From Healing through Connection Parenting: Pam Leo – Into Healing S1, Ep.7

“Bonnie Harris’s book ‘When Your Kids Push Your Buttons’ was awesome. It really felt like collecting all these puzzle pieces, putting them together, and coming up with a clear picture of where we need to go if we want to have the relationship with our children that will last the rest of our lives.

So it’s really important—not that we get it right, so to speak—but that we move forward connected and stay connected.”

From The Therapeutic Power of Equine Therapy: Alexa Ball – Into Healing S3, Ep.6.

From The Therapeutic Power of Equine Therapy: Alexa Ball – Into Healing S3, Ep.6.:

“Alexa: What’s beautiful about this as a therapeutic modality, and about horses being part of the healing process, is that there is often as much healing in sitting in a chair in silence with this being as there is in doing something with them.

And so I often invite my students into that space of the pause, just to see what they notice there. Actually, there’s not so much hard work, movement, or task orientation that has to go into it to achieve healing. It’s not about achieving it with the horse; it’s really just about being in it with them.

Mira: What have horses taught you about communication in general?

Alexa: Really, that it’s important to shut up sometimes. I joke about that, but there is so much in the nonverbal, and so much noise we make with our language that tunes out so much else happening in our bodies and our spirits. It’s hard to hear sometimes when we’re speaking with our mouths. What happens when you stop using this language that’s very easy and instead tune into some of the more subtle cues that are true, but may just be softer?”