Welcome back to Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD! This week I’m joined by psychotherapist, supervisor, energy worker and Equine Assisted Psychotherapist, Louise Yourell.

I met Louise a few months back at an IACP walk-and-talk supervision session she was facilitating in Mullingar and I’ve been looking forward to this interview ever since.

We talk about:

· what happens when a horse becomes part of your therapy team (spoiler alert: they help regulate your nervous system before you even realise you needed it)

· how knitting and crochet help her overwhelmed AuDHD mind

· the divine feminine and

· new for this episode: The Cardamom Pod Question (who would you throw them for?).

As always, we run it through the FEEL. LOVE. HEAL. framework you may want to go stand barefoot in the grass and turn your face to the sun.

Grab your headphones (or your knitting) and settle in!

le grá (with love),

Ev3

CHAPTERS

2:40 Louise’s work and how she found Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

4:39 Grounding with horses and the power of the breath

6:49 Self-care, animals and making space to regulate

11:24 Knitting, crochet and calming an AuDHD mind

13:43 The divine feminine and connecting with something bigger

15:29 Simple ways to ground yourself

17:38 Community, collective care and tackling bullying

21:48 Who would you throw cardamom pods for?

24:59 Raising awareness of equine-assisted psychotherapy

26:32 What horses can reveal about ourselves

28:23 What Louise would send her younger self

30:20 Grounding the episode

LINKS

westmeathcounsellingservice.ie

https://www.instagram.com/westmeath_counselling/

https://www.instagram.com/louise_healingwithhorses/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Mental-Health-Service/Westmeath-Counselling-Service-762432063804769/

https://www.equineassistedpsychotherapyireland.com/

https://www.eagala.org/

https://www.instagram.com/equine_assisted_psychotherapy/

Joanne Pasternak and the Moon Tribe https://www.instagram.com/joanne.pasternak/

Sisters of Defiance with Anita Rani

https://www.megganwatterson.com/

https://solestosoul.ie/beyond-burnout/

If you enjoyed this, check out:

Episode 83: Community as self-care with Elizabeth Potts

Episode 104: Excitement without AuDHD Burnout

Episode 106: Working with the Divine Feminine

Episodes 20 and 114: the Moon Mná interviews with Dr Karen Ward

Choose your own adventures: New adventures in the works including Inner Child Play, Stop Self Loathing, Move Past People Pleasing and Purpose, Meaning and Joy

https://solestosoul.ie/adventures/

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