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NYT Bestselling author | What Looks Like Bravery, Animal Madness | TBD @stanford.med | Middling Horsewoman

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The 2027 calendar for Paintrock Canyon Ranch vacations is open for bookings!

Next year, we’re offering a lineup of five-night stays that include Ranch Vacations, two Advanced Riders weeks, and workshops in horsemanship, writing, painting and food.

Every week is spent on our working cattle ranch below the Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming. You’ll horseback ride, learn from people who run the ranch, and eat dinner at out communal table with no more than fourteen guests.

Ranch vacations are the backbone of our season. You spend a week on horseback exploring the Paintrock’s canyons and other geological formations. Every level is welcome, including complete beginners.

Our wranglers will work with you to match you with the right horse, and our daily riding groups are organized by experience level, so that you can go at whatever pace you feel most comfortable.

Ranch Vacation weeks are available from June to August.

For those who want to maximize riding time, we have two Advanced Riders weeks available, in June and September, for riders comfortable at every gait.

@cam_schryver_riding_lessons will return for two workshops: Working Ranch Horsemanship, which includes cattle work, and Fundamentals of Horsemanship.

We’ll also host creative workshops, including Writing with @laurel_braitman at the end of August

And Capturing the Western Landscape with artist @katierodgers

Finally, during Harvest Season we offer two weeks built around food.

Harvest Week is a ranch vacation week with special dinners that highlight local and seasonal foods with wine pairings, and special nights like a pasture dinner with the horses.

We’re also introducing a special week with naturalist and chef @texas_josh. Each day will center on one type of protein — bison, beef, trout, game birds, and elk — exploring how each food is procured from the land, followed by time in the kitchen every afternoon preparing the evening’s meal.

Every week is based at Camp, set up at the mouth of Paintrock Canyon alongside the creek.

We have a few weeks available for private groups. If you’re interested in more information, send us a message or email and we can share availability.

If you have any qu

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Please join me on Saturday, October 10th, for a virtual Writing Medicine workshop with the amazing @laurel_braitman of @stanfordmedmuse!

We’ll be having a conversation about the craft of narrative medicine, its applications to women’s health, and how we experience the healthcare system as patients ourselves—and exploring a series of writing prompts to inspire you to (I hope!) start crafting your own story too....

Signups here:
www.laurelbraitman.com/workshops/p/writing-medicine-womens-health

More info about Held Together here:
www.rebeccanthompson.com

#narrativemedicine #womenshealth #writingmedicine

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Behind the scenes of @laurel_braitman and @larissafasthorse recent writing workshop at the Paintrock. Words by @jeaniekkdunn #MyRanchlandsStay

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The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles

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“I mean it’s f***ing terrible.” We love you so much @laurel_braitman, always and forever 💙 And we love this throwback podcast clip when you told 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 truth about dating after a death.

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“Jeanie’s going to exorcise her tent.” I hightailed it to @laurel_braitman and @larissafasthorse ‘s workshop at @ranchlands and had a rootin’ tootin’ good time riding, writing, and weirding everyone out. #myranchlandsstay

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Meet your fall keynote: Laurel Braitman — author of Animal Madness and What Looks Like Bravery, founder of Writing Medicine. She’ll challenge you to rethink how the stories you tell shape the way you lead. October 26, 2026 🎤 Link in bio.”

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Meet your fall keynote: Laurel Braitman — author of Animal Madness and What Looks Like Bravery, founder of Writing Medicine. She’ll challenge you to rethink how the stories you tell shape the way you lead. October 26, 2026 🎤 Link in bio.”

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“The trip unfolded into a collection of moments - full moon rise over the canyon walls, fancy champagne in camp mugs, the Princess seat, sparkly capes and crowns, disco balls and blended margaritas, unicorn and flamingo floaties running the Little Colorado rapid, evening gowns in camp chairs, poetry in the morning, Georgie night (in honor of Georgie White, the leopard-print wearing, whitewater rafting pioneer). And sometimes less glamorous but just as unifying ones; pee buckets, the groover, sun rash, sand in everything, a rattlesnake on the groover path.”
Read more at the link in bio!

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Bits and pieces of these truths manifested themselves over the decades, but the learning solidified (somewhat harshly) this past year. As I entered my mid-forties, here are a few things I learned:

1. Trust yourself. Know your truth. Don’t let anyone dictate or re-write your story.

2. Humble yourself. Your truth is not everyone’s truth and may not be believed or acknowledged by others. That’s okay. Those who have eyes, ears and hearts capable of seeing, hearing and feeling your truth will understand you without wasted energy.

3. Love yourself (first). Self-compassion and self-love are divine attributes. They are a must in order to live in and serve with abundance and generosity.

4. Know where you came from. There is deep knowledge and power in the ancestral trauma and ancestral resilience that courses through your blood.

5. But don’t forget where you’re going. Your roots are only the prologue. The rest of the story remains to be written.

Life will unfold as it is meant to. Here’s a tiny snapshot of books, writing, coffee, games, nature, friendship (feline and human), and words of wisdom and strength that helped me see my truth, even when the lens was fogged by adversity.

I am eternally grateful to God for the mercy, compassion, peace and protection He has always bestowed. Even in the face of conflict and heartbreak, the list of things for which to be grateful is endless.

#birthday #reflection

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If Mother’s Day feels heavy this year, you’re not alone. 💐Writer and editor Lily Diamond shared a comforting collection of books for readers moving through grief, longing, or complicated feelings around this upcoming weekend.

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I was twenty-four when my mother died, and books about grief and loss offered communion like no other. This year, for @shereadsdotcom: ten books to read when Mother’s Day hurts—whether because of mother-loss, estrangement, infertility, pregnancy and child loss, unfulfilled dreams of motherhood, family trauma, adoption, or one of myriad other reasons. I got you. Sending love right from my little paw (and my mom’s) to your heart. Link in bio to read in full! Thank you to these brilliant writers:
@harpsincali
@eahanks
@domenicaruta
@laurel_braitman
@jessamine.chan
@iamrebeccawalker
@ihadamiscarriage
@joandidion
@lisadtaddeo
@sloane_crosley

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