Horses Interrupted His Cycle of Addiction with Ray Guidone | Episode 76

The Touch of a Mustang · May 28, 2026 · 54m · transcript

Ray Guidone had used alcohol to escape the hardest parts of life. Then he returned to horses—and the craving disappeared.

For days after working with them, Ray did not think about alcohol at all. He was not fighting the urge or forcing himself through it. In the presence of horses, he felt free from it.

Ray and I explore what happened during those days. We talk about the role escape played in his addiction, why horses pulled him into the present, and how their honesty made it harder to avoid what he was carrying. Ray also shares how he learned to recognize the difference between something…