I find and release blockages and trapped trauma in the body and aid it in letting go of the pain cau A bit about me:
I have spent my whole life around horses.
Absolute Truth Holistic Care is owned and operated by Lou Reid. Growing up in Gisborne and being born into two farming families. One from Te Karaka and the other from Rangitukia. I was lucky enough to be on a horse before I could walk and it was just a natural progression of my life to be around them. I rode horses on the family farm most of my life and when I was 10 years old my parents bought me my own horse. I rode in local sports and ribbon days in Gisborne growing up and rode until I was 24 years old when I had my first child and put horse riding and being around horses second to raising my children. After raising children for 10 years I brought horses back into our lives and from that point I have endeavoured to make horses a very large part of my daily life. Over the past few years I have attended local ribbon days, inhand shows, labour days shows, endurance rides and Le Trec days and have acquired quite a wall of ribbons for my riding efforts. I have always had a natural healing ability with horses where I can feel their pain, where and the cause. After attending a foundation course for Flinchlock release therapy I allowed this spiritual side of me to heighten to a level that I have spent the past decade learning about myself and fine tuning my ability to heal horses, humans and other animals. I teach an afterschool and weekend horsemanship programme. I have also reached my 20 year vision and goal and now offer sessions for mental unwellness equine facilitated healing for both adults and children. I also provide one on one horsemanship and riding. I am currently studying to become a certified riding instructor. My Qualifications:
* Bachelor Degree in ECE, Registered
* Diploma in Comprehensive Nursing, Registered
*Mauri Ora Cultural Competency and Te Tiriti O Waitangi...Life Force, To be Alive, The Treaty Of Waitangi
* Mahi Ora...Your Life's Work
*National Certificate in Employment Skills
* Certificate in Access Bars
* Certificate in Hearing Voices...Let's Talk
* Engaging Pasifika Cultural Competency
* Certificate in Equine Foundation Course
for Flinchlock release therapy
* Certificate in Dromgool horsemanship journey to mastery
* Equine care and handling Level 3
29/09/2025
I personally don't have this problem but I've met a lot of young adults who do this and certainly have met middle aged and older adults who do it.
When did mothers go from being the backbone of the family, loved, respected and praised to being called narcissistic, toxic, shaming her, dragging her name through the mud and being cut off?
Society has glorified and condoned adults blaming their mothers instead of facing their own pain and fixing their own behaviour. It's become easy and "trendy" to blame your mother or even your father.
It might get you sympathy but that woman raised you, loved you, sacrificed everything she could for you and you just treat her like trash. While you're playing the victim getting sympathy she's cut off from her grandchildren and being ignored by her children she gave everything too.
If you can blame your mum when she was a good mum then you will blame everyone else in your life instead of taking responsibility and accountability for your own pain and behaviour. That makes you the narcissist. That makes you the toxic person. You should be the one ashamed.
Some children are absolutely exposed to horrific neglect, abuse, abandonment and are never raised in love or sacrificed for but they're not the ones seeking sympathy or sorrow or pity or for anyone to condone blaming their mother. All they want is empathy and support to be able to face and fix themselves.
Only those raised by good mothers looking for attention create a sympathy scenario because their trauma isn't real. I think it takes a great coward to blame a good mother for your adult behaviour.
28/09/2025
Today's Hui was a doozy and I loved this clarification and will never view it any differently ever again.
For years all I ever heard from people was that a Spiritually gifted person should not be charging for their services or for the use of their gifts which results in gifted people being flogged, used, abused, controlled and manipulated. So the only way to stop this is to absolutely not pay a Spiritually gifted person for their gifts.
Why?
You're not actually paying me for my knowledge or information I gain on your behalf talking to spiritual guides or for the hands on healing I give you or the facilitated horse connection you may need for self reflection. You're not paying for that. I actually give that freely, openly and willingly. What you're paying me for is my time. My time is valuable and what you pay me to spend on you. Time and attention is the currency of the universe. You spend time and pay attention. Money is not real and does not exist in the spirit realm but what does is time and once spent you can never get it back. You pay me to take the time out of my life to sit with you and during that time I will freely share my knowledge and gifts with you.
