Kathleen Choe
Horses and Holidays
Many people love including their animals in holiday celebrations, and horses have long played a central role in holiday traditions across...
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Kathleen Choe
Nov 134 min read
Do Horses Grieve?
Star and Spirit November is upon us already, and many of us are looking forward to celebrating the upcoming holiday season with the...
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Kathleen Choe
Aug 242 min read
The Large Blue Horses
Franz Marc’s Blue Horses by Mary Oliver I step into the painting of the four blue horses. I am not even surprised that I can do this. ...
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Kathleen Choe
Aug 86 min read
Thomas and Jed
“I’m sorry, ma’am, but this is bullsh*t.” The combat veteran is trying to remain polite, but his face is flushed and his fists are...
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Kathleen Choe
Jul 236 min read
Mamas and Mares
I first meet four year old Anneke when her worried father brings her for an Equine Assisted Psychotherapy session after her mother was...
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Kathleen Choe
Apr 164 min read
Sterling: Seeing the World Through One Eye
I am a handsome quarter horse and Copper’s best friend. My human named me Sterling Silver because I am black with flecks of silver in my...
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Kathleen Choe
Mar 184 min read
Spirit: a little strawberry roan appaloosa who loves to rock and roll!
My name is Spirit and I am Copper’s best friend. (My herd mate Sterling also thinks he is Copper’s best friend but I think he just...
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Kathleen Choe
Mar 124 min read
Horses and Humans Research Foundation Interview with Nahshon Cook
I recently had the privilege of participating in an online interview arranged by the Horses and Humans Research Foundation with Nahshon...
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Kathleen Choe
Dec 9, 20234 min read
The Tiger's Whisker
At the Sacred Landscapes Natural Lifemanship Conference I had the privilege of hearing gifted story teller Bill Woodburn share a Korean...
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Kathleen Choe
Oct 24, 20234 min read
Horses and Humans: A Unique Partnership in Therapy
The earliest recorded mention of equine therapy is found in some writings by Hippocrates, a physician born in 460 BC in Greece, who wrote...
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Kathleen Choe
Aug 13, 20237 min read
On Longing and Belonging
Connection. It is at the heart of our longing to belong. We experience it as a felt sense of being seen, heard, valued, not alone. When...
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Kathleen Choe
Jul 22, 20234 min read
The Story of Copper's Herd Mate: Chief
The sport of horse racing has come under even more intense scrutiny recently after a string of multiple and mysterious deaths which...
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Kathleen Choe
Jul 22, 20233 min read
The Adventures of Copper: A Curious and Courageous Quarter Horse
While I was adjusting the automatic waterer on my horses’ trough, my curious Quarter Horse, Copper, came over to see what I was doing. ...
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Kathleen Choe
Sep 1, 20226 min read
Star
They arrived together in a trailer one morning, two small, wide-eyed, scrappy Appaloosas who had been dubbed Cherokee and Apache along...
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Kathleen Choe
Aug 3, 20213 min read
The Twinship of Grief and Love
“Love, where it ever existed before, doesn't cease to exist. To speak of love in the past tense is not to know love at all. Love goes on,...
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Kathleen Choe
Jan 15, 20212 min read
What Did You Do With Your Dash?
What did you do with your dash? I recently heard an interview with the Reverend Michael Curry, where he described the engraving on most...
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Kathleen Choe
Nov 1, 20205 min read
New Beginnings
For many of us the pandemic has been about multiple endings involving a great deal of grief and loss. Norms and expectations, our usual...
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Kathleen Choe
Aug 2, 20204 min read
The Lone Sunflower
At first it was just a slender green shoot, pushing bravely up through a crack in the sun-baked cement. It was in fact the only glimpse...
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Kathleen Choe
Jul 2, 20203 min read
No Fear in Love
Webster’s Dictionary defines fear as “an unpleasant, often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger.” While some...
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Kathleen Choe
Jun 26, 20203 min read
Subjective/Objective
In last week’s email I made a humble attempt to condense and simplify some of the neuro-science behind our affective states when we are...
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