Horses are Healers

08/11/2025

I have told the story of Aladdin (left) and Jasmine many times but, for anyone who hasn’t heard it yet, I’ll tell it once again.

Jasmine and Aladdin met when they ended up in the kill pen - filled with horses to be shipped off to slaughter. The kill pen is a horrible place - horses are crammed together and terrified. Nobody cares about providing food, water or comfort because these horses are considered worthless. Poor Jasmine was also blind. Somehow, Aladdin sensed her quiet, terrified, helplessness and became her protector. At the last minute, they were miraculously rescued by ERN (Equine Rescue Network) who recognized their bond and kept them together at a foster home until they came to us.

Aladdin has one working eye and plenty of scars left from his years as a tripping horse (google it) and Jasmine is totally blind from uveitis and glaucoma. She also has some congenital dental disease that means she needs extra dental care. She has a scar on her face from where a tooth grew through her cheek before coming to us. Even though they’re both safe now, Aladdin remains completely devoted to Jasmine. They share a pasture with Nova (who is completely blind) and Oreo, the pony (who can see.)

The natural assumption is that Jasmine is dependent on Aladdin because he can see and she cannot but the truth is that it’s the opposite. I’ve always called Jasmine the xanax of her pasture because she gets along with everyone and is just a soothing presence. She gets around her pasture fine and has made Nova her BFF.

Jasmine loves Aladdin but doesn’t “need” him. Aladdin, on the other hand, adores his Jasmine and can’t stand to be apart from her. She can do anything she wants - including eating his food - and he lets her. He’s happy just to bask in her presence. Even I wouldn’t try to come between these two. They’re perfect together. 💝

06/10/2025

Horses are emotional sponges. If they can’t flee or fight (their natural coping strategies), the stress turns inward.

This is what I feel is happening in those moments of freeze.

What cannot be expressed, must be absorbed.

Horses, as prey animals, are deeply tuned to flight. It’s their natural form of processing overwhelm — movement is medicine for their nervous systems.

But in domestic life, this natural discharge is often blocked:

Fences replace open fields.

Halters and ropes limit choice.

Social dynamics may be fixed.

Humans may not recognize subtle signs of stress.

So the horse can’t flee, and often can’t fight (they’d be reprimanded). What’s left?

Freeze.

The third survival strategy, often misread as calm or obedience, is actually a state of nervous system shutdown — a silent scream.

The Freeze Response as a Philosophical State

Freeze is not just a nervous system condition — it’s a spiritual and existential posture.

It is:

A dimming of agency.

A withholding of essence.

A state of holding life at bay — not fully here, but not fully gone.

In this state, the horse is not being in the present. They're surviving it.

What is lost?

Vitality. Curiosity. Authentic expression. The very soulful aliveness that makes horses who they are.

Freeze is a kind of suspension of self, a quiet grief of not being able to be what you are: fluid, alert, and responsive.

Horses don’t just feel their own bodies — they feel ours. They read:

The invisible language of our posture and breath.

The underlying emotional current, even beneath the words.

The unspoken becomes, for them, a felt truth.

When a horse lives in chronic stress (whether their own or ours) and can't move it out, it doesn’t disappear — it moves inward:

Into the gut (ulcers, colic).

Into the fascia (tension patterns).

Into the behavior (aggression, withdrawal).

Into the soul (a loss of sparkle, curiosity, connection).

We say they are “sponges” not because they are passive absorbers, but because they are relational beings — deeply attuned to the field around them, designed to keep the herd (and now, us) safe through feeling everything.

The Path Back from Freeze

Coming out of freeze is not dramatic. It’s quiet.

A lick.

A sigh.

A blink.

A moment of curiosity.

The body begins to trust the present again.

Philosophically, this is a return to aliveness.

Not just survival, but existence with agency.

And that’s a sacred gift that we can give to our horses by becoming the guardian they need in these moments.

21/03/2025

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