We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Hertha Lund a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hertha, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.

My defining moment was when I died and left my body and was allowed to return to my body after ascending in golden tube of light. During childhood I suffered from two sources of trauma — 1. my mom and her unresolved trauma that she placed on to me physically and emotionally; and, 2. sexual abuse by the neighbor teenager when I was five. I developed complex PTSD and one of my best strategies to not allow myself to slow down and feel was that I became an overachiever. I was a state champion in two different sports the same year: basketball and rodeo. First studying to be a doctor while playing two college sports in the same year, then becoming a journalist who covered Congress and United States Supreme Court, and then going to law school and becoming a litigation attorney all served my quest to never slow down to feel. In 2015, after being sick with severe inflammation around my heart and lungs for the last year and being hospitalized, I died. Since dying, I have kept my promise about doing whatever I could to heal and I feel better at all levels of being than I ever thought was possible. Currently, I manage my own law firm Lund Law and my coaching, speaking, and teaching service through Four Horses for Wholeness. I employ 6-10 employees and contract workers between my two businesses.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I still practice law in Montana; however, I really want to share my new endeavor Equine Gestalt Coaching. I experienced this coaching and then trained to be a coach while I was keeping my promise to God to pursue transformational healing. Gestalt is a German word loosely meaning “Wholeness.” As a coach, I see those who come to work with me and my healing horses as whole. As a result of my life experience, I am able to hold space, stay in contact and offer a safe place free of judgment or any wrinkle of criticism while people experience and let go of those ways of being that no longer serve them. The Four Horses for Wholeness Retreat Center is nestled in a high mountain meadow surrounded by and enveloped in the supreme beauty of Mother Earth. Also, I partner with incredible horses that provide their own hearts and wisdom to assist people in their healing journey. I love offering retreats and sharing the bounty that I have been provided.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

My life story is written in my first book Alchemy of Resilience: My Rugged Path to Wholeness. Resilience is my hole card in life. I have embody resilience to escape and survive the negative side of my mom. Also, it took resilience to tell her I loved her, while she had a gun in her lap and I was talking her out of committing suicide. I told her, “I love you and that is the not the real you talking..” My love helped her find herself again and she lived until she was 88. Also, it took resilience for me to move to the East Coast from Montana to study Journalism at Temple University after we had lost our family ranch. I worked three jobs while attending college fulltime to be able to pay for my education and expenses. Most of all, it took resilience for me to keep my promise to God to slow down and feel those feelings I had been running from and then write down my experience to share with others who may also need inspiration and courage to follow their paths to wholeness. Also, I am a professional speaker who now shares my story of resilience from big stages to inspire and support others find their path home to wholeness.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

The lesson I had to unlearn from my backstory is my reaction to childhood trauma was to never trust anybody because they would hurt me. I have now learned that to scale up myself and my businesses to have the reach that I desire, I needed to trust and allow others to help me. The world I exist in right now, while nothing besides me has really changed, is now filled with the support and abundance that I never even used to hope existed. I now know that when I am congruent with love on the inside, my outer world brings me all that resonates with my inner reality.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.herthalund.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fourhorsesforwholeness/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FourHorsesForWholeness
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hertha-lund

Image Credits

Please give photo credit to Phyliss Burchett