I’m the writer of the Prayers of Honoring series, written to restore bonds between people and nature while healing interior patterning and spiritual/religious trauma. In 2019, I wrote Goldmining the Shadows: Honoring the Medicine of Wounds, the companion to my 2017 book, Boundaries & Protection: Honoring Self, Honoring Others.
My 2023 release is The Wound Makes the Medicine, published by Row House Publishing.
I recently completed an all-ages illustrated book, Earth Is Holding You, with my dear friend, artist Flora Bowley.
I’m currently creating the fourth installment in the Prayers of Honoring series, as well as a book of poetry.
I’ve created over fifty original online educational courses applying integrative transformative practice, animal and plant studies, and the Medicine Circle into self-healing soul work.
I’ve found, through walking a secular, earth-based spiritual path, that it’s challenging to heal while possessed by our developmental wounds, shadows, binary projections, hesitance to set boundaries, unproductive communication habits, religious traumas and the living effects of colonialism. We are a sensitive people who have learned to automatically shut down our relationship to our bodies when we become emotionally dysregulated. The way we have been conditioned to live on earth (rather than in it) lends to high stress and adrenal arousal, even when we are not in immediate danger. This has led to a kind of spiritual sickness that manifests in our bodies and diminishes our quality of life and our relationships.
My books aim to help individuals sort through the influences that are blocking connection to greater sources of peace and wisdom. The driving force behind all of my work is helping humans restore liberation to themselves and vitality to Earth, simultaneously. All that I share is influenced by earth-centered sensibilities.
I received my training as a healer between 1999-2012. I grew up amid farms, ranches, animals and wildlife in the San Joaquin Valley of California. I studied literature and art at Cal State Northridge, currently studying indigenous liberation and sovereignty at Oregon State University. I am an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
I was born Cherie Dawn Carr in 1971. I’ve been called Pixie for a long time. I write as Lighthorse to honor the unheard voices of my Choctaw, Creek and Chickasaw ancestors. I live in Central Oregon now, on land ceded under pressure to Oregon Territory in the Treaty of 1855 by Paiute, Wasco and Warm Springs tribal chiefs.
I’m healing myself, just as you are. I’m glad you’re here. I hope my work touches you and helps you move forward.
Images of Pixie by Heaven McCarthur, landing page image edited by Stacy de la Rosa, design by The Alchemy of Design.
How I Got Here