Pasture Therapy: Finding Stillness in the Field

I don’t think I understood what true stillness felt like until the first time I stepped onto my friend Chelsey Milton’s ranch. Chelsey—owner of Bar Milton Ranch and one of the most grounded, intuitive women I know—invited me to try something she called Pasture Therapy. I didn’t ask many questions. I just trusted her. And looking back, I’m so grateful I did, because it changed something in me. It changed something in my children. It changed the way we move through the world.

Pasture Therapy isn’t a treatment or a technique. It isn’t a class or a lesson. It’s an experience. It’s what happens when you step outside—really outside—and let the land, the silence, and the animals meet you exactly where you are.

That morning at the ranch, the sun was just climbing over the hills. The air felt like the perfect cold mountain inhale. My children ran ahead of me, their tiny boots crunching in the frosted grass, and I watched as the horses lifted their heads, curious but calm, like they already understood why we were there.

There’s something almost spiritual about being on open land with animals who live fully in the present moment. Horses don’t rush you. Cows don’t judge you. Mini cows—my personal emotional support creatures—somehow know exactly when to wander over, look you in the eyes, and melt something you’ve been holding tight for far too long.

In the pasture, time slows in a way that feels unfamiliar at first. You can hear your own breathing. You can hear your children laughing from somewhere beyond the fence line. You can feel the earth under your feet—its steadiness, its history, its quiet promise that everything you need to come back to is right here.

The beauty of Pasture Therapy is that nothing is expected of you. You’re not performing. You’re not chasing. You’re not proving. You’re just being. And in that being, something softens. Something reconnects. Something inside you that forgot how to breathe deeply remembers.

My children felt it too. I watched them become gentler, more patient, more curious. They weren’t distracted. They weren’t overwhelmed. They were present—fully, beautifully present—in a way that only nature and animals can teach. They talked to the horses. They sat in the grass. They followed the mini cows as if they were old friends.

There’s a spirituality to it—a depth that’s hard to put into words. It's a reminder that grounding doesn’t happen in perfectly curated environments; it happens in real soil, real silence, real connection. It happens when you’re standing shoulder to shoulder with a friend, letting the land hold the conversation for you. It happens when the world feels too loud, and the pasture gives you permission to whisper.

Pasture Therapy became one of the most meaningful rituals of our move, our motherhood, our healing, and our growing. It’s something I want to share with this community because it’s more than an activity—it’s a way of reconnecting with who you are when the noise falls away.

And because this experience wouldn’t exist in my life without her, I’ll be sitting down with the woman who introduced me to it all—Chelsey Milton. In our conversation, she’ll share how Pasture Therapy came to be, why the land teaches us differently than anything else, and how this gentle, intuitive practice has shaped her life and the lives of so many others.

Stay tuned for our interview. It’s a special one.