Selena Gomezis enjoying horsing around with her very best friends in the weeks following her release from treatment.
On Wednesday evening, the singer, 26, saddled up and hit the hills for a sunset horseback riding session along with her pals Raquelle Stevens and Anna Collins. Exuding major western vibes, Gomez paired a sherpa patched tapestry-like coat with a pair of jeans, sneakers and her signature gold hoop earrings.
“Sunset ride ❤️,” Stevenscaptioned the sweet photoof the trio sitting on their horses with a beautiful backdrop, while Collinsposted a variation of the shotwith three unicorn emojis as the caption.
Anna Collins/Instagram
In theSeptember 2017 issue ofInStyle, Gomez opened up aboutequine therapy,which she soughtaftercanceling the remainderof herRevivaltourthe previous year to focus onher emotional health and exhaustion.
“I went away for 90 days, and it was the best thing that I ever could’ve done,” she toldInStyle‘s Laura Brown inher candid cover interview. “I had no phone, nothing, and I was scared. But it was amazing, and I learned a lot.”
“I was in the countryside and never did my hair… And it was hard, obviously,” Gomez continued. “But I knew what my heart was saying, and I thought, ‘OK, I think this has helped me become stronger for other people.'”
Duringher second visitlast October, Gomez suffereda panic attackafter two hospitalizations, both times for a low white blood cell count, which can be a side effect forkidney transplant patients. (Gomezunderwent a kidney transplantlast year because of herongoing battle with lupus.) She subsequently headed to a treatment center on the East Coast to focus on her mental health. “She has had a tough few weeks and the panic attack in the hospital was the tipping point,” the source previously told PEOPLE.
Gomez chose to undergo dialectical behavior therapy, a therapy method designed to help try to identify, and then change, negative thinking and behavioral patterns.
The singer has been open about her battle with lupus for several years, and firstrevealed in 2015that she’d undergone chemotherapy to treat the disease. Lupus causes the immune system to attack its own organs and tissues and can affect the whole body.
In December, her friends Connar Franklin and actress Bailee Madison posted a series of photos from a snowy vacation in Big Bear, California, featuring Gomez looking happy and healthy following her release from treatment.
Selena Gomez, Bailee Madison and friends.Connar Franklin/Instagram
“Selena’s feeling much better and looking forward to getting back to normalcy,” a source told PEOPLE at the time. “She’s spending time with friends and family.”
“Selena looks amazing. Since finishing her treatment, she is surrounding herself with friends,” an insider previously told PEOPLE. “She seems very happy.”
source: people.com
