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Book talk and signing with BHC alum Cheryl Eriksen
Tuesday, Dec 3 // 6:30 pm
Join us for a book talk and signing with BHC alum Cheryl Eriksen as she talks about the role horses have played in her life as both healers and teachers.
Tuesday, Dec. 3
6:30 p.m.
East Campus
Building A, first floor, library
Eriksen is the author of three books:
- “Horse Listening: Gratitude, Curiosity and Intention, An Interactive Journal for You and Your Horse”
- “Follow Me, Friend: A Memoir of Undiagnosed PTSD, and the Healing Power of the Horse-Human Relationship”
- “I’ve Never Been to Me: One Woman’s Search for Purpose, and the Horse That Showed Her the Way”
Books will be available for purchase.
For more information, contact Cat Broady in the BHC Library at broadyc@bhc.edu.
About Cheryl L. Eriksen, MSW
Author, horse professional and East Campus graduate
After graduating in 1998, Eriksen trained and showed the APHA circuit for local horseman Danny Conner and worked as a veterinary assistant for the late Dr. Schwerbrock. After leaving Illinois in 2002, Cheryl worked in multiple areas of the horse industry finding her niche working as a horse midwife and prepping sales horses for world-renowned Claiborne Farm in Paris, KY.
In 2009, she returned to school to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work with a focus on equine-assisted therapy. She has developed and taught continuing education courses on equine-assisted psychotherapy as a viable adjunct therapy, and on trauma, resiliency and horse sense for social workers.
Eriksen resides in the historic Bluegrass region of Kentucky, working as a horse midwife for various thoroughbred farms January-May and focusing on her writing, teaching and speaking engagements the rest of the year.
Her memoir, “Follow Me, Friend,” tells the story of living with undiagnosed PTSD from a trauma she had no conscious memory of and the healing she found working with a special horse.
