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Michelle Goss, is a horse-guided life coach with Spirit Mountain Healing
Services, a 501c3 nonprofit organization in Gilbert, Arizona.

At Spirit Mountain Healing Services, she works with individuals and in
partnership with organizations nationwide to broaden the healing impact of
equine-assisted learning. It is a specialized life coaching method where the
intuitive nature of horses is utilized to reflect where growth and healing is

needed. Her coaching skills come into play in building life skills in
communication, self-awareness, confidence, personal growth/development,
leadership skills, life-changing breakthroughs, and more.
Michelle's purpose is to share these unique and empowering horse-guided
life coaching experiences through Spirit Mountain Healing Services.
Education: Bachelor of Science in Equine Science, a Minor in Small Business,
and a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Psychology in Equine Assisted
Mental Health.

By Michelle Goss

People have known horses have the innate It is having the understanding that giving
ability to read and reflect what people are yourself to someone is dynamic. It changes
feeling at any particular moment in time for every day according to what the day brings.
centuries. Horses have often been called “the There is no such thing as a fifty/fifty type of
mirror to the human soul.” Horses live in the relationship. This is what is meant by dynamic.
present moment because they are prey Just as life is ever-changing, so are
animals and that is key to their survival. relationships on a daily basis. Through
Humans can learn to live in the present working with horses in the life coaching
moment as well by working with horses process, one of the biggest insights into not
through horse-guided life coaching activities. giving all of yourself in a relationship is that “I
By living in the present moment rather than have the right to keep a percentage of me for
the past or future, behavior patterns can be me every day.” It is learning to yourself first
acknowledged and shifted to help a person so that you can be the best
learn to become a more balanced and happier person/mother/father/friend there is. If you
person. are constantly exhausted because you have
not kept anything for yourself and have given
Working with horses in horse-guided life it all to the relationship and others, then how
coaching sessions can really teach you about can you be there for others when they need
how much of yourself to give to someone you? Through working with horses, you can
else. Many people, especially women, tend to learn to take yourself back and start learning
give all of themselves in relationships and it to do more things for yourself without the
can leave them empty and exhausted. Many worry about giving everything you have to a
people have heard that you shouldn’t give all relationship and to others. Without giving all
of yourself in a relationship all of the time. myself to someone else, there is a
That when you do give all of yourself in a percentage of me left for me. By learning to
relationship, there is nothing left for you and put one’s self first through working with
it can leave a person wondering “what about horses, you can be better able to stand up for
me and what is in the relationship for me?” It yourself and be able to better handle life’s
becomes a cycle that never ends; giving all of challenges head-on. Through working with
yourself becoming exhausted and then horses, you can learn “I am the only one
starting all over again, until you find the responsible for my well-being.”
power and courage to change it.
“Horses bring us back to simplicity so we can
process the complexity of our lives”.

Michelle Goss, Spirit Mountain Healing Services
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