This also matters in my horse services. You pay me to spend my time with you and I will freely, willingly and openly share my knowledge with you during my time you have booked and paid for. You're buying my time and what happens during that time I give freely.
My time is precious to me. I've learnt to value it more now through this limited time we actually spend here as humans. That time is finite. It begins and ends abruptly. You're paying for me to take time out of my life to give to you which is no different to an employer paying me to be at their business to meet their business needs during an agreed time period they pay for.
If I invite you into my timeline to share that time with you then I am saying to the spiritual realm that I spend this time and pay this attention on our behalf during this time. Like taking you out for lunch on me. If you don't take the opportunity or you waste my time then I'm less inclined to continue to invite you into my timeline where I'm willingly spending my time on us knowing it's for your needs not mine but I'm choosing to spend that time in my timeline. I'm choosing to concurrently continue with my day and share knowledge with you at my expense on the timeline. If you request my time then you'll have to pay for it.
This is why my mindset has changed in business. My time is not up for wasting. I don't even like to waste my own time let alone someone elses. Every minute matters, even when it's spent resting.
I have absolutely turned people away because I can SEE they're going to use me, muck around with my services to be what they want and not what I give or simply waste my time. Yes it upsets people but only because they want what they want not what I'm giving during my time you buy even when I'm clear about what I'm offering or doing. The more I say no to people who think they're buying my knowledge and not my time, the more I don't care it upsets them.
If I have something of interest to you whether it be spiritual or horse related then simply pay me to take my time out of my life and spend it with you. The money it costs will never reflect the value of the knowledge shared during that time.
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27/09/2025
I've had to lie to people to make them like you. You lie to people to make them dislike me.
Is what I've said bad or....was what you did bad and I'm just talking about it?
Am I wrong or....was what you did wrong and I'm just saying it out loud?
Is it slander or truth?
Is it s**t talking or your personality on display?
Have I asked too much of you or...are you just inconsistent?
Perspective is everything
27/09/2025
Sometimes you need the silence of horses to recover from humans 🫶
27/09/2025
Sometimes others just need support. They don't need a whole lot of information ❤️
27/09/2025
You've got to be ok with people not thinking you're qualified.
You've got to be ok with some people wanting to see you fail.
You have to be ok that some people will never understand you, support you or want to cheer you on.
You have to be willing to do it without their applause, permission or approval.
You're going to get to a place, space and reality where you say ...you know what? I wasn't doing it for you anyway.
27/09/2025
The person you once were built the bridge. The person you have become will cross it. Don't fear what you will leave behind. Growth shows itself in the peace you now find yourself ❤️
27/09/2025
There is beauty in not belonging everywhere. Fitting in will never be worth the pieces you leave behind. What sets you apart is what makes you whole.
Difference is not your flaw...it's your signature ❤️
27/09/2025
What does holistic horsemanship mean to me? What does it look like to me? Why do I believe I can succeed? What's different?
Holistic is pretty self explanatory. Taking into consideration the physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, environmental, relationships and the overall health of the horse. That is why understanding factual, correct and the ever growing diverse knowledge there is out there about horses is essential to knowing what you should be doing and what you can adapt within your own personal relationship with horses depending on the horses individual personality, characteristics and level of training or human interactions.
It looks like hard work, blood, sweat, tears, laughter, frustration, relief, friendships, heartbreak, healing, clarity, growth, failure, goals, determination, success, messy, it's all coming together, it's all falling apart, trying, drive, self belief, adapting, no excuses, happy for others, acceptance, responsibility, lots of groundwork, relationship building with the horse, many miles, fear, confidence, courage, many circles, many falls, many unbelievable memories, milestones, epiphany moments, knowledge, socially shared love of horses, peer support, tuakana-teina learning, relationships with others and horses, peace, calm, trust, family and whole lot of earned reciprocated love. It looks like whanau.
