For many years, Sunup has struggled to find his place and his voice. This registered Quarter Horse has been asked to wear many different hats, including those of a cutting horse, a lesson horse, and a therapeutic riding horse, and none of those hats seemed to fit just right. Sunup is an expressive horse, clearly voicing his opinions about matters ranging from turnout, to stall cleaning, to feed and watering and blanketing. He is often labeled and judged negatively, because his views and his ways of expressing them can be loud and insistent and hard for people to understand and respond to. The very things for which Sunup has been judged in the past – his expressiveness, his reactions to novel situations and changes in his environment, and his insistence on consistency and self-awareness – are the traits that are most valuable to his work at Bridle Paths. Sunup excels in his work with teens and young adults with anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, and with veterans and military families. His superpower is his relatability, his ability to be exactly who he is, and to be valued and understood for those qualities.