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This is the Feathermane Soul Blogcast for June

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13th, 2026.

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Horse Wisdom.

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Horses teach us forgiveness.

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The fly mask sat on the table next

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to the door in my office, ready to

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go out for one of the older mares

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who I noticed was having a lot of

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trouble with flies around her eyes.

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It's been a crazy week with a cat

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emergency, which luckily turned out to be not

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that bad, a few appointments, and trying to

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juggle various things.

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This afternoon I took the lead rope, just

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in case I needed to keep her close.

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Some treats and the fly mask out, and

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within five minutes she had it on.

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Though I'm sure she wondered just what the

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heck I was doing to her, though she

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is one of the few horses that can

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keep on a fly mask, she got plenty

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of treats and now had her fly mask

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and all was well.

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Senior heart mare who was eating her lunch

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looked for treats, found none, and went back

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to eating.

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Likewise, her daughter, who was always available for

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treats, stuck out her nose, then went back

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to waiting for her mom.

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No one seemed upset that I hadn't brought

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treats for them.

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I'll bring some when I open the gates

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here in about half an hour.

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And no one held a grudge.

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Treats today?

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Nope, not today.

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Okay, maybe tomorrow.

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If only we could forgive so easily.

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For many of the neurodivergent community, we also

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live with rejection-sensitive dysphoria, RSD, where not

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only do we feel the sting of rejection

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of being left out of the treat dispensing,

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as it were, more accurately than others, but

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also we see personal rejection where there was

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one and are quick to take steps to

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avoid rejection, even if the possibility is remote.

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Now let me be clear.

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As with so many things, I'm not saying

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we need to immediately change how we think

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about things and our RSD will go away,

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but as someone who deals with it on

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a regular basis, I have learned from the

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horses.

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Although horses live in the moment and we

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do not, I have found that mindfulness and

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being present can help.

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And most of all, I've learned from the

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horses to forgive myself when the RSD comes

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to the fore.

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I've stopped grousing about my stupid anxiety or

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talked about my crazy-ass mind.

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Instead, I acknowledge that this is how my

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mind is, just as a horse deals with

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a sunny day or a stormy day and

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I practice radical acceptance.

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Though we don't know the inner worlds of

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horses, I imagine that they practice radical acceptance

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too.

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If it's thunderstorming, they run into the shelter

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and wait it out.

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If it's hot, they stick close to the

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shade and water troughs.

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When the weather is nice, they take advantage

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of it and go out into the pasture

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to graze.

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The radical acceptance teaches us to forgive, not

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of everything, but of the little things and

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of ourselves.

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And that is the highest wisdom of all,

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learning to forgive ourselves.

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