Reclaimed Connections

Reclaimed Connections is an off-shoot of Cradle of the Moon. Cradle of the Moon began as a rescue program for abused and abandoned horses. Its core reasons for being was to provide them with jobs that help them to reconnect with people positively. Repeatedly, ours demonstrated their enormous capacity for forgiveness. We were privileged to tap into their vast healing potential.

Using animals in therapeutic work is not new. Employing previously traumatized horses in this realm is rare. Most of our critters suffered abuse, neglect and/or abandonment in their earlier lives. They proved to be willing partners in helping people to make peace with disabling emotional trauma, after we put in significant work to heal their disturbances. These horses were astoundingly astute at seeing beyond the masks most of us humans present to the world. They’re all about relating to us as we really are, with all our warts and wrinkles. Equine Guided Education does not involve riding or exercising power over horses. Instead, it engages them as collaborators who cut through our social conditioning and personal defenses to reflect back the true Self without blame or judgment.

Like everyone, horses do best when their environments are designed to accommodate their needs. Horses are grazing, browsing herd animals. Their relationships to their herd define their lives. We humans can integrate ourselves into their herd sensibilities, if we approach them with humility and respect. This requires a type of mindfulness that’s very different from that of training a servant or show animal. Instead of the all too common approach of power over, this requires us humans to touch into our pack animal natures in ways that often run counter to our enculturation.

Through religion, industrialization and our more recent movement into the information age, our culture trained us to believe we are entitled to dominion over the plant and animal realms. We have been schooled to view them as resources to be exploited instead of as partners to be negotiated with. This approach hasn’t supported our health any better than it has that of our planet.

Equine Collaboration is a path toward healing the chasm humans wrought in the natural world between our life – support system and us. In this age of environmental degradation, social upheaval and apparently insurmountable personal crises, we humans long for opportunities to heal our planet and ourselves. Horses, properly maintained, have much wisdom to share on how to create and maintain healthy communities that function in balance with the world. When we have access to human communities that function on these principles, we are empowered to heal the traumas lurking in our pasts that may contort our relationships and our health. Reclaimed Connections is about providing a framework for this.

I am also an advocate of herbal medicine. I began life deeply connected to the botanical realms. Through a series of various crises, I found my way to robust health through the judicious engagement of our botanical neighbors and critter allies. During a hiatus in my psychotherapy practice, I teamed up with Tana O’Connaigh to open HydroSouls Alchemy, where we offered blends of organic, therapeutic-grade whole herbs and essential oils, hydrosols and infused based oils to promote the health and happiness of humans, horses and dogs.

Psycho-neuro-immunology is a relatively new field of scientific inquiry. The advent of tools that reflect accurate images of functioning brains has given rise to several new approaches to both understanding how humans function and how to heal our problematic anomalies. Mario Martinez, Ph.D., a neuro-psychologist, has posited a theory on bio-cognition that seamlessly weaves together our expanding comprehension of how our minds, bodies and spirits function with anthropological evidence that demonstrates the enormous impact of enculturation on our health and thought processes.

Using Dr. Martinez’s work as a background template in conjunction with decades of experience handling horses, dogs, cats and people, I offer humans and their companion animals services to assist them in transcending culturally embedded beliefs around dominion to bring their relationships to the next level.

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