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Equine-Assisted Wellness Program

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 for veterans, active-duty personnel, first responders, frontline workers, and/or their immediate family.

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Equine-Assisted Wellness Program

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 for veterans, active-duty personnel, first responders, frontline workers, and/or their immediate family.

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Equine-Assisted Wellness

Mental, physical or emotional trauma can interfere with your quality of life

Mental, physical or emotional trauma can interfere with your quality of life

Mental, physical or emotional trauma can interfere with your quality of life

Guiding Reins offers an alternative approach to improve mental and/or physical well-being.

Horses offer life-changing gifts, helping you with everyday life skills

Mental, physical or emotional trauma can interfere with your quality of life

Mental, physical or emotional trauma can interfere with your quality of life

Horses are highly attuned to the environment around them, and are very sensitive to the emotions of their human companions.

16 weeks that could change your life. Come as you are.

Mental, physical or emotional trauma can interfere with your quality of life

16 weeks that could change your life. Come as you are.

Equine-assisted activities and learning meets you where you are. It allows you to have someone else to care for and to show you unconditional love.


Despite It All

  Despite all the sleepless nights

Despite the constant lack of energy and motivation

Despite his hatred towards a world of judgment and lack of understanding

Despite all the plaster that filled every hole he punched in the walls at home

Despite all the tears his wife wiped from his face

Despite knowing that every tear was part of a memory that he could touch

Despite knowing that inside of him dwells many demons that he struggles to keep hidden from the world

Despite all the angry outburst, the pills abused, and the alcohol consumed

Despite constantly tripping though remember when

Despite all the chaos that life had thrown at him

He knew, in what was left of his broken heart that had seen the true evil of the world, that when he pressed his chest against his horse and matched his horses breathing, that inner peace and the ability to love was somewhere still inside of him.

He knew that as his hands gently touched the side of his horse that somewhere inside of him was a soul that he thought was forever gone.

And he truly knew that in the end it would be okay. And if its not okay, then it’s not the end.

 

by Red Palmer, US Army and North Carolina Sheriff Veteran, Guiding Reins Graduate 

I can’t express how much we appreciate you all and how beneficial your program has been to my team. The atmosphere in our office has seen a drastic change and I owe a lot of that to your program’s efforts. Thank you!!


Haley Suskauer, MPH -Polk County Health & Wellness Coalition

Guiding Reins in the News

Improving Lives Through Equine-Assisted Wellness Programs

Improving Lives Through Equine-Assisted Wellness Programs

Improving Lives Through Equine-Assisted Wellness Programs

Read the full article about Guiding Reins in the Nov. 2022 issue of Life in our Foothills, pg. 20

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How Horses are Helping Veterans Recover

Improving Lives Through Equine-Assisted Wellness Programs

Improving Lives Through Equine-Assisted Wellness Programs

Helping veterans heal with horses

As seen on FOX Carolina May 17, 2022

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Guiding Reins In Action

Improving Lives Through Equine-Assisted Wellness Programs

Guiding Reins In Action

 We’ve never met a strong person with an easy past. 

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Roasted Reins is a weekly informal gathering for local veterans, military personnel, first responders, and frontline workers to gather, connect, and relax with others that can relate to your experiences. Make plans to join us in downtown Landrum, SC.

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