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What Can Horses Teach Us About Leadership?

One of the great joys of being able to keep my horses at home is being able to watch them from my kitchen window. I am slowly learning...

Feeling Safe

Feeling safe sounds like such a simple thing. But for those of us who grew up in chaotic environments, perhaps with parents or caregivers...

What is Congruence and What Does it Have to Do with Horses?

I have seen it over and over again – someone goes into the roundpen with a horse and the horse totally ignores them. The person tries...

Sole Abscess - A Metaphor for Life?

I was surprised by the number of views to my original Instagram Reel of soaking Holly’s sore foot. For some reason that resonated with...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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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