Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal

Equine therapy has long been a staple activity for special-needs children and adults, and its physical benefits are evident.

In Riding Home, Horse Nation's must read book of 2016, Tim Hayes uses his own vast experience working with horses combined with scientific research to show us how and why horses and our relationships with them are also able to heal our emotional and psychological wounds.Riding Home provides riveting examples of how equine therapy has become one of today’s most effective, cutting-edge methods of healing where so often traditional therapy and prescription drugs have failed.The natural ability of a horse to accept, without judgment, a soldier with PTSD who has seen or done horrific things, and by so doing, express compassion and benevolent acknowledgment―often preventing suicide―is extraordinary.

At-risk youth in equine programs find that horses don’t judge or criticize them, allowing them to express painful feelings for the first time.