Notes on connection, horses and a life that feels real.

Life is short. It doesn't feel like it when you're little — summer stretches out forever. Then the years start passing with such speed. We can't slow down time, but we can be more deliberate about how we spend it.

Do you love where you spend most of your time? Do you wake up motivated? Do you go to bed satisfied and grateful? And the big one: are you feeling inspired?

If you shook your head at those questions, it can be your reality. You've simply lost your sense of direction and gone on autopilot. Who you truly are and what sets your soul on fire lives inside you — buried under the shoulds, fears and pain, but it's there.

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" — Mary Oliver

As a psychotherapist I've spent the past 20 years working with trauma. I studied with the best, then explored new ways of healing, which led to developing my own modality — Embodied Equine Psychotherapy.

I started my career treating addiction, working with inner city youth in LA and the rich and famous in Malibu. What became abundantly clear was that the opposite of addiction isn't sobriety, it's connection.

As humans we are herd animals, just like horses.