About Karen’s Journey
Love, without condition, creates connection.
Mutual vulnerability creates trust.
I am seeking a place where the animals within my guardianship and I can share peace of mind, connect, and communicate. I am seeking a place where our relationships can be based in truth. I am challenging myself to let go of all I thought I knew, and listen to the animals. I am challenging myself to let go of all I thought I knew, and listen to myself.
The herd that lives with me are five animals who are going through their lives with chronic physical and behavioural problems. Laminitis, Uveitis & Cribbing. I challenged myself a few years ago (2018) to look at the connection between emotions and physical and behavioural conditions in the horses. This has led me down a path of looking into how I feel emotionally about these conditions, how I manage these conditions without being overwhelmed or over thinking, and how, if I can bring peace of mind to the horses, how they can release any trauma of their own that may have caused ther condition or be adding to the continuance of it.
By following a circle of constantly asking, listening, and learning, we can come to a place of knowing, which can then be shared. Through sharing we come back to asking…
Throughout the website I share my journey with each of the conditions within the herd, as well as my journey with myself and the different feelings and emotions I bring to each animal and its condition, what those were and how by releasing those a layer at a time, the animal changed and released layers of their own feelings and emotions, helping the healing process.
This journey with my herd from the very first connections, to the deep spiritual journeys we now go on, will always continue, from this life, and maybe to the next.
Through these experiences, the teaching and support from the Trust Technique I receive as a Trust Technique Practitioner (having qualified with a Diploma in Mindfulness for people with their animals), the books I read which include (but are by no means limited to) Ren Hurst’s ‘The Wisdom of Wildness – Healing the Trauma of Domestication’, the useful websites I have found such as http://www.ourspiritualnutrition.com, and some amazing people whose work I follow such as Kim Hallin ‘ Unbridled LLC’ & Warwick Schiller, I am now in the right place to support people with animals with chronic physical and behavioural problems, applying mindfulness and relationship understanding techniques which help both the animal and its guardian.
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