Moe

 

After our ride, Jeff walked Moe on lead to the pasture with the other horses. When Jeff got to the barn, he discovered Moe followed him instead of choosing to graze the green grass. Jeff sat on the top of a barrel to acknowledge Moe's bid for connection for about 20 minutes. Jeff jumped off the barrel to stow it away and Moe followed him around.

Getting Ready to Do Cool Things and Meet New People With Moe   This time we have a little more knowledge about trauma bonding in relationships , coercive control , parasocial trauma bonding , and anxious attachments with the intent to manipulate . We were surrounded by manipulative and coercive personalities who were eager to use and abuse us. We have learned a lot about boundaries through horses to avoid creating a 'nice' culture that disempowers and disenfranchises marginalized community members. Patients with disabilities are frequently marginalized and we have only begun to scratch the surface in our effort to learn more about how we tend to utilize othering bias to justify working our own issues out on others while blaming them over being accountable. We have learned to watch for anxious attachment signs with charming personalities because that has been the culture of our generational conditioning from the Silent Generation . Several have glorified the silent generation mi...

 Jeff started working on learning groundwork and doing his riding homework. 

 Jeff and Moe are working on their homework in the #arena for their journey on the #HighwayToMore. As the death anniversaries of so many loved ones lost arrive, we're doing what we can to navigate through grief of love that has nowhere else to go now that they are gone. The homework is paying off.