I have discovered the healing power of horses at the age of 51. After going through almost one year of flashbacks and memories of sexual abuse by many people in my family, I decided to learn to ride. This summer I did that and I did it all by myself.

I cannot do tricks. I can walk and trot and back and turn and all the simple things, but, when new things happen, the fear is not there. It has occurred to me that the scared has "been scared out of me" after all the memories of my many abusers.

Horses have healing powers. Horses have love. Horses have emotions I forgot existed. Horses are beautiful and powerful and loving and, most importantly, horses know when you need someone.

I can't do anything fancy on a horse and probably never will. Or perhaps I will teach myself but something that I can say with 100% certainty is the healing power of a horse is like nothing I have EVER known.