Grace, Grit & Gratitude:

A cancer thriver’s journey from hospice to full recovery with the healing power of horses

To the outside eye it looked like Tara was living the perfect life in the suburbs with her musician husband, successful Pilates studio and mixed Brady Bunch like family. What the outside world didn’t see is the pivotal event that turned her life upside down.

Grace, Grit and Gratitude is one woman’s story of a profound bond with horses that carried her through nine years of pain, trauma, cancer and the challenges of loss. It is about finding the courage to face one’s shadow in the darkest hour. Learn how the ancient principles of death and rebirth from the Mesopotamian Goddess, Inanna, has saved more than just one life.

Follow one woman's spiritual journey of pain, perseverance and discovery with the unexpected power of her horses and ancient teachings as her guide.

A portion of the sale of each book will be donated to The Wild Beauty Foundation, an organization that works to raise awareness for the wild horses of North America. As Tara’s mustang, Comanche has had a profound impact upon her life, she is passionate about supporting this important cause!

The Wild Beauty Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to illuminating key issues wild and domestic horses are facing today, while also bringing the incredible, therapeutic world of horses to children and families. Founded by filmmakers Ashley Avis and Edward Winters, WBF seeks to raise awareness through film, education, and adoption.

For more info & for how you can get involved, please visit: The Wild Beauty Foundation

Embark on a journey with the Goddess Inanna & horse-inspired wisdom as your guides

Tara Coyote is the founder of Wind Horse Sanctuary, a certified Eponaquest ‘Equine Facilitated Learning’ instructor, life coach, workshop leader, writer and dancer.The incredible healing power of horses is a central theme to Tara’s story as her bond with horses carried her through one adversity after another. It is through this equine relationship that she found the resilience, love and endurance to find beauty, even in the darkest hour. You will find her happily scooping horse manure on Kaua’i, Hawaii!

Read the buzz about the book:

Tara is not just a heroine willing to face the supernatural trials of the goddess Inanna, she is my hero. Through this book, I learned so many things I will use when supporting family, friends and clients through the kinds of challenges that always leave me feeling tongue tied and hopelessly inept. Just as important, I have gained confidence in facing my own mortality as it arises through circumstances that offer the gift of transformation whenever we, like Tara, embrace the deeper wisdom of life, with all its imperfections, challenges, and, most importantly, intense moments of beauty every step along the way.

My heart swells with gratitude to have had the opportunity to play a small part in teaching Tara about healing her body. I’m so proud of her and for her. I know that her story, through the pages of this book, will be an inspiration to countless women around the world.

Linda Kohanov
Author of The Tao of Equus, Riding between the Worlds
and other books on the healing potential of the horse-human bond

As Tara so beautifully describes in her book, healing the physical body isn’t just about getting rid of the physical cancer but more about the emotional cancers that lie deep within us and prevent us from living up to our human potential.

In Grace, Grit and Gratitude, Tara has gifted us with an honest account of a journey none of us would choose yet she has found a way to dance through it both physically and metaphorically. Spurred on by the turmoil of a life-threatening disease and major life changes, she invites us all to join in to find the grace that is available to us beyond even living and dying. From the gritty details of her healing protocol to understanding the larger lessons life presents, this book left me full of gratitude and inspiration to find the opportunities to taste the sweetness of life.

Dr. Véronique Desaulniers
Breast Cancer Conqueror
Author of Heal Breast Cancer Naturally

The moment I met Tara, I knew she was special. The warmth of her smile, her beautiful presence, and her cheerful outlook on life is rare and almost always comes as a reward of a tough trauma. Having gone through cancer myself, I can very much relate to Tara’s journey, especially about coming out whole on the other side. This is a book worth reading!

Stormy May – Creator & author of ‘The Path of the Horse’ book & film

The moment I met Tara, I knew she was special. The warmth of her smile, her beautiful presence, and her cheerful outlook on life is rare and almost always comes as a reward of a tough trauma. Having gone through cancer myself, I can very much relate to Tara’s journey, especially about coming out whole on the other side. This is a book worth reading!

Fabian Bolin - CEO & Co-founder of War on Cancer

A journey of incredible honesty, vulnerability, bravery, power, and ALOHA. One of the most profound things Tara teaches us through the embodiment of her journey is the lesson of perspective. I am grateful for her ability to affirm how perspective ultimately designs the experience, and the outcome of an experience. This is how Tara has most inspired me!

Ke’oni Hanalei – Pohala Botanicals

It would take a whole other book to detail my awe and appreciation for Tara Coyote's journey and her dedication to the truth. As she cultivated the power of intuition to listen to the messages her body sent through the medium of cancer, and the power of her mind in order to re-program her body to express 'health', and the power of vulnerability to surrender to the care and treatment she had feared the most, she embraced the power of the truth. Grit and Grace is the perfect description of Tara's truth and what it means to heal, body and soul.

Schelli Whitehouse, author of, "The Business of Coaching with Horses ~ How to Reach More Clients, Feed Your Horses, and Change the World!"

For anyone who craves the inspiration of a true living miracle, meet Tara. Her wisdom, light, and relentless courage in the face of life’s most challenging circumstances shows us all an undeniable truth: anything is possible with an open mind and heart. I’ve had the privilege of knowing Tara personally throughout her miraculous cancer journey and what has impressed me the most is her ability to question her belief systems around western medicine and re-frame cancer and treatment into a healing nectar that’s here to help her grow, evolve, and live life to the fullest. Her book, Grace, Grit, and Gratitude found me at the perfect moment – right when I learned my breast cancer had metastasized to Stage IV. Because of Tara and her powerful story, I now have the confidence to fearlessly join the sweet sisterhood of MBC Thrivers. I am forever grateful!

Bethany Webb, Mindset Coach & Author of My Guru Cancer