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Matters · Sep 12, 2020

What I'd Tell My Younger Self: Life With Post-Concussion Syndrome Isn't Worth the Ribbons

“It is clear that you don’t want to hear this, but you need to consider never getting back on a horse again.” The memory of this moment is clear as day. The room starts spinning, my face goes white, and...

Matters · Aug 24, 2020

Equestrian Allies, It's Time to Speak Up

My obsession with horses started years ago when my parents would tote me around the racetrack in Barbados when I was only months old. When I moved to the United States, I was two and horses were no longer a...

Matters · Aug 19, 2020

Why Are So Many Veterinarians in America Being Pushed to the Point of Suicide?

It was just a few weeks before Christmas and Andrea Loar, DVM was having a hard day. An emergency clinic veterinarian, she had seen a difficult case, the kind that lingers long after the tearful clients had left her exam...

Matters · Jun 05, 2020

What Do You Do When Your Safe Place Isn't Safe?

Stephanie Kallstrom was born in Peru (Afro-Peruvian) and lives in British Columbia where she competes in the hunter/jumper ring. Steph is speaking out with a powerful message about racism both inside and outside of the equestrian space. Follow her @stephkall to...

Matters · May 19, 2020

'We Are Afraid of This Virus': Realities of Life, Work for This Nurse and Equestrian on the Front Lines of COVID-19

Before COVID-19 arrived in South Carolina, Angie McDaniel enjoyed the balance she'd struck between her work as an acute care recovery room RN in a level 1 trauma center, and the serenity of her horse farm in the foothills of the Blue...