Owner of hoof to heart healing lLC, Carla Danesi RD/LD and PATH Intl certified eSMHL, began this business back in 2020 with a dream of one day providing equine and nutrition therapy to veterans and first responders. She has been a registered dietitian since 2013, growing her medical nutrition therapy skills to help patients better manage diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease and weight management. Coming from a family where her father and grandfather served in the military she had a great desire to serve this great country by serving those who Sacrificed for our freedoms.

As a child Carla would go to the local barn after school and in the summers. She cleaned stalls, fed, watered and helped care for the horses in exchange for riding lessons but never had a horse to call her own. After a life altering event in 2018 Carla decided it was time to stop focusing all her energy working her life away and start focusing on her dream to own a horse, so she bought her first horse, Tank! Her journey with tank taught her more about her own struggles with anxiety and that whole “suck it up,””fake it till you make it” mentality was just not working and making her Physically sick. Tank is a tough ranch horse that will bull doze through tall brush, go head first into a herd of cows to move them along and has no fears swimming in the dark ocean waters. Yet he is very sensitive to humans Energy, especially Carla’s, and has no problems letting her know exactly how much she’s freaking him out!

Being a type a personality, go getter, that never liked to show her emotional weakness she began to see how much her energy affected tank and herself in ways traditional therapy never did. her love, compassion and desire to improve her bond with tank pushed her to make changes she never even knew she needed to make before! Seeing how much tank helped her she wanted to share this amazing experience with others. she took courses to become certified to do equine assisted learning and when friends or family that served came to visit tank she practiced with them. Hearing their thoughts about the experiences just encouraged her to continue on the path to creating this business!

Carla knew she needed a special place to create these memorable experiences on a professional level. And of course another horse to share the love so this past year she bought the property and toasty! Toasty is a retired police horse, who she Lovingly calls “old man.” Toasty loves to eat and nap and is quite particular on which humans he interacts with where tank is very friendly and loves attention. toasty is stoic around most people, trying to “size them up” and he lets carla know right away if he is not a fan of a persons energy. Carla continues to learn more about toasty every day and she finds his expressions about peoples energies Insightful. His response to her energy differs from Tanks response so she is currently Reevaluating herself to continue improving. Life is a never ending journey of growth so come see if talking to tank or toasty can help you on your journey to self improvement!