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. ...

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 –...

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...

Dancing with a horse is the final activity of the Eponaquest Instructor apprenticeship. My dancing was a complete failure, as I...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Eponaquest approach to equine facilitated learning has been described as the work of ‘personal development’ and ‘leadership...

I have now completed a training program in the psychotherapeutic modality Internal Family Systems (IFS), which is said to be the emerging...

Have you ever wondered how your childhood experiences formed the person you are today? Oprah and Dr. Bruce Perry explore this question...

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...

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...

Almost every day there is an email in my business Inbox talking about the ‘Covid mental health crisis’. Emails from our benefits...

I recently became certified as a Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath® Certified Practitioner. What is that and what’s it got to do with Equine...

I recently attended a webinar put on by some Central Alberta governmental organizations on ‘Thriving in the New Normal – Leadership and...

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...

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...

Meet Holly, the latest addition to my herd. Holly, a 21 year old Welsh Pony mare, is a been-there-done-that horse, and has taught many...

Working Through Trauma – Equine Style The aspect of Equine Facilitated Learning that has fascinated me the most is its use in trauma...