The Bridges Program

02/25/2026

As a provider of one of those “alternative therapies” with research backing the effectiveness of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and monies in the budget the VA is still refusing to allow veterans this critical therapy to save lives. WHY???

02/22/2026

02/05/2026

There may be science behind why so many women connect so deeply with mares.

Not in a fluffy “women like mares because vibes” way.
In a nervous-system, lived-body, evolutionary sense.

Mares are biologically wired to be more vigilant. As breeding animals, they are often more sensitive to environmental threat, social pressure, and internal state. Their bodies track safety constantly. Small changes matter. Timing matters. Intention matters.

That heightened sensitivity gets labelled as “difficult”.

Women are often wired the same way.

Research consistently shows that women, on average, display higher relational attunement, emotional awareness, and threat detection. Not because women are fragile, but because many have had to become skilled at reading subtle shifts in mood, power, and safety from an early age.

When you grow up having to notice tone before words, mood before meaning, and danger before it’s named, your nervous system adapts.

Mares respond to that kind of awareness.

They don’t trust bravado.
They don’t relax for dominance.
They settle when the body in front of them is regulated, congruent, and listening.

A mare doesn’t need you to be confident in the performative sense. She needs you to be honest in your body. And many women have spent their lives learning to read and regulate bodies. Often their own, often others’, often at great personal cost.

So when a woman meets a mare, there’s recognition.

Not romance.
Not softness.
Recognition.

Two nervous systems that know what it is to be misunderstood. To be told they’re too much. To be corrected instead of listened to.

And when that connection works, it isn’t because the mare has been “handled”.
It’s because, for once, sensitivity wasn’t treated as a flaw.

That’s not magic.
That’s biology meeting lived experience.

And it explains a lot 🧡🐴

02/02/2026

Rick Baker and I are blessed to do work we love with the most beautiful creatures on earth. We couldn’t do what we do without all of the people who stand beside us to further the work of healing with horsemanship.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Dr Harold Cannon who has graciously opened his farm to our work in The Bridges Program and Gentle Hooves. Horses are amazing healers and the one constant that has come up with clients since the move is how peaceful it is just to be at Cannon Hill Farm.

Amazed how God goes before to prepare what I could never have imagined.

01/21/2026

Good Morning. Happy Hump Day. The horses are ready to a full day of sessions. We are open today for therapy.

01/16/2026

Such an honor to know and work with our women veterans

01/01/2026

Wishing everyone a blessed New Year!!!