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"At the age of thirty-seven, Courtney Maum finds herself in an indoor arena in Connecticut, moments away from stepping back into the saddle. For her, this is not just a riding lesson, but a last-ditch attempt to pull herself back from the brink even though riding is a relic from the past she walked away from. She hasn't been on or near a horse in over thirty years. Although Courtney does know what depression looks like, she finds herself refusing to admit, at this point in her life, that it could look like her: a woman with a privileged past, a mortgage, a husband, a healthy child, and a published novel. That she feels sadness is undeniable, but she feels no right to claim it. And when both therapy and medication fail, Courtney returns to her childhood passion of horseback riding as a way to recover the joy and fearlessness she once had access to as a young girl. As she finds her way, once again, through the physical and emotional landscapes of riding, Courtney becomes reacquainted with herself not only as a rider but as a mother, wife, daughter, writer, and woman. Alternating timelines and braided with historical portraits of women and horses alongside history's attempts to tame both parties, The Year of the Horses is an inspiring love letter to the power of animals-and humans-to heal the mind and the heart"--… (altro)
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Courtney Maum's memoir The Year of the Horses is honest, raw, and heartfelt. She details a childhood fraught with emotionally distanced parents amid a highly-privileged lifestyle and then marriage and anxiety-filled motherhood, threading throughout the role--and the absence--of horses through the years. This culminates in her recent healing through her rediscovery of equines.
I'm almost the same age as her, so we're the same generation. When she had a whole chapter centered around the trauma of The NeverEnding Story, oh yeah, I got that. I felt much more distanced from the high privilege of her youth--she might as well have lived on a different planet from me in some regards. However, as someone who was a horse-crazy girl who has anxiety and depression, I felt like we had more in common than not. It's a powerful book that is not about easy answers, but about works-in-progress and struggling to accept that. ( )
"At the age of thirty-seven, Courtney Maum finds herself in an indoor arena in Connecticut, moments away from stepping back into the saddle. For her, this is not just a riding lesson, but a last-ditch attempt to pull herself back from the brink even though riding is a relic from the past she walked away from. She hasn't been on or near a horse in over thirty years. Although Courtney does know what depression looks like, she finds herself refusing to admit, at this point in her life, that it could look like her: a woman with a privileged past, a mortgage, a husband, a healthy child, and a published novel. That she feels sadness is undeniable, but she feels no right to claim it. And when both therapy and medication fail, Courtney returns to her childhood passion of horseback riding as a way to recover the joy and fearlessness she once had access to as a young girl. As she finds her way, once again, through the physical and emotional landscapes of riding, Courtney becomes reacquainted with herself not only as a rider but as a mother, wife, daughter, writer, and woman. Alternating timelines and braided with historical portraits of women and horses alongside history's attempts to tame both parties, The Year of the Horses is an inspiring love letter to the power of animals-and humans-to heal the mind and the heart"--
Courtney Maum's memoir The Year of the Horses is honest, raw, and heartfelt. She details a childhood fraught with emotionally distanced parents amid a highly-privileged lifestyle and then marriage and anxiety-filled motherhood, threading throughout the role--and the absence--of horses through the years. This culminates in her recent healing through her rediscovery of equines.
I'm almost the same age as her, so we're the same generation. When she had a whole chapter centered around the trauma of The NeverEnding Story, oh yeah, I got that. I felt much more distanced from the high privilege of her youth--she might as well have lived on a different planet from me in some regards. However, as someone who was a horse-crazy girl who has anxiety and depression, I felt like we had more in common than not. It's a powerful book that is not about easy answers, but about works-in-progress and struggling to accept that. ( )