Horses Helping Cancer Patients

November 15, 2017March 30, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Horses Helping Cancer Patients

by Particular Paws | Posted in Health & Wellness and Horse | January 02, 2017

Winston Churchill once said, “[t]here is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” He couldn’t have spoken truer words when it comes to horsemanship as therapy for cancer patients and survivors. People have long recognized the value of horses and healing going back to the time of the ancient Greece and Hippocrates.

So, it may come as no surprise that horses can offer physical and emotional support during the most trying times. Unlike traditional, medical treatments and therapies, horses give patients an incomparable sense of empowerment. For a patient needing hope, horse therapy helps provide a path to peace and tranquillity.

Benefits of Equine Therapy

Horses helping people The physical and psychological benefits associated with equine therapy are countless. Physically, patients improve balance and coordination. Rebuilding strength and muscle that may have weakened during cancer treatment and prolonged inactivity is of tremendous value.

Healing potential goes far beyond this physical realm. Horseback riding can improve confidence and self-esteem, giving patients a feeling of accomplishment, pride, and sense of universal connectedness. For cancer patients, horses can provide a much-needed distraction from the worry and angst over their condition. Patients can gain a new sense of control through learning to skillfully handle a horse and a sense of pride through accomplishment

These benefits begin with a new setting. Outside of the medical setting, cancer patients can live in the moment and focus on the present. And like other therapy animals, therapy horses offer opportunities to bond with another living thing for improved emotional wellbeing too. Their calming presence can reduce stress in patients coping with enormous emotional challenges. Physically connecting with a majestic horse offers a living connection that doesn’t inquire as to the frail human condition but offers consistent warmth and attention. Unfaltering, the horse will continually respond to both the rider’s commands and softer requests.

Horse Therapy in Action

Many organizations exist that provide horse therapy services to cancer patients and their families. Many common themes underlie these programs that offer welcome support. They focus on both the physical and psychological struggles facing cancer patients and survivors. They understand that the mental challenges often can be as overwhelming as the physical ones.

Horse Power for Life

The Pennsylvania-based organization, Horse Power for Life, harnesses the healing power of companion animals in a 16-week horsemanship program open for people all ages who have been diagnosed with cancer. During this time, individuals become empowered through learning horse care and handling. For people new to horse handling, it’s an opportunity to acquire new skills as they find emotional and psychological healing in the process.

Participants benefit from the social aspects as well as the opportunity to be a caregiver themselves. They can bond with a horse and enjoy the time away while having fun in the process. The program provides a much-needed mental break from the demands of cancer treatment.

Dream Rider Equestrian Therapy

Dream Rider Equestrian Therapy offers its services to individuals with physical and mental challenges, including breast cancer survivors. The organization recognizes the special circumstances of these survivors by providing both physical and emotional health support. It stands unique in that it is a program developed by a breast cancer survivor for others like her.

With its location in Alpine, California, the organization offers a calming atmosphere for its special brand of equine therapy. Horseback riding therapy also includes music therapy to allow riders to connect with their horses while riding to music. When combined, these therapies help patients focus on the present.

Rocky Mountain Riding Therapy

Rocky Mountain Riding Therapy located in Boulder, Colorado provides equine therapy to people suffering from physical, emotional, and mental disabilities. They specifically work on improving muscle tone, sensory processing, cognitive development, increasing confidence, and on emotional well being.

The retreat offered patients an opportunity to bond with horses while taking a break from the clinical setting. Part of their mission is to help each person reach their fullest human potential and to teach horsemanship. It shows another way that equine therapy can help cancer patients, survivors, and others who are afflicted with physical and emotional suffering find hope and strength.

How Horses Help

You may be wondering how horses can help cancer patients and survivors. A study by Cerulliet al. offers some answers. Researchers worked with women who had completed their breast cancer treatment. Subjects participated in a 16-week equine therapy program that included two hours of contact time each week.

After 16 weeks, participants experienced both physical and psychological improvement. They gained strength and improved their fitness levels. These results led researchers to recommend equine therapy as a means to improve the quality of life for cancer survivors as part of the rehabilitation process. This study provided measurable results from therapy horses.

Spending time with horses could provide an excellent way to move from treatment to rehabilitation in a process that addresses the entire experience. While cancer is a physical condition, it also carries a tremendous psychological burden.

Improving Psychological Health

A growing body of evidence exists that show horses offer mental health benefits too. For individuals dealing with cancer, equine therapy offers a way to face the everyday reality of coping with this condition. These unseen aspects of cancer struggle and survival often take a heavy toll on the psychological health of patients.

A study by Earles et al. offers new hope for the ways that horses can help individuals deal with the psychological burden of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Researchers worked with individuals suffering from anxiety and PTSD over a six-week program that revealed incredible results.

