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The Unfolding

Unfolding Short Stories: "..and that horse loves them" - Cathy White uses equine therapy

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Cathy White has worked with horses for 14 years and uses equine therapy to help kids. In this story, she shares how God brought her and her husband Bob together and called them to a ministry through horses and helping children to overcome difficult life circumstances.

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God's story, your life.

0:05.0

Unfolding short stories.

0:10.0

My husband and I have a horse rescue and children's therapy program.

0:15.0

We rescue the horses, we train them to work with kids.

0:19.0

They give the kids therapy and it's an amazing thing to

0:22.9

watch. My sister had a horse and I was never allowed on it because I was too little and that was

0:30.6

always disheartening to me because I loved the horses. They were just so majestic and so beautiful

0:36.4

and quite frankly, I probably needed equine therapy

0:40.2

came from a really difficult childhood my parents were extremely poor they had five children

0:48.1

I was the fourth of those five kids we lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon. It was not nice.

0:55.0

We had no running water.

0:56.0

We had an outdoor toilet.

0:58.0

And my mother was very manic-depressive.

1:01.0

Would totally lose it on us kids quite often.

1:04.0

So that's why I say I probably needed equine therapy.

1:07.0

I loved my mother with all my heart.

1:09.0

And her and I worked through it when I became an adult.

1:12.6

So that's a good thing.

1:14.2

But as a child, you never knew when you were going to get beat

1:17.3

because her personality would change on a dime.

1:20.9

And so when opportunity presented itself to do something like this,

1:25.9

it was like, yeah, this is what I need to do. And Bob had the

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