CHI: Cascadia Healing & Integration

01/24/2026

A little about being on social media. Being nice is a choice. It’s also a skill that can be developed. It supports our nervous system health to be nice & it just feels better too.

01/14/2026

Big news!!

Cascadia Healing & Integration is now officially a fully formed nonprofit!

This has been a long-held vision — to create a trauma-focused, values-led nonprofit organization offering equine-assisted and nervous system healing for people who are often underserved or overlooked by traditional systems.

Now that we’re officially launched, we’re beginning the work of building programs, infrastructure, and access — and we’re looking for community support to help make that possible.

If you feel called to support this work (through donating, sharing, volunteering, or connecting us with aligned folks), we’d be so grateful.

Thank you for being part of this from the beginning ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

01/04/2026

Having horses when you’re neurodivergent is basically running a a very high budget wellbeing retreat for yourself without realising it. 🐴🧠

You thought you were buying a horse.
What you actually bought was an external hard drive for your nervous system.

• Routine?
People love to say horses thrive on routine.
Mine thrive on ✨vibes✨.
I turn up at wildly inconsistent times like a feral yard goblin and they’re like,
“Ah yes. This version of you again.” ⏰🧌 We LOVE it.

• Executive dysfunction?
You can ignore emails for weeks.
You will not ignore a horse staring at you like you personally ruined their day because you gave them 3 carrots and they know the 4th is in your pocket. 👁️🌾

• Sensory overload?
Phone = too loud.
People = too loud.
Horse chewing hay = perfect.
Brain finally stops buffering. 📵🌾

• Social energy at zero?
Great. Horses do not do small talk. Ideal.
They will stand with you in silence and call it quality time. 🤝

• Hyperfocus?
You only meant to “quickly check” them for the 4th time today.
It’s now dark, you’re covered in mud, and you’ve started a deep emotional audit of saddle pads and long lost bags of miscellaneous items. 🔦🫠

• Emotional regulation?
Horses sense your internal chaos before you’ve even parked the car.
They don’t judge it.
They just quietly refuse to cooperate until you stop spiralling. Iconic behaviour. 👑

• Masking?
Doesn’t work.
Horse sees straight through it like,
“Please stop pretending you’re fine. I can smell the cortisol.” 👃😐

They don’t care if your life is messy.
They don’t care if you’re late.
They don’t care if you haven’t replied to anyone in your WhatsApp for three days.

They care that you show up.
That you’re kind.
That the hay eventually appears. 🌾💛

It’s not structure.
It’s connection.
And somehow that’s exactly what our brains needed all along.

01/03/2026

It seems so simple it couldn’t possibly work… but it does!!

01/01/2026

This right here!

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12/23/2025

Mental labor is a real thing. It’s great to see these SM creators so focused on this topic.

12/23/2025

I have loved seeing Dr. Gabor Mate become more & more well known. His work linking physical health & mental health (I believe it should all just be health) is excellent.

Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Gabor Maté, an expert in the field of trauma, addiction and recovery. Subscribe through my link https://groun...