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Coming in July 2026: Mending Broken Bits LLC offers trauma-informed, equine-assisted support for those healing from life’s hardest battles.
“Mending what the world tried to break.”

🪶 Today was all about choice.We hung colorful scarves along the fence and simply spent time with the horses. No expectat...
05/31/2026

🪶 Today was all about choice.

We hung colorful scarves along the fence and simply spent time with the horses. No expectations. No pressure. No agenda.

The horses were free to investigate, ignore them, play with them, or even wear them if they chose. One by one, curiosity took over, and several selected their own colors.

Sometimes healing looks a lot like this.

Being given the space to explore something new without being forced.
Being allowed to say yes, no, or not yet.
Learning that trust grows when choice is honored.

The horses reminded us today that connection doesn’t come from control—it comes from freedom, curiosity, and feeling safe enough to choose.

💜 Mending What the World Tried to Break

05/31/2026

YOUR LIGHT MAY NOT REACH EVERYONE, BUT IT WILL REACH THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING IT. ✨

Not everyone will understand your journey.
Not everyone will connect with your message.
Not everyone will see what you have to offer.

And that’s okay.

You were never meant to be for everyone.

Keep showing up.
Keep sharing your heart.
Keep being yourself.

The people who need your light, your kindness, your wisdom, and your encouragement will find it exactly when they need it most. 🤍🐴

Keep shining.

🪶 Mending Broken Bits Session Availability Update 🐴We currently have pilot session openings available the first week of ...
05/31/2026

🪶 Mending Broken Bits Session Availability Update 🐴

We currently have pilot session openings available the first week of June on:

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday

If you’ve been thinking about scheduling a session, now is a great time to reserve your spot!

Please note that Mending Broken Bits will not have pilot sessions Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday during the second week of June as I will be taking my daughter to visit the Ark Encounter in Kentucky.

Thank you all for your continued support, and I look forward to connecting with you. 🫶🏻

Mending Broken Bits
“Mending what the world tried to break.”

As we mentioned, there will be a duck house along the Mending Broken Bits trail on opening day—and that project official...
05/30/2026

As we mentioned, there will be a duck house along the Mending Broken Bits trail on opening day—and that project officially started today! 🦆💜

We would like to give a special thank you to Cazi Hudson for helping us grow our flock and for donating baby ducks to join our two older ducks.

Little by little, the vision for Mending Broken Bits is becoming reality. We can’t wait to share the finished duck house and all the new additions with everyone on opening day.

🪶 Mending What the World Tried to Break.

05/29/2026

🪶 Good Morning from Mending Broken Bits 🐴

Even the geese seemed to know this was a place to pause today. A flock flew by overhead, then made a quick U-turn and settled in for a peaceful morning rest.

Sometimes healing looks a lot like that—slowing down, changing direction, and giving yourself permission to rest before continuing the journey.

Wishing everyone a calm and gentle morning from the farm. 💜

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28

🪶✨

Pilot Sessions kickoff today for Mending Broken Bits. 💜These sessions are the beginning stages of something we’ve poured...
05/28/2026

Pilot Sessions kickoff today for Mending Broken Bits. 💜

These sessions are the beginning stages of something we’ve poured our hearts into for a long time. The barn is still growing, the property is still evolving, and so are we.

Thank you to everyone supporting, encouraging, sharing, and believing in this vision from the ground up.

Brick by brick. Bit by bit. 🪶

🐴 A Note About Mending Broken Bits 🐴As interest in Mending Broken Bits continues to grow, I wanted to take a moment to e...
05/26/2026

🐴 A Note About Mending Broken Bits 🐴

As interest in Mending Broken Bits continues to grow, I wanted to take a moment to explain what we are currently offering and where we are headed in the near future.

For more than 16 years, I have worked alongside psychiatrists, licensed clinicians, and other helping professionals supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families. I currently work alongside a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor as we continue developing the clinical side of Mending Broken Bits.

The current Pilot Session Program focuses on equine-assisted personal growth and wellness experiences. Through guided activities with horses, participants have opportunities to build confidence, strengthen communication, improve emotional awareness, develop problem-solving skills, and explore personal growth in a supportive environment.

Many families have asked about counseling and psychotherapy services. While the Pilot Session Program is not psychotherapy, Mending Broken Bits is actively working toward expanding services in the near future. Our vision includes offering professional counseling services alongside equine-assisted experiences to better serve the needs of our community.

