Deb's Body Shop, LLC

05/15/2025

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Horse sculpture from recycled cutlery by Jean Marie Parache!

05/10/2025

My first trip to Carolina horse Park was a grand success! I met some fabulous people and beautiful horses, I got to work with an old favorite💗
Good luck to everyone riding tomorrow! I’ll see you in June! 

05/04/2025

05/01/2025

The degree of neurogenesis stimulated by animal therapy, and how lasting the effects might be, is difficult to measure. But therapists involved in such programs speculate that their benefits actually derive from shutting down for a time some of our brain’s higher and sometimes cacophonous cognitive functions. It seems akin to a phenomenon observed in recent neuroimaging studies of the effects of psychedelics on the brain’s of people with severe depression. Rather than augmenting higher-level consciousness, a substance like psilocybin actually shuts down our brain’s ego center, which, under duress, can confer crippling fear, guilt and insecurity, and instead allows people access to their unfettered emotions and sense of childlike wonder. Allows them, in other words, a mind-altering walk in the wood with no names.

-Why Close Encounters With Animals Soothes Us, Charles Siebert The New York Times Magazine May 2017

04/27/2025

Horses—thunder trapped in muscle, eyes wide with ancestral fire. Hooves strike like war drums, manes whipping in defiance of gravity. Beauty at full gallop, chaos bridled but never broken.