The Stable Relief Trauma Project

The Stable Trauma Relief project is fundamentally a Not For Profit organisation, that supports people from rural or regional communities who have been impacted by natural disasters, using somatic equine therapy, and drawing upon the platform of horses to support the processing of the trauma and it’s working collectively with the Mallacoota people, and supporting these fractures in the town to repair.

Everybody has trauma and goes through things in their life that need to be processed. And, everybody processes things, in a different way.

And I really have a lot of time and support for the sort of somatic therapy, and the equine therapy that Emily’s doing. And I know that it was a really big initiative that Dr. Sarah Remwick-Lau supported, and really saw the value in that.

We’re working with nervous systems that are still in survival mode. And when they’re in survival mode, it impacts relationships. And so relationships that have been really solid for decades have been impacted as everyone’s sort of, not quite sure what’s safe and what’s not safe anymore.
People who’ve been in fire really do need to talk out and have some strategies for recovery and getting back on their feet.

For Emily, I’m really inspired by her work and her approach and her dedication to communities who are doing it tough.

To think that people had gone through that trauma, and then, the devastation afterwards, and then, knowing that there was going to be such a long road to recovery. We really need to take our hat off to these communities who do that with such resilience, and, pride and with honour.