Spectrum Spurs, Equine-Assisted Learning

12/08/2025

This holiday season continues to get brighter with these amazing donors ♥️🎄Lucky’s sticking his tongue out with excitement!
Keep choosing love & keep donating.

12/06/2025

Come say hi and donate, spread that holiday cheer! 🎄♥️ Get more information on our program and snap a pic with that jolly old man 🎅🏼

12/05/2025

Our Spectrum Spurs community continues to shine! ✨💚 This donor not only brought canned food for families in need but ALSO generously dontaed supplies for animals. Happy Feet enjoyed sharing a special moment and a handcrafted horseshoe!
Donations accepted through December 19th

12/03/2025

Indy’s bundled up in generosity 🧥🩵
Thank you to these wonderful donors for supporting our community and keeping our local herds warm!!
We are collecting gently used coats (and other items) until December 19th, every little bit helps a local family stay warm!

12/02/2025

Terrific Tuesday moments like this remind us why Spectrum Spurs exists!
With each gentle brush and every quiet moment beside Indy, our little learners discover confidence, patience, and the joy of caring for another being. Horses meet children exactly where they are with softness, trust, and unconditional acceptance. Today, Indy offered all of that and more. 🐴✨
We’re grateful for these small, beautiful steps… because they grow into big victories.

11/29/2025

Feeling stable enough to donate this holiday season? 😉
Help the Spectrum Spurs Holiday Drive and I’ll send you a handmade horseshoe ornament straight from me to your tree! 🎄🐴

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from our herd to yours! 🧡
I am feeling extra thankful today for Spectrum Spurs, the incredible individuals who are growing with us, and the beautiful horses who make this program possible!
Watching our herd support our learners and watching our clients grow in confidence, connection, and peace reminds me every day why this work matters.
I am grateful for every session, every breakthrough, and every shared moment.

11/25/2025

It is beautiful watching our community come together. Keep helping each other. Keep choosing love.

11/24/2025

"If you're showing up kindly, you're doing enough" 😌

Horses don’t wake up with a diary full of performance goals. They’re not standing at the gate thinking, “I hope she schools me in a perfect 20-metre circle today.”

Their world is simpler and more honest. Safety. Predictability. Comfort. Herd. Food. Space. Rhythm. That’s the entire ecosystem of their wellbeing.

When we choose not to ride, we are not depriving them of something vital.
We are actually honouring their natural priorities.

Most days, what your horse wants is for you to show up with steady energy and a soft nervous system. They read the tension in your jaw, the rush in your footsteps, the way you hold your breath when you’re stressed. They know. And they respond.

A horse would rather stand with you quietly than carry you while you’re wound tight.

A horse would rather have a peaceful grooming session than be pushed through 45 minutes of schooling with winter wind rattling the arena boards.

A horse would rather feel you regulate beside them than feel you compensate on their back.

We often forget that riding is a human invention, not a horse requirement. What horses seek is harmony. A safe companion. Someone predictable enough that their bodies can settle next to ours.

When you decide not to ride because you’re tired, or the ground is frozen, or your brain is doing that loud static thing, you’re not failing. You’re speaking the horse’s language.

A regulated human is more valuable to them than a mounted one.

They don’t judge you for walking them to the field instead of tacking up. They don’t measure your worth by hours ridden. They care that you’re safe company. That you don’t bring storms into their space. That when you do ask something of them, it comes from clarity rather than pressure.

Some horses genuinely thrive when riding takes a step back for a little while. Their bodies get a breather. Their minds get space. Their relationship with you gets to be about connection rather than task.

If you’re showing up kindly, you’re doing enough.
If your horse is eating well, moving freely, living in a routine that makes sense to them, you’re doing enough.

And in the quiet seasons, the bond often grows deeper. Because horses remember who sits with them in the stillness.

11/23/2025

We are very excited to support Gloucester City Youth Soccer in their fundraising event tonight! Thank you for supporting and expanding our community, we hope to see y’all on the soccer field and in our barn 🫶🏼

11/20/2025

FIRST DONATION ALERT 🚨 🥳
Thank you to our wonderful donor kicking off our Holiday Donation Drive with a bag of dog food! Your generosity helps us support local families (and their furry friends) in need.
Keep the donations coming, herd! 🐴💛