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    Thrust From Life’s Saddle: How a Horse Guided Me Home

    by Sasha Lipskaia Jun 11, 2021 2 minutes
    Thrust From Life’s Saddle: How A Horse Guided Me Home, by Sasha Lipskaia. Photograph of woman on horse by Fernando Puente
    Photograph by Fernando Puente

    Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

    Being dumped from a horse reminded one woman to live as herself, no longer trying to become someone else’s idea of her, in a role that wasn’t hers to fill

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    I have experienced many ‘awakenings to myself’.

    I want to tell you of one that shook me profoundly — one that guided me to trust and start my path as

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