Patricia Broersma loved horses as a kid and shifted from pre-med to literature in college where she met her husband. They were introduced to the Ecumenical Institute (renamed the Institute for Cultural Affairs) in Chicago and moved to San Antonio. Trish got involved in competitive horse show work, was led to a Jean Houston workshop in Houston, and moved to Ashland, OR where her therapeutic riding work began to focus on using mythic stories with her young, 'troubled' teens (and others). Riding Beyond is her present work with breast cancer survivors.