15/12/2025
An earlier angry horse turned peaceful after his treatment, if a bit wet! 😊. We're working through layers of trauma with this one and it was lovely to see him so peaceful, his eyes soft and his ears relaxed.
Free to roam in the yard where I was working he regularly wandered off to process the shifts in his body, but towards the end he came and very deliberaty stood right beside me, his head next to my shoulder. I had already worked with his thorax and sternum where the physical trauma had occurred, as well as with the kidneys, the respiratory diaphragm and the psoas muscle, releasing stress and tension held there. Now, he was clearly indicating that he wanted me to work with his head. Maybe he was now ready to make the connection between the physical and the mental, which would be necessary to break down any emotional connections tied to the trauma and thus begin to reduce the possibility of retraumatisation.
I stood still and tuned in energetically with him, nothing was required of me apart from just holding the space, the safe space, in which he could continue to heal himself. And this he did, his eyes soft and reflected inwards, his ears twitching, moving to reflect shifts in his head and in his body, and then he looked at peace, for this moment at least.
Release of a massive trauma takes time, step-by-little-step sometimes. But for us therapists every little step forwards in this process is met with joy, even though for owners it can sometimes be difficult having to revisit something that they had hoped had gone away. Trauma wraps the body and the mind up in layers, each layer then requiring an additional proof of safety before it will let go. Today, I believe another layer was unwrapped for this horse. 😊ðŸ«
