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Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal
Tim Hayes
St. Martin's Press
March 2015
On Sale: March 3, 2015
304 pages
ISBN: 1250033519
EAN: 9781250033512
Kindle: B00MLN1TLI
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Pet-Lover
For thousands of years one animal has contributed to human
survival more than any other. It has been a source of
food,
a means of transportation, a provider of physical labor
and
an instrument of war. This extraordinary creature is the
horse. Throughout human history people have loved, owned
and
ridden horses. Horses fascinate us; they silently speak to
our hearts. Young and old, rich or poor we are drawn;
whether to books like The Horse Whisperer, events like The
Kentucky Derby, TV Specials like the award winning HBO
movie
Temple Grandin or movies like Steven Spielberg’s War
Horse. Millions of people — horse owners and non-horse owners
alike
— have also discovered the amazing abilities of horses to
help us heal and recover from disabling physical and
mental
conditions such as autism and multiple sclerosis by
participating in what is known as Equine Therapy. Now
something quite extraordinary has been discovered about
the
ability of horses to help humans. Men and women afflicted
with severe emotional damage are healing and making
dramatic
recoveries by receiving the simple love, understanding and
acceptance that comes from establishing a relationship
with
a horse. The unique message of Tim Hayes' Riding Home is two-fold.
On
an individual level it is the first and only book to
explain
why horses have this remarkable ability to heal and
positively transform emotionally wounded men and women
whether they be troubled teens, prison inmates or war
veterans with post traumatic stress disorder. On a
societal
level Riding Home offers a powerful argument for the
expansion of such equine programs that accomplish what
many
institutional organizations that utilize traditional
psychotherapy and pharmaceutical medication have often
been
unable to achieve. To have a relationship with a horse is to discover and
know
yourself, other humans and the world with more truth and
compassion than one could dream or imagine. Horses help us
discover hidden parts of ourselves. They cause us to
become
better people, better parents, better partners and better
friends. They teach us that when we’re not getting what we
want, we’re the ones who need to change either what we’re
doing or who we’re being. A horse can be our greatest
teacher for a horse has no ego, he never lies and he’s
never
wrong.
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