I was successful before I got sick. The difference now is I have the business support I was lacking, and more belief in what I'm capable of. I lost it when I got sick. I only have to look through the memories of the past to remind myself I know what I'm doing ❤️
26/09/2025
How has my own life's horse journey impacted me? Only a few reasons. And so many memories. My mum loved I loved horses as she was a horse crazy girl and my sisters weren't interested. I was no fancy kid and tried it somewhere round 40 after not since teenage years because as good of a rider and lacking fear around horses as I was...I sucked at fancy and I'm not ashamed to say so. At 40ish I realised I still suck at fancy but I do some other pretty cool things with horses 😊
26/09/2025
When Nan hears you casually singing to your pony ❤️
25/09/2025
Healing...what do I do? How does it work?
The healing I do is hands on or off depending on the person, horse or other animal I'm working on. As it's spiritual and energy it can be very overwhelming for some so I take an intuitive approach. Sometimes it changes between the two.
It is a mix of spiritual gifts, flinchlock release, energy release/removal/transfer/transmute/boosting/recharging/extra charging...whatever you want to call it...to me it's just an energy conversations between a body who needs help to do what it knows what to do anyway and my body who can give it that guidance it's seeking, and a whole lot of trust in the process.
I went digging in the archives but managed to find some photos of a few rare photos taken of horses and people I've worked with. Also some photos of a Soul to Soul connection clinic I was invited to do at the Whakatane RDA
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Absolute Truth Holistic Care is owned and operated by Lou Reid.
A bit about me:
I have spent my whole life around horses. Growing up in Gisborne and being born into two farming families. One from Te Karaka and the other from Rangitukia. I was lucky enough to be on a horse before I could walk and it was just a natural progression of my life to be around them. I rode horses on the family farm most of my life and when I was 10 years old my parents bought me my own horse. I rode in local sports and ribbon days in Gisborne growing up and rode until I was 24 years old when I had my first child and put horse riding and being around horses second to raising my children. After raising children for 10 years I brought horses back into our lives and from that point I have endeavoured to make horses a very large part of my daily life. Over the past few years I have attended local ribbon days, inhand shows, labour days shows, endurance rides and Le Trec days and have acquired quite a wall of ribbons for my riding efforts.
I have always had a natural communication and healing ability with horses and after attending a foundation course for Flinchlock release therapy this spiritual side of me heightened to a level that I never expected. It was like a portal to the Universe opened and I had an inner power that was within me but not of me. I have spent a number of years now learning about myself and fine tuning my ability to heal horses, humans and other animals. Learning to understand this spirit to spirit communication I have that allows me to be a voice for the horse, humans and other animals souls and relay what is going on for them. During this spirit to spirit communication process I am able to find blockages in the body that prevent recovery and healing from physical, mental, emotional or spiritual injury and trauma. Once these blockages are gone the body can begin to do what it is meant to do, heal itself.
I have used this healing ability in many ways over the years with horses trying different things to see where it can be useful. I have discovered that it can be used in every aspect of horse work from a wild horse to horse breaking and starting, training float or truck loading, groundwork, ridden work, post traumatic recovery to wellbeing for both horse and owner, and the list keeps growing as I evolve and embrace this spirituality more and more.
I work with people in so many different ways now too. From hands on healing to readings, past life releases and working through traumatic experiences and being able to move on in life and discover their own spiritual SELF through spiritual guidance I give.
I am also a big advocate for Mental Health recovery and journey to wellbeing through the use of spirituality and horses, creating strategies and tools for helping children through their own trauma experiences and the list keeps growing in all of these aspects and many more also.
I embrace all of me, all the good and bad, happy and sad, hardships and successess...all of it. I believe in being Authentically yourself and growing from there, being truly yourself in the world expressing your inner power to endure the life you are given, the power to navigate your way through your life and the power to transform your life into anything you wan. Be all that you can be for yourself to be able to impact change on the world around you.
My Qualifications:
* Bachelor Degree in ECE, Registered
* Diploma in Comprehensive Nursing, Registered
* Certificate in Equine Foundation Course for Flinchlock release therapy
* Certificate in Dromgood horsemanship journey to mastery
* Equine care and handling Level 3
