The Mustang Diaries: Atlas Found His Family... and a job!!

We are soooooo excited that Atlas has found his family!! Atlas will continue to live at our facility while his new mom and him deepen their bond, develop their skill sets together, and as she integrates him into her business. He's really a workin' man now! It's always a special moment to be part of bringing a horse and person together that were just meant to be...

Charity is a therapist who works with high-risk teens—the ones many people shrug off as untamable, fierce, difficult, dangerous. They arrive with a history of being outpaced, outmaneuvered, or written off. Her practice is called Raising Vibrance, a name that sounds almost lyrical next to the work she does. It’s not a program to fix people into a more manageable frame; it’s a philosophy about amplifying the best version of who they already are.

Atlas is learning to walk beside Charity. He listens not because someone demanded obedience, but because he wants to hear what she will do next. In these moments, the parallels to Raising Vibrance become too clear to ignore. The teens Charity works with are not broken; they are raw with possibility, waiting to be invited into a reciprocation of trust.

In the end, Atlas’s story with Charity is a story about the brightness of possibility when care meets courage. It’s about a practice that refuses to silence the wild or pretend it isn’t part of the human experience. It’s about a horse who carried the weight of a world on his back only to trade it for a heartwide partnership that teaches humans to do the same: to lead without forcing, to guide without breaking, to love enough to stay present when the path feels uncertain.

"I was born a country girl but raised in the city. I have horses in my blood but they didn’t arrive in my life until college. College was the place I got to learn all the things and it’s where I first fell in love with all the school horses. Years later I realized I had full autonomy over my life and budget- and decided that my joy was being in the saddle and on the ground with horses. I didn’t realize I could do it, until my lovely wife pointed out that yes- I could too own a horse.

Now, in the year of the horse- I’ve met my match. I am a therapist who works with high risk teens- often the ones people feel are untamable. They’re wild, they’re fierce- and have a bad reputation of being difficult or stubborn or dangerous. But working with a teen or a mustang truly means partnership and collaboration- learning and connection- which is the same thing I mimic in my practice.

Atlas literally fell into my life, and my business and we have a bright future together helping people understand relationships, parenting and “wild teens”. My practice is literally called Raising Vibrance- because to me it’s never about making them something they aren’t- it’s about supporting the best most focused version of themselves."

-Charity