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A High Hopes volunteer gets a therapy horse ready for a ride.
Mark was diagnosed with PTSD shortly after retiring from 30 years of service in the Air Force. “I was in a very very dark place spiraling downward,” he recalled. “I did not want to go on like that but I couldn’t see a way of moving forward.”
In 2016, Mark enrolled in a therapeutic horseback riding program at High Hopes. That’s where he met therapeutic riding horse, Latino, and began his journey back to life as a civilian.
“It was almost as if my physical pain, hopelessness, and the depression that I had inside evaporated,” Mark recalled. “I could feel how peaceful and genuine he was. Seeing Latino weekly gave me something
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