My goal is to create a welcoming place where individuals, children, families, and groups can slow down, connect, learn, heal, and grow through meaningful experiences with horses.

Thank you for following our journey, supporting our growth, and helping shape the future of Mending Broken Bits. We look forward to meeting you soon.

— Chelsey Sterchi, M.Ed.
Founder, Mending Broken Bits LLC

12/02/2025

There once was a little mare.
Not a champion racehorse.
Not a pedigreed star.
Just a 13 hand Jeju pony from Korea.
Barely taller than a middle schooler.

Her Korean name was probably Ah Chim Hai.
Flame of the Morning.
Born around 1948.
Unraced.
Unremarkable.
Unknown.

Until a teenage stable boy sold her for 250 dollars.
Money raised by Marines who skipped meals and pooled poker winnings.

Why did he sell her?
So he could buy prosthetic legs for his sister.
A landmine had taken both of hers.

That is how an ordinary little mare fell into the hands of the United States Marine Corps.

And now…
the story really begins.
🐴🔥

She was bought to haul 75 millimeter recoilless rifle shells.
Up to 200 pounds at a time.
Up mountains where trucks could not go.
Into mud and ice and artillery.

The Marines called her Reckless.
But the name did not warn them.
It prepared them.

Because she learned faster than any horse they had ever seen.
Flattening herself in ditches when she heard incoming rounds.
Bolting for bunkers.
Halting mid trail when artillery whistled overhead.

She even learned to make the trips alone.
Two to three miles without a handler.
Carrying ammo up.
Bringing wounded Marines back down.
Instinct guiding her through fire and fear.

One day she stepped over a mine tripwire that should have killed her.
The Marines said it was luck.
Others said it was something else.

And now… the battle that made her legend.
🇺🇸🔥

Outpost Vegas.
March 1953.
A hill soaked in blood.
A battle so brutal that veterans still refused to talk about it.

Reckless made 51 trips up and down that hill in a single day.
Over 35 miles of open fire.
Machine guns.
Mortars.
A world screaming around her.

She carried 386 rounds.
Almost all the ammo the platoon fired.

Shrapnel tore her flank.
Another hit her hind leg.
She bled.
She staggered.
But she never stopped.

The Marines said she saved them from being overrun.
They said no human could have done what she did.

She earned two Purple Hearts.
A Presidential Unit Citation.
And eventually… a battlefield promotion.
Then another.
Sergeant Reckless.
The only animal promoted twice to staff sergeant.

Life Magazine called her America’s greatest war horse.

But Marines said something even better.
“She was one of us.”

Now… you might think you know the rest.
But Paul Harvey would smile here.
Because there is more.
🐴😄

Reckless loved beer.
Cold Falstaff or Coors.
Straight from the can.
She crashed officers’ parties.
Stole poker chips.
Chewed ci******es.
And once trotted away with an entire cherry pie board and all.

She curled up in foxholes.
Nuzzled wounded soldiers.
Became therapy on four hooves in a war almost everyone forgot.

After the war she returned home a hero.
She received parades.
She drank at the Bohemian Club.
She retired at Camp Pendleton.
She had foals.
Veterans visited her for years.
Some cried into her mane.

She passed in 1968.
Buried with honor.
Still loved.
Still remembered.

Later researchers like Janet Barrett spent twenty years collecting the real stories.
Sixty Marines.
Declassified files.
Old photos that had never been seen.
Interviews from Korea.
And a truth even more powerful than the legend.

Reckless was not born heroic.
She chose it.
Every day she carried weight that should have broken her.
Yet she lifted spirits instead.

Now you know the rest of the story.
And maybe now you understand why a little mare from Korea has six national monuments.
Why Marines still say her name with pride.
Why her story refuses to fade.

If you want the whole truth in all its grit and grace, read Janet Barrett’s book They Called Her Reckless or Robin Hutton’s Sgt. Reckless.

And if this story touched you, save it, follow for more, and share it so the world remembers the horse who outran bullets and never left a Marine behind.

Tag someone who needs a spark of hope today.
🐴❤️🇺🇸

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2462 Il Highway 1
Noble, IL
62427

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Tuesday 3pm - 5pm
Thursday 3pm - 5pm
Saturday 3pm - 5pm

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