Sometimes it’s really hard to understand and deal with the darkness. It can feel like it is all around us; choking us and stealing our breath. Why do some people endure such deep and troubling pain and unrelenting anguish in this world? It can be easier to ignore the struggles around us and drown out the challenging questions in our minds. It is more comforting to pretend that there is not a small child being abused down the street or a young woman being raped several times a

“There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.” Speaking from experience I can honestly say that horses are one of the most therapeutic animals to work with. Without vocalization, horses are able to provide you with the comfort and security so many people seek during periods of hardships, insecurities, pain, and loss. That is why horses are a central and critical component of a ranch that seeks to address the traumatic experiences faced by surviv

For you created her inmost being; you knit her together in her mother’s womb.I praise you because she is fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Her frame was not hidden from you when she was made in the secret place, when she was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw her unformed body; all the days ordained for her were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious are your thoughts, toward her, O