Saturday, April 5th, 2008...6:59 am
Healing with horses - severe clinical depression
At the last clinic at Tanjil South, ‘cos of late cancellations, we took in at the last minute, a young lady who was suffering from really severe clinical depression for a healing with horses program running at the same time as our Spirit of Horse clinic. As you may be aware, I’ve worked with lots of people with depression in my alternative therapy clinic. We also brought the very talented “healer” and all round good horsewoman and dear friend, Sheila Angeloni, in to work one on one with her.
It was young Boot n Scoot our 4 year old hand reared orphan foal that chose her to work with (and yes I did notice what I said - he was MOST insistant!) This girl didn’t know the back end of a horse from the front, only came on her friend’s recommendation as an alternative to imminent hospitalization.
2 Comments
May 6th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
What a great story of a great happening. Initially I was looking for ideas on dealing with horse depression having just put down one of my two kids out in the pasture. The wisdom and insightfullness of my remaining friend shall be no doubt healing me more than I can ever heal him.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
A very touching story (brought tears to my eyes), but opens up new understanding of what horses are capable of, how much they understand us…..once we can help them stay in their comfort zone around humans! What a motivation to learn to horse “speak”.
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