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Parallel Effects Equine At Parallel Effects we help you move forward by learning from and partnering with our unique teachers-horses.

We have programs for individuals, women’s empowerment, mental health, trauma/addiction recovery. Parallel Effects provides Equine Assisted Learning life skill development programs. Currently offering women’s workshops , mental health, addiction and corporate team building and leadership programs. The dream is to empower clients through real life skill development and the powerful truths horses tell.

The truth. ❤️
10/16/2026

The truth. ❤️

Here is how horses can help you feel seen🤎Some grief doesn’t come with words. It shows up in tension, in breath held, in...
10/15/2026

Here is how horses can help you feel seen🤎

Some grief doesn’t come with words. It shows up in tension, in breath held, in shoulders that forget how to drop.

You don’t need words to be seen. Not here.

The horses read what is real — with no judgement. They help carry out weight and confusion to find focus and calm.

Grief that can’t be explained is still worthy to be seen. Whether your loss is tangible, or invisible, complicated or long-past, the horses still respond to your truth. Leading towards regulation.

The horses will meet you right where you are at in this safe, inclusive and sacred space.

Comment below or send us a message to chat about our equine assisted services. I’d love to hold space for that story it whatever way it wants to show up.

Grief that hides in silence still takes up space in your body. You don’t have to explain why it hurts to a horse for it ...
10/14/2026

Grief that hides in silence still takes up space in your body. You don’t have to explain why it hurts to a horse for it to be seen. 🧠

Your nervous system doesn’t heal by understanding— it heals by feeling safe. Horses offer that space. No pressure. No performance. Just presence.
When no one else sees it, they sense it. You don’t need the right words for them. You only need to show up as you are.

Comment or send a DM to work with me as a trauma-informed Equine Assisted Development Facilitator with the presence of horses. 🐴

Come join us! Me — Michelle and my intuitive herd (Swayze, Jimmy, Two Socks and Whip) 🐴🐴🐴🐴 for The Equine Effect Fall Ex...
10/13/2026

Come join us! Me — Michelle and my intuitive herd (Swayze, Jimmy, Two Socks and Whip) 🐴🐴🐴🐴 for The Equine Effect Fall Experience October 17th, 2026! Deepening into understanding the inner workings of your mind

Untangling your mind: Where thought becomes choice.

More info at www.paralleleffects.net

10/12/2026

Take a moment and be mindful of what’s surrounding you. 🤍🤎 Happy Thanksgiving. Feeling extremely grateful.

I want to tell you about something I have watched happen more than once.The session finds its pace and something starts ...
10/09/2026

I want to tell you about something I have watched happen more than once.

The session finds its pace and something starts to move in the client’s body. Not dramatically. Just a shift or a softening somewhere. A breath that goes a little deeper than the ones before it.

One of the horses walks over. Then another. Sometimes all four find their way into the space around this one person, each of them attending to something different, each of them certain about where they need to be.

Not to the client’s hand, extended in greeting. Not to the space in front of them where most human interaction happens. To the place in their body where the thing is held. A shoulder carrying years of tension it has never been able to put down. A chest that has been braced so long the person stopped noticing. A place in the back that has been quietly aching through every session they have ever sat in with anyone.

They just stand there. Touching those places.

Breathing.

The client usually goes very still. Sometimes they cry. Not the effortful kind of crying that comes from being asked to access something. The other kind. The kind that arrives on its own because something has finally been met that has been waiting a long time to be met.

I have also watched a horse refuse to engage with clients who are performing or hiding behind a mask. They also refuse to disengage when a client’s mind was ready to move on before the body was ready. The horse stayed exactly where it was, at that place, with a patience and a certainty that I can only describe as knowing.

The body’s process was not finished. The horse knew before any of us did.

I cannot fully explain this. I just know to trust it completely.

The horses know where the work is.

They always find it.

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Surviving looks like this.You get through the day. You do what needs to be done. You are functional, mostly. You show up...
10/08/2026

Surviving looks like this.

You get through the day. You do what needs to be done. You are functional, mostly. You show up for the people who need you. You hold it together in public and decompress in private and wake up the next morning and do it again.

From the outside it looks fine. From the inside it feels like you are always slightly bracing. Always half-waiting for the next hard thing. Always running a quiet background calculation of how much you have left and whether it will be enough to get through what is still coming.

There is no room for joy in survival mode. Not real joy. Not the kind that comes up unexpectedly and takes you by surprise. What passes for good is really just the absence of bad. A day where nothing went wrong. A moment where you weren’t needed by anyone. A night where your mind finally, briefly, went quiet.

You have forgotten what it feels like to actually land somewhere.

Living is different. Not easier necessarily — life does not stop being hard. But different in the way you are inside it. You check in with yourself before the catastrophising has finished. You notice a moment of pleasure and you actually feel it instead of watching it pass from a slight distance. You move through difficulty without being consumed by it. There is ground under your feet. There is something in you that is not just holding on.

You know the difference. You have known it for a long time.
You also know which one you have been living in.
That knowing — that quiet, persistent awareness that something is missing — is not a problem. It is your body telling you the truth. It has been telling you the truth for longer than you have been able to listen.

I want to help you listen.

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A glimpse into a 1-on-1 sessions with me.You cannot perform your way through something you have no script for. There is ...
10/07/2026

A glimpse into a 1-on-1 sessions with me.

You cannot perform your way through something you have no script for. There is no
right answer, no correct response, no way to do this wrong. There is only you, showing
up as you actually are. For many people that is the first time that has happened in a very
long time.

What follows is a three-way conversation between you, the horse, and me. It is not a
session you observe. It is something you are inside of. The horse tracks what is
happening in your body with precision.

⭐️

10/05/2026

There’s something about horses… they bring you back to yourself
Healing doesn’t always look like stillness—sometimes it looks like this🤎🐴

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