The Transformation of Diva - Final (?) Update
After a year and a half of trauma-informed horsemanship with Diva, I finally feel that we are at a place where most of the stored trauma...
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- Jan 3
- 5 min
Why are Emotions Important?
We live in a culture that values rationality and intellect over emotionality. Many of us grew up in families where expressing certain...
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- Dec 12, 2022
- 3 min
The Transformation of Diva - Update 4 Recognizing the Freeze Response
One of the tricky bits of being with a client is recognizing when the client is calm, or if they are actually in the freeze response. ...
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- Nov 23, 2022
- 5 min
They Come Out the Way They Went In
One of the principles of trauma recovery that Peter Levine formulated was that ‘they come out the way they went in.’ What he means is –...
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- Nov 14, 2022
- 2 min
To Be Curious, You Must Feel Safe . . . Whether a Horse or a Human
Much of what I learn about neuroscience and trauma recovery I get to see for real with my horses. After all, horses and humans have...
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- Nov 6, 2022
- 4 min
Dance Like No One is Watching
Dancing with a horse is the final activity of the Eponaquest Instructor apprenticeship. My dancing was a complete failure, as I...
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- Oct 27, 2022
- 6 min
The Transformation of Diva – Update 2 – Covering All the Bases
Three Weeks Ago: As Diva and I progress in the under-saddle work, I have noticed that she is actually getting more reactive, not less. I...
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- Sep 24, 2022
- 4 min
The Transformation of Diva Update - The Beginnings of Connection
My first dressage coach used to say that, in order to train a horse, you needed to teach them the word first, then a sentence and finally...
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- Sep 3, 2022
- 6 min
How Do I Become More Assertive? or Is this the Right Question?
As you make your way up the corporate ladder, you may be told that you need to become ‘more assertive’ as a leader. Or, perhaps you need...
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- Aug 29, 2022
- 1 min
The Transformation of Diva
Have you ever bought something and it turned out not to be what you expected? That happened to me last summer when I bought a horse for...
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- Jul 2, 2022
- 4 min
Is It Really Personal?
The Eponaquest approach to equine facilitated learning has been described as the work of ‘personal development’ and ‘leadership...
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- May 29, 2022
- 4 min
What??!! – I Have a Family Inside of Me??
I have now completed a training program in the psychotherapeutic modality Internal Family Systems (IFS), which is said to be the emerging...
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- Apr 11, 2022
- 1 min
What Happened to You? An Equine Facilitated Book Club Experience
Have you ever wondered how your childhood experiences formed the person you are today? Oprah and Dr. Bruce Perry explore this question...
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- Feb 12, 2022
- 5 min
What I Have Learned thu Covid
At the beginning of Covid, in April 2020, I wrote a blog entry entitled Who Do I Want to Be During Covid 19? I used an illustration of...
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- May 4, 2021
- 4 min
Recipe for Disaster
Does this sound like a recipe for disaster? Take one really tall horse, add a head trauma somewhere in the past, plus a history of horse...
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- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
Finding Resilience
Almost every day there is an email in my business Inbox talking about the ‘Covid mental health crisis’. Emails from our benefits...
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- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
What is HeartMath® and What’s it Got to Do with Horses?
I recently became certified as a Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath® Certified Practitioner. What is that and what’s it got to do with Equine...
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- Mar 5, 2021
- 3 min
Leadership and Networking
I recently attended a webinar put on by some Central Alberta governmental organizations on ‘Thriving in the New Normal – Leadership and...
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- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
Survivor
We have a green ash tree on our acreage that is a survivor. It has an obvious lean in the direction of the prevailing winds. It is so...
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- Oct 25, 2020
- 1 min
How to Explain Equine Facilitated Learning?
It is sometimes difficult to explain what EFL is all about when people ask. How to put into words the sense of going inside your body...
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