Participants completing the session reported less anxiety and depression as well as reduced PTSD symptoms. These are emotions that cancer patients and survivors undoubtedly experience themselves. This study provides more evidence of the natural healing power of horses for individuals in stressful situations.

Therapy horses are one more way that companion animals can help people cope with the stress and anxiety that accompanies some of life’s most difficult challenges. And the great thing about equine therapy is that it provides a holistic approach. It addresses both the physical and mental issues that cancer patients and survivors face every day.

As Churchill reminded us, time spent with horses is good for our souls. Horses teach those who ride and care for them with trust and confidence. And for cancer patients, horses represent hope. They help put things in perspective and allow their rider to enjoy the moment with their equine friends.

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FROZEN LEMON MORE POWERFUL THAN CHEMOTHERAPY

November 12, 2017December 23, 2021Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

It turns out that the best way to consume lemons is to first freeze them and then eat them along with their peel. It seems that we’ve been making a terrible mistake when it comes to lemons because the lemon peel is actually much more health benefits than the fruit and we have been throwing it to waste.

How best to take advantage of this amazing fruit’s skin?

Well first rinse them thoroughly, then toss them in a ziplock bag and put them in the freezer. Wait until they’re completely frozen and grate the whole lemon with a regular grater. You can now add this grated lemon to whichever dish you want, sprinkle it on top your ice-cream or salad or add it to your smoothies and shakes.

Lemon sprinkles will make everything taste better and will add to the meal’s nutritional profile as well. It turns out that the lemon peel contains up to 10 times more vitamins than the fruit’s juice so health experts all across the globe recommend it.

If you start following this rule of thumb when consuming lemons, freezing them and eating them with their peel, you’ll gain far greater health benefits than extracting the lemon juice alone. All the vitamins and other nutrients located in the lemon peel will regenerate every cell and tissue in your body and help your body detox.

Health experts have said that the lemon skin has an effect thousand times more powerful than chemotherapy and plus it doesn’t have any of the adverse side-effects associated with chemo.

The pharmaceutical companies that run this world want to keep this a secret until they find a way to synthesize it and turn it into a drug they can make a profit of but how many people are going to die until then?

Grated frozen lemons are super easy to combine with your food, you can add them to ice cream, salads, soups and so on and take advantage of all the benefits they hold. The best thing about frozen lemon peel is that it’s incredibly effective against all types of cancer, cysts and tumours. Multiple studies on the subject have shown the powerful effect of lemon peel against cancer cells and recommend it as a treatment. Moreover, lemon peels have powerful antibacterial and antimicrobial effect meaning that they’re effective against bacterial and fungal infections as well. They also regulate your blood pressure, have antidepressant effects and eliminate feelings of anxiety and irritability. If this wasn’t enough, lemon peels alkalize your body and regulate the blood’s pH values, promoting optimal health.

Studies have shown that lemon peels can destroy the cancer cells of 12 types of cancer among which one of the deadliest – prostate, colon, pancreatic and lung cancer.

The compounds found in lemon peels, as we already said before, are thousand times more powerful than ADRIAMYCIN, a drug commonly used in chemo but more importantly, the lemon peels only act on the malignant cells, destroying them, while leaving behind the healthy cells without damaging them.

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C 17-44b “Eat What You Want! Stop When You Want!”

October 25, 2017June 17, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 2 Comments

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Sora Vernikoff, on air from October 31st

Today there are 45 million Americans who are planning to go on a diet or are on a diet and have no peace with food. These unhappy dieters might lose their weight in the short run but in reality, 97% of those folks will regain all their weight and more within the three years that follow their
dieted weight-loss.

The dieting industry is a 61 billion dollar weight-loss industry and so that’s what doctors push
it. The bottom line is that there a lot of money at stake in the treatment of obesity. To complicate
matters, Obesity has recently been classified as a disease by the American Medical Association and so that doctors hope that insurers will cover more treatments for obesity and so even though diets
ultimately don’t work that’s what they will prescribe.

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Sora Vernikoff healed herself of compulsive eating over 20 years ago while she was a classroom educator in a Brooklyn inner-city school. One day Sora looked at her challenging 35 fourth graders kids and thought to herself, “Why do these kids listen to me and yet I can’t stop thinking about food or eating?” Sora then stopped dieting, journaled all her eating experiences and let 25 pounds go which she has not regained to this day.

When Sora reached her no dieted weight loss goal, Sora knew that she could transfer her classroom “management” techniques to food “management” techniques and Sora’s Weight Loss “Management” Program was born. The Program as taught to hundreds of unhappy dieters lets you eat what you want, stop when you want and become forever thin and healthy and all without having to diet.

