For the Love of Aria

07/09/2025

In the hard we are also trying to figure out how to make our organization more self sustainable so we can help even more horses🩵 Incredibly grateful for this grant for our Charlie’s Legacy- A Labor of Love program💜

Hopefully we have more news soon about a few others but I promise we are trying to figure it out🙌 Until then we are so grateful for all of your support and love for and because of them🤍🩶🖤🤎

07/09/2025

💜💔Wild Wednesday💔💜

As we head to Sand Wash Basin today my emotions are all over the place and honestly I should be doing a million other things instead of what I’m doing😱

So I wanted to share why I am making this decision. No one tells you when you fall in love with the wild ones in their rightful home that it will make you do things you never imagined😱 But it does🩵

This is what they are losing💔 What we are losing😭 There is truly nothing like it in the world and their freedom is truly our freedom💜

So we will go and we will say hello and most likely goodbye to some old friends who changed our lives eight years ago🥰 Because that is what you do when you can’t really explain how hard this is😔 You go be with the ones who understand🙏🖤🩶🤍🤎

Huge thank you to Beth Brett for going down memory lane with me in their honor and letting me use these images to hopefully help you see why this is so hard and so important to us😭💔

07/08/2025

I swear last post today💜 On our way home last night we got the list of horses who went into the trap in Sand Wash Basin💔 And everything we had just done kind of felt “less”😭 But I refused to let it overshadow the amazing thing we had just done🩵 So when I did the Kiamichi and Ether reel, I picked this song. And I have used parts of it for other reels but today I wanted to know all the words. So for anyone else who needs them today, here you go❤️

Tomorrow we will head to the basin for many reasons but mostly because we can🤍

FREEDOM COME TONIGHT W/ LYRICS - Charlie Peacock (feat. Brandon Heath)Please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkTMgMEDDzIa3a...

07/08/2025

🩵Tuesday Truth🩵

There are so many things we don’t talk about because it doesn’t really help anything for us to talk about how hard all of this is. We made a choice to do this so we do it. And if we change our minds at some point, we will never have to wonder if we tried hard enough. But there are times I think it is good for you to know some things.

No one really talks about the emotions and exhaustion of carrying out decisions. Even when the ending or new beginning is the best🙌💜And yes absolutely I’m just going to share the good with you because there are no pretty images or videos of the complicated. So you will have to trust me, it’s complicated. Whether it’s relief that everything went well, sadness that things change, often questioning if it was the right thing, sometimes knowing it was right but it still brings emotions, overthinking everything or having to deal with all the other hard things happening in the background that we don’t talk about, even good “missions” have a “letdown” or “decompression” time. And learning to feel all of it to move forward is the only way I know not to let it make me physically sick. Because that’s what it used to do. I pretended it was all easy and the good always overrides the bad. But it doesn’t and that’s just the honest truth. Everything we are doing is putting the horses first even if others are not. We made a commitment to them and we will always honor it. But it all affects us.

Today I am grateful for a family and a team that understands all of it and shows me so much grace🥹

And I’m grateful for the horses that can handle my emotions without taking them on as not all of them can when we have such an incredible bond❤️

Pictured is Ayla who is only four years old but has been my greatest teacher and partner for twelve years😱

We have a special visitor coming today so I will also enjoy every minute with the horse and the human because this is a gift to spend time with others honoring the mustangs🥳🖤🩶🤍🤎

















Thank you Stacy Cushing McClure for capturing this emotional picture with Alley on that fateful day in October😭

07/07/2025

💜Mustang Montana Monday💜

Leaving a huge piece of my heart in Big Sky Montana🩵

Kiamichi you will always have my heart but I know you are exactly where you need to be and we are eternally grateful we can now make this happen💜

If you remember, McCullough Peaks Kiamichi, age 11 (now 12) was one of the stallions who had to wait a little longer to get out of holding due to gelding complication😔 I didn’t know these horses but I made a commitment to them❤️ And he is considered a senior mustang. And I saw crazy wild videos of him. One he literally pins Las Vegas to the ground😱 So we decided as an organization tp help him and Istaga who needed his eye removed. We picked up Kiamichi in November and put him in our “wildest” ones paddock that is 10 feet high! And I was ready for him to be so wild. So imagine my surprise when I could touch him on day 5😵 Yes I knew he was shut down but his willingness still surprised me. So I kept going and a part of me wanted this boy to be gentled so he could stay🥳 I wanted to be wrong about him. And he was so kind and forgiving, I initially thought I was wrong. I absolutely was not💔 I will tell his story in multiple posts because it’s A LOT and you need to hear the entire story so please keep following “our” story🧡

He literally did everything I asked with kindness . . . . and then . . . .

Thank you Stacy Cushing McClure for this image of him in our paddock😍

Can you see and feel the wild? Or do you see and feel softness and willingness?

07/06/2025

On their last day inside a small space🥹 McCullough Peaks Kiamichi and Devils Garden Ether who came to us from Mackenzie at Wild at Heart Equine Gentling, LLC will be released on 4000 beautiful acres today💚

Moments after this picture was taken I asked Kiamichi to get on the trailer and he quickly said of course❤️ The haul to Montana was long but uneventful🙏 When they got off the trailer, I reminded him, there will be no more questions from me😭 And in that moment, we both knew we had honored each other and ourselves🩵

More soon once I can get through writing it without so many tears💜

So grateful to Return To Freedom, Wild Horse Conservation for this amazing connection with our human hero Joan💖 They will be released with four senior geldings from North Lander who had no bids so of course she stepped in to help🙌🧡🤎🤍🩶🖤

Please remember any horse of ours that goes to sanctuary is still supported by our organization as we absolutely make a life time commitment to each one🤍

07/06/2025

From Sandy at Wild at Heart Images-Wildlife and Nature Photography❤️

The petition was created by our friend, Wanderlust Wild Horses by Hollynn and friends under the nonprofit organization Alliance for the Protection of Wild Equines. They created this out of a desire to offer a revenue positive solution to manage wild horses in Wyoming as an alternative to their current plan to zero out Salt Wells Creek and drastically reduce the number of horses in other areas.

If you could spare a few moments, please sign and share the petition.

Thank you all so much for caring❤

A Revenue Positive Plan to Maintain Wild Horse Populations in Wyoming

07/05/2025

He would literally do anything for me🩵 And that is why he gets his freedom back💔😭🙌💜

I promise to tell his story here as it is so powerful but for now you can “ride” with us on our freedom ride for two on Patreon🧡

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07/04/2025

Leave it to our friends at The Wild Horse Refuge to make us smile today🙌❤️🤍💙

Sand Wash Basin Lucky who we got to the Refuge last year got her title yesterday so she is now forever home, wild and free as she was meant to be💖 And we are forever grateful to Pat and Monica and their entire team💜