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Big decisions are coming up!
Believe it or not, spring is coming soon and if you have 2-year-olds, you might have to start deciding what route to take with them. How do you decide whether you should go cutting, cow horse or reining with them? It's really important that the horse has the aptitude...
Getting Your Horse Soft
In my last article on May 13, I talked about what softness was and wasn’t, thebenefits of your horse being soft, and how I go about it. If this topic interests you,you might want to go back and read it before you read this one. In this article, I’llgive you a few...
Am I Good Enough?
A woman I know often feels like she comes up short in her horse program. She loves her horses, but thinks her horses are just ok, and that her riding isn’t good enough (and likely never will be), and that she doesn’t have enough time, money, or friends in the horse...
Softening Your Horse
I was ruminating the other day about what it is about a really broke horse that makes everything about them look so good, so comfortable and so effortless. We all know what it’s not. It’s the absence of stiffness, nervousness and fear. Ok, but what is it?...
“An Exercise to Develop Feel”
There’s that word again … “feel.” It can be so elusive. What does that mean? And most importantly, how can you develop it? To me “riding with feel” means being so connected to your horse that you can sense how to communicate seamlessly with him moment to moment (like...
Feast on it or Forget About it!
I was recently playing pickleball with a friend who is far better than I am at the game and whenI’d hit a really good shot she’d holler, “feast on that one Sandy!” What she meant was not topat myself on the back, but rather to savor the feel of the shot, replay the...
Come Back to Center with Four Questions
I want to share something that happened recently. Have you had the experience of learning an idea and using it successfully to help you stay focused or get back on the right track, but it just fades away over time? Then, all of a sudden, it pops up again, and you...
Finding the Right Trainer
In my last article I talked about letting your horse help you decide which event he’s most suited for, and now I want to share the factors I believe are most important when selecting a trainer (if you don’t plan to do the training yourself). 1. Shared ValuesThe most...
Managing Self-Consciousness in Lessons
In this audio I discuss a friend’s experience of feeling self-conscious and distracted during a private riding lesson with a trainer she admired. Her feeling is natural due to our innate desire to connect and be approved by others. I then suggest a simple tool for...
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