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Distant Intuitive Horse Readings & Equine Sports Therapies (owner: Desiree Fossen)

10/04/2025

Ways to Help Prepare Your Horse’s Body for a Full Moon Deworming 🌿

As we get closer to the next full moon, a time when internal parasites are often more active, its a great time to focus not just on what product to use, but on supporting the horses body before deworming.

This extra care makes the process smoother, more effective, and much easier on their system.

Here’s a few ways to prep the body leading up to deworming

💧 Hydration & Electrolytes – The Foundation of Detox

Hydration is everything. A well-hydrated body can circulate nutrients, move lymph fluid, and flush waste far more efficiently. Double-checking water access, and offering a clean, balanced electrolyte to support cellular hydration — especially if the weather is fluctuating or they’re working hard.

🌀 Lymphatic Activation – Helping the Body Clear Waste

The lymphatic system is the body’s natural drainage network, and it doesn’t have a pump — it relies on movement and gentle stimulation. Incorporating light riding to keep the system flowing, as well as adding in lymphatic massage to help clear what the body is ready to release.

🌾 Digestive Prep & Fibre – “Sweeping the Gut”

Parasite removal is easier on the system when the digestive tract is moving well. A little extra fibre helps “sweep” the gut and supports the natural elimination process.

⭐️Consistent, Varied Movement – Circulation is Key

Daily turnout, slow hill work, and walking over varied terrain all boost circulation and gut motility. Movement is a powerful, natural way to support every detox system in the body — from liver and kidneys to lymph and digestion.

🩷Why It Matters
By focusing on hydration, lymph flow, digestion, and circulation before deworming, we’re not just targeting parasites — we’re supporting the horse’s entire internal ecosystem. That means less strain, better absorption, stronger immunity, and a smoother recovery.

This is the kind of whole-body approach that keeps our horses not just parasite-free, but vibrant and thriving all year long.

Every horse’s body requires different tools, products, and approaches to truly detox and receive a deworming effectively.

🍂Spring and fall are especially important-these seasons mark times of deep internal change. The body is not only shedding and releasing what it doesn’t want to carry into the winter months, but also gathering and building nutrient stores for the colder season ahead.

(Full Moon Is Monday Oct. 6th)

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09/27/2025

Did you know a distant animal reading can get to the root cause of the issues your horse is fighting? It can offer the clarity of what their unique body requires externally and internally to save you time, money, and hassle.

Unfortunately there is a lot of supplements on the market that have great ingredients in them on the label however the QUALITY of these ingredients and what the supplement is paired with like certain fillers can compensate and cause even bigger issues especially to gut health. Aside from gut health being so important for the well-being of a performing horse, this is the starting point for absorption an assimiltation for the body on a nutritional scale. It’s easy to come to conclusion when we see these great ingredients on the label an we stop being in question with what’s best for our horse individually when we hear collectively how that specific ingredient or brand worked for others around us, as well if that specific ingredient has worked in the past an we find it on the label of different branded supplements we immediently think it’s giving us the quality an potency it should or has in the past an that’s just not always the case.

There are really great companies an brands out there for equine supplements, ones that have devoted to lasting quality for the equine industry an there are some that just do not have the backing of great quality in their products, it still continues to surprise me because from the label it sounds great but when reading the animal an having them show the way their body would respond to the product, it’s showing the truth of the quality.

09/26/2025

Nervous system regulation can influence your horses timing, foot placment, rate, and decision making during a run. What does your horse require individually to regulate their own unique nervous system within their season of competing to perform best?

08/22/2025

“It’s hard to beat someone who’s always in question and willing to change direction at all times”

Are you willing to be in question with what’s best for your horses today even if it’s not what you’ve been taught? What if you could outcreate expierence with awareness?

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08/21/2025

What insight does your horse have for you today?

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08/20/2025

“The difference is in the details”

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08/18/2025

What insight does your horse have for you that would change how you train, ride, and compete with them?

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06/18/2025

What if your horse is mirroring something in your energy field they want you to shift and change?

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05/14/2025

"The horse will teach you, if you are willing to listen."
-Ray Hunt

05/13/2025

Animals are messengers. What are your animals trying to communicate to you today?

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05/12/2025

“The difference is in the details”

The nutritional needs your horse requires is an ever fluctuating dynamic that is in constant change because the body is in constant change, it is crucial that performance horses are approached as athletes and that the body is fueled to the highest degree. Hydration is one of the most important aspects that can fall short, with the conflicts of travel, internal an external stresses, etc. When the digestive system is in perfect balance, absorption of nutrients is easy an accessible as well as hydration becomes easier because the body spends less of its energy fighting to maintain balance in the assimilation process. With stress to the digestive system from an array of different sources such as parasites, bacteria, virus’s, imbalances to ph balance, fillers an artificial ingredients that sneak in to equine supplements that can leave the intestinal lining beat up or coated an blocking full absorption, theres no doubt that gut health has been on the rise of awareness for performance horses for awhile. A product that works great for one horse can be toxic to the next. Great quality hay is only as beneficial as the horses digestive system is able to break it down efficiently, if the digestive system lacks or is limited in the break down process, great quality feed can be toxic for the animal because it is “undigested food” in the system. This leads to many different approaches of maintaining good gut health for the horse by ensuring ther liver is cleansed in seasons, their digestive enzymes are built up and maintained, avoiding many different fillers an low quality supplements that can bog down the liver, seasonal deworming paired with intestinal clean up, etc.

The same minerals an vitamins can be what two horses require but the form each horse requires it in (liquid, paste, herb, loose mineral, different brands, different density, quality, & amount through durations of competing an training) can change the entire system as a whole. Each body absorbs differently.

If maintaining balance an homeostasis in the body of your horse was the main focus, how much more ease could they have with endurance an longevity when standing the tests of stress as an athlete? How far can these horses really extent with their own talents an abilities without the fuel for their future?

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