When Love Means Letting Go

Grief, Animals, and the Hard Mercy of Euthanasia Saying the Word We Don’t Want to Say Euthanasia—as people who love animals—it’s not something we want to consider. If you live long enough with animals, you will eventually have to practice the hardest kind of love. On...

Horses, Healing, and Hope

Your Next Chapter Begins Here I love it when wildlife comes to visit. I see hawks almost daily, an owl occasionally, and coyotes and deer regularly. Sometimes, I hear what I think might be an eagle, although I’ve never seen what I was sure was one. Yesterday evening I...

Healing Grief through Equine Gestalt

This is a difficult time of year for me. My dad’s birthday was May 29. Grandpa died around May 30. Dad died June 11. Father’s Day falls in here somewhere. Mike died on June 28. And Mike’s birthday was July 6. Then in 2020, only 17 days after Dad’s death my first...