Every Journey - Equine Integrative Coaching & Counseling, LLC

02/23/2026

Jude is feisty this morning ❄️🌦️⛄️

02/17/2026

Time to step forward!! Credit instagram

02/14/2026

Happy Pal-entine’s Day!! Had to re-share. These boys love each other💙💙

02/11/2026

“What is it you do with horses?” 🐴 🤔

Your Energy Never Lies — and horses know it.In this video, we explore how horses read human stress, why they’re masters of non-verbal communication, and how ...

02/04/2026

🐎 Horses regulate first. They don’t react first.

It’s something I notice every single day.

When something changes in the environment, horses don’t immediately panic.

They pause.
They feel.
They orient.

They check in with their bodies first.

Is this safe?
Do I need to move?
Or can I soften?

Only then do they respond.

It’s regulation before reaction.

And we’re exactly the same — we’ve just forgotten how.

So many of us try to think our way through life.
Push through.
Override the signals.
Tell ourselves to “just get on with it”.

But the nervous system doesn’t work like that.

Safety comes first.
Then clarity.
Then action.

Not the other way around.

This is why simply standing with a calm horse can change everything.

Their breathing slows.
Their heart rate steadies.
Their presence says: you’re safe here.

And our bodies remember how to do the same.

Not because they fixed us.
But because they showed us how to come back to ourselves.

Sometimes regulation isn’t something you force.

Sometimes it’s something you borrow
until you can hold it on your own. 🤍

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Have you ever noticed how different you feel around a settled horse?

02/01/2026

As we move into 1st February, something begins to shift.

Not suddenly.
Not dramatically.

But quietly — in the body.

The Snake has almost finished his work.
It asked you to shed, to soften, to let go of what had grown too tight. There's still a bit of time left ….

The Fire Horse doesn’t arrive to push you forward —
it arrives to return movement where it was lost.

You may notice it as restlessness.
A stirring in your belly.
A sense that staying still is no longer an option.

Not because you must do more —
but because life is ready to move again.

This isn’t about forcing change.
It’s about responding to readiness.

The body knows when the season has turned.

As February begins, ask yourself gently:
Where am I ready to move — even just one step?

The Fire Horse doesn’t ask for speed.
It asks for truth.

And truth always creates motion. 🔥🐎✨

01/24/2026

2016 January storm - Jackie & Ranger were ready for the blizzard. Stood outside the whole time🤦🏻‍♀️❄️⛄️

01/23/2026

01/15/2026

When a Horse Lets Go

A horse does not relax by accident.
Its body is built for alertness.
For flight.
For survival 🐎🤍

So when it exhales deeply beside you,
lets its neck soften,
and releases the tension it carries—
that is not rest.

That is surrender.

It is saying,
“For this moment, I do not need to be ready.”
“For this moment, I am safe.”

Trust like that is not loud.
It is profound.

01/13/2026

Morning Mantra: "How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.”

When someone treats you badly or talks about you behind your back, don't take it personally. It's says nothing about you but a whole lot about them.

Why is it we want to automatically think something is done because of who we are instead of who THEY are? You are not the one judging and being mean.

So let them. Don't react to something unless you know for certain it is being said or done on purpose. Then respond with curiosity as to why they feel this way. Communicate with the intention of understanding not retaliation.

No one can make you feel a certain way without your permission- so don't allow someone else's limited view of you change who you really are.



Image: Horses for the Spirit

01/13/2026

Grief doesn’t always look like tears.

Sometimes it looks like tiredness that doesn’t lift.
Like carrying on when something inside you has stopped moving. We have all experienced that
Like loving deeply — and having nowhere for that love to go.

We learn to hide grief well.
To function.
To stay useful.
To not make it uncomfortable for anyone else.

But grief lives in the body.
And the body remembers what the mind tries to move past.

Horses sense this without needing to know the details.
They meet the heaviness without asking us to explain it.
They don’t try to cheer us up or pull us forward.

They stay. They help us belong !
And in that staying, something softens.
Not because the grief disappears —
but because it is finally allowed to be held.

Nothing is wrong with you if grief still visits.
It comes back when there is enough safety to feel it.

And sometimes, being witnessed is the beginning of learning how to breathe around it again.