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...
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- Feb 14
- 2 min
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...
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- Jan 27
- 2 min
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 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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- 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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