Sora’s Weight Loss “Management” Program as taught in “Eat What You Want! Stop When You Want! A No Diet, Weight-Loss Program” is in a workbook format and is made up of two very special eat and stop yourself techniques. First, there’s The “Green” Technique and then there’s The “Red” Technique. Now, The “Green” Technique lets you first decide how much of the food that you want is enough and then set aside the amount that is “too much” called your “Too” Much Marker. Then you can “eat” the amount that you decided was “enough” amount but not your “Too” Much Marker. This lets you know by Program definition that you have eaten and stopped yourself. The “Red” Technique is similar to The “Green” Technique but is different in the way that it actually works.

There are also three additional no diet, weight-loss “management” strategies in this no diet program that supports The Program User by reducing the amount of time that it will take him to reach his non-dieted weight loss goal.

For more information on how to eat what you want, stop when you want and become forever thin and healthy all without having to diet and the book which teaches this process, visit

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17-41 Changes and Transitions. Love Your Body Love Yourself

October 10, 2017May 22, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

The Wellness Journey with Lynnis Woods-Mullins and her guest Marla Mervis-Hartmann, AIREDOctober 10TH

We just never seemed to be satisfied. We are continually looking for ways to improve ourselves, ways in enhancing our looks, or ways to change our bodies. We are in a constant quest for wanting to be better. Is this really healthy? Is this mindset the best way to achieve wellness for our mind, body, and spirit? Marla Mervis-Hartmann shares with us there is another way to achieve wellness and love our body’s, ourselves as we are …right now!

Marla shares with us her philosophy of how we can begin to give our elves unconditional love. How we can find a sense of n=contentment as we are while embarking on a quest to get healthier and happier through using some simple techniques that work!

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As the creator of Love Your Body Love Yourself, Marla Mervis-Hartmann assists women in finding a “YES!” to that question. After years of struggling with her own dysfunctional body-relationship, Marla has transformed her experiences into services to help women discover honor and appreciation for their bodies. As a professional Marla, has been featured at TEDx Salinas. She was the leading body image expert at Journey Malibu, a Drug/Alcohol rehabilitation center. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son where she works full-time as a professional coach, speaker, facilitator and Living Light Reiki Master and Teacher.

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Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain

September 29, 2017February 16, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

What is Fibromyalgia?

Fibromyalgia (FM) was recognized as a true syndrome (now upgraded to a disease) by the American College of Rheumatology in 1990. FM is thought to exist in 2% to 3% of the population. It occurs in both men and women, but women are affected 6 to 9 times more often than men. In women, FM occurs most commonly between the ages of 30 to 60. FM can also affect teenagers, children, and the elderly. FM has no known cause. Current research into how the nervous system deals with pain has shown that various abnormalities are present in people who have FM.

Other studies have indicated that genetic (inherited) factors may predispose some individuals to develop FM. These genetic factors can affect how the body responds to pain, physical or emotional trauma, and illnesses (such as viral infections).

This work is at the research stage and not yet available for doctors to help diagnose patients with FM in their offices. But this knowledge can be helpful in the management of FM.

DR Ric Arseneau world-renowned specialist on Fibromyalgia

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Sara Shares her journey living with Fibro and Myofascial pain.

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Debra Morga shares her skill in living with Fibromyalgia

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Leisa is a passionate and fierce advocator for invisible chronic illness and volunteers with the B.C. Lupus Society and Arthritis Research Canada to raise awareness for these complicated and debilitating diseases such as Systemic Lupus, Fibromyalgia and Osteoarthritis.

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Coming to terms with pain, by Sam Hawksmoor.

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Fibromyalgia Linked to Gut Bacteria for the First Time

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Fiber-Optic Fascia

You have inside you a cloak of gossamer connective tissue that surrounds and supports everything and functions like fiber optics. This tissue is called fascia.

Fascia is a specialized system of the body that has an appearance similar to a spider’s web or a sweater. Fascia is very densely woven, covering and interpenetrating every muscle, bone, nerve, artery and vein, as well as, all of our internal organs including the heart, lungs, brain and spinal cord. The most interesting aspect of the fascial system is that it is not just a system of separate coverings. It is actually one continuous structure that exists from head to toe without interruption. In this way, you can begin to see that each part of the entire body is connected to every other part by the fascia, like the yarn in a sweater.

Trauma, inflammatory responses, and/or surgical procedures create Myofascial restrictions that can produce tensile pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain sensitive structures that do not show up in many of the standard tests (x-rays, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc.) A high percentage of people suffering from pain and/or lack of motion may be having fascial problems, but are not diagnosed.