03/04/2026
Animal-Assisted Therapy🐣🪺Wednesday is back!
This week we’re highlighting the girls. 💅
The hen house is a hit here at Healing Hearts. Clients participate in feeding the chickens, collecting eggs, and feeling the sunshine on their skin while watching the hens peck away.
You may be asking…How is this therapeutic? Working with animals naturally slows us down and brings us into the present moment. Feeding the hens and collecting eggs encourages mindfulness, gentle movement, and sensory engagement—feeling the warm eggs, hearing the soft clucks, and noticing the rhythm of nature. 🐔🌞
These simple interactions can reduce stress, regulate the nervous system, and create opportunities for clients to practice responsibility, patience, and nurturing behaviors. For many, the hen house becomes a space where they can breathe a little deeper, feel connected to something living, and experience calm without pressure or expectations.
Sometimes healing doesn’t happen in an office chair, it happens in the sunshine, with a basket of eggs and a few curious hens nearby. 🧺🥚💛