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Spring is in the Air! What’s Coming Up at Reclaim Connection?
After a winter with lots of cold spells but (thankfully) no major blizzards, it feels like Spring is finally on its way. How do I know? ...
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Mar 21, 20233 min read


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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Mar 1, 20233 min read


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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Feb 14, 20232 min read


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 27, 20232 min read


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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Jan 3, 20235 min read


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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Dec 12, 20223 min read


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 23, 20225 min read


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 14, 20222 min read


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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Nov 6, 20224 min read


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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Oct 27, 20226 min read


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 24, 20224 min read


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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Sep 3, 20226 min read


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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Aug 29, 20221 min read


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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Jul 2, 20224 min read


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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May 29, 20224 min read


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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Apr 11, 20221 min read


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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Feb 12, 20225 min read


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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May 4, 20214 min read


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 18, 20213 min read


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 12, 20214 min read
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