We Can Do Brave Things

Facing our fears to live authentically

My mother was terrified of horses. When she was a little girl, she saw a terrible accident involving a horse and she never got over it. Because of that, she would never let me near a horse which instilled a fear of horses in me. I remember one day in 5th grade asking if I could go to a friend’s farm to ride horses and my mother screamed “NO” so quickly …