Equine Therapy – Therapeutic Horse Riding

Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1368

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Guests:: Charlie Jenks, Founder Connecting Veterans with Horses Jean Kvamme Center for Adaptive Riding

To heal our broken bodies, frazzled nerves and confused minds, we Americans take drugs, and we take lots of them.  But what if we could be healed by horse?

Now, had it not been for the fact that I was once healed by horse, I might have trouble taking the notion seriously.

But I was once healed by horse.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Equine Therapy – Healed by Horse

Way back then I was an inner-city, rabble-rousing community-organizer, things got out of hand and just quit making sense.  There were a lot of confusion cures available on the streets in those days, as there are today, but none of them appealed, and so I went home to Montana and took a job on a ranch as a hired-hand.

That ranch filled my days with hard physical and mental labor.  I ate hungrily of the ranch meals and slept the deep sleep of work done well.  The big reward, however, came at the end of my work day.  After the evening meal, I would saddle up a favorite quarter-horse gelding for a ride out into the lingering twilight of those great big prairie skies.

Though the horse and I never talked much, something must have been communicated because things began making sense again.  After the season was over, I returned to my big city life, healed by horse.

Equine therapy is now claimed to be an effective therapy for physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual affilictions, including attention-deficit, autism, conduct and dissociative disorders, dementia, post-traumatic stress and many other related disorders.  And so we ask: How can one be healed by horse?

Leave a comment below: Do you think a horse could help you sleep through the night?

Tune in here, for the syndicated Michael Olson Food Chain Radio Show #1368 July  27, 2024 Saturday 9AM Pacific

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