04/14/2026
Tonight we got out of the house and out of the norm and learned about equine therapy. Ms. Carrie Page shared about her horses and it hit us… we are not all that different.
She talked about her wild mustang. How it lived in the wilderness, was captured at 5 years old, and how what happened next depended on the trainer.
If a horse is trained through fear and force, it might fall in line but that fight or flight never leaves. It stays guarded, reactive, just trying to survive. But when a trainer shows patience, consistency, and understanding, that horse learns trust. It learns how to respond instead of react.
That is us.
Life shapes how we think and how we respond. Those are our thought patterns. For a lot of us, we lived in survival mode for a long time. Fight or flight. No in between and oftentimes, substance became how we coped.
BUT recovery is where we start to relearn.
We learn to pause. To check those thoughts. To respond differently. Just like leading a horse you do not yank and force it. You guide it. You give a little freedom, a couple feet of rope, while still holding structure.
Too tight and there is rebellion. Too loose and there is chaos. But with the right balance, something steady starts to form.
That is recovery.
We do not lose our spirit. We just finally learn how to live in it.
Thank you so much Carrie for sharing Poncho and Journey with us this evening. 🐴
