Meet the Founder
My name is Candace Moore. I am the mom of 4 therapeutic children. I have a small place and a love for people and horses!
When I was 11 years old, my brother died at the age of 6. This was a tragic and traumatic event, and I was a lost child sent to a father and family in Arkansas I barley knew. This is where I first felt the transforming power of the love of a horse. My family saved my life, we went to play days, horses shows, and rodeos. My horse was La Flash, she had been left to die in the swamps in Louisiana and was nearly dead when my dad chose her for me.
Perhaps this childhood experience lit the flame of my passion ever so long ago. After graduation from Mena Arkansas High School, I took the rocky path ending in addition and eventual attempts in suicide. After years of addiction and alcoholism, God decided I was done with that life, and it was time to recover.
My clean and sober date is November 4, 2004, and for this I am forever grateful.
In 2014 I graduated with a Master of Science, Education: Counseling. My area of study was Rehabilitation Counseling whereby I focused on assisting folks with disabilities. During these days of study, I was fortunate to volunteer with a Rehabilitation Counselor who worked at a therapeutic riding center. This counselor worked with veterans and horses. I again witnessed firsthand the healing power horse can bring to so many. I also worked with many special needs kids, transforming them both physically and psychologically. A dream was born!
As I looked for work, I thought I needed to do some profound type of work with all this education. I had been doing therapeutic foster care for 4 years since 2010. I was reminded by a very wise friend how important one child at a time is and how my education would benefit them. I changed the way I viewed the importance of my education. It has been my honor to have served 100’s of Therapeutic children for the last 15 years.
Today I have been blessed to be home for 8 years in Mena Arkansas! The need to rescue horses is a real and present situation. These beautiful souls are being transported in horrific conditions to Mexico, Canada and Japan. Many of these horses are home-abled horses who end up through happenstance to find themselves in the slaughter pipeline. Me and my current therapeutic kids have been saving one horse at a time. Again, watching the horses getting saved while watching the children find hope and connection is why the business is called Hearts Saving Hearts a symbiotic relationship like no other! Eventually I’m excited to share the lifesaving stories, for now I am watching God unfold a story that has been in the works for a very long time.
Please follow our journey and stand witness to the healing power of Hearts Saving Hearts!
Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns here.
Sincerely, Candace Moore, MS
