a boarder or just getting out of the horse thing. Even say the horse is just to much. Well I will come and work with the horse to get it to trust, and loveable even open to other people. Yes some horses are like us humans, we get hooked on one person and do not care to get to know anyone else. So I would come and work with the horse and when the time is right bring a few of my workers to enter act with it to let it see that other people are kind too.
Trauma that happened with horse and owner
Ok I know accidents happen, that's life. But do we have to be scared the rest of our lives because of trauma, NO. Is trauma hard to forget or can you forget it? Nope, our minds work on their own with out our control. Just like people saying stop thinking about it, well we don't think about it, we get triggers or flashbacks with out any warning. It is the same for a horse. Their trauma just sits there waiting for the right moment to pop out of the middle of no where. Even anything that brings up the memory of the cause of the trauma. So I would work with horse first then when horse is good, then work with owner and build each others confidence back. It is not that you both do not like each other, it is you both are unsure of if the situation memory will pop back up. You both need to feel that trust between you two to move further.
About Me
I am a women who suffers from trauma myself and have to deal with it everyday. I have PTSD and generalized anxiety for as long as I remember. Trauma is no joke and by ignoring it and thinking you can can hide it deep somewhere in you that its gone. Well you are wrong, it sits there and builds up till things start to bring the trauma back up to the surface. It can take control of your whole life. I am raising two Autistic sons and full guardianship of my sister who has same diagnosis as I do. Yes we have same diagnosis but that does not mean for the same reasons. I've got a lot of knowledge on trauma, not saying I know everything on it but know pretty much quite a bit. I got my first horse in 2011, he is a mustang from the BLM. But the women who goes and get's mustangs from the BLM and domesticates them for new homes. I got him from her. These mustangs are called wild, crazy, loco. No when they are in the wild they are normal, but when the BLM goes in and uses helicopters to chase these horses into corrals where these mustangs are cramped in and scared. When they are in these corrals these horses are scared and trampling each other and separating babies from their mothers. So with that they develop trauma, not born with it. So meeting my Mustang Casanova, we connected right away. Was it just we right away liked each other? NO, I believe we could feel we both suffer from trauma. Animals can't speak so they go off of our body language and emotions. Each horse I help along the way, I find has healed a part in me too. So please give your horse a chance and sit back and think what kind of life did it have before you got it. See trauma can come from past owners and not you. So give me a chance to help your horse to trust and bring you two closer together. Remember trauma is not always fixable, but it can be tolerable and workable if you have someone who understands you and works with you.
Horse's and Trauma
Don't be so quick to judge, step back and understand your horse.
Many horse's are and do suffer with and after effects of traumatic event's and get looked at as a horse with just a attitude or marked as untrained. I have seen people right away mark a horse as, naughty, bad, disrespectful or stupid. Behavior's like swaying, bucking, bolting, freezing, swaying, sudden reactions from seemingly nothing, chasing, ear pinned back and many more can be signs of something going on with your horse. You should give the horse the benefit of the doubt because the horse can not speak for it's self in our language. When you get a better understanding of each horse's history that it has experienced, you start to see why they act the way they do. Some time's you do not know their whole life's story.
This business is very important to me and not only me but the horse's and the owners to overcome their trauma and fear. I know personally how holding in that trauma in for years. All that holding in that trauma will build up and build up till later on it just starts leaking out. You can only hide your trauma for so long till it starts to overcome you and run your life. With my PTSD, and and bad trauma I have, I do not believe in harsh training or aggression, it takes patients, understanding, and most of all TRUST. All these horses need is a chance for someone to understand them and listen. Yes I said listen, like body language and emotion is a big way to understand. So give me the chance to help your horse or a rescue or simply a horse that people say is none fixable. They do not need fixed, they need understood and learning how to trust again. I do not believe in giving up, I call that weak.
"They help me as I help them."
