Problem Solving and Hay In Our Bras.
It blurted out the end of my fingers before I knew it. "Eventually I learned how to keep hay out...
Affirmative Anxiety
For as often as we've watched horses run and thought them the most beautiful of all creatures, we should know...
Calming Signals: Love vs Understanding
The mare would not pick up the canter. She just wouldn’t. In her defense, the rider was off balance. Every...
Growing Up: Self-Consciousness vs Self-Awareness
My teen years were pretty normal, meaning total angst and torture. There was that summer that I used my babysitting...
Interior Design: Do It for Your Horse
Imagine your brain is a room. Stand in the middle and slowly turn to take it in. Would it be...
Resolutions and Horse Dreams
It's the twilight zone between holidays, meandering like a long, slow-motion hangover. I have no idea what day it is...
Horse Training Means Affirmative Waiting
Humans, aren't we swell? Compared to horses, we have dim, frail senses, we're seven times slower in our response time,...
Balancing Energy with a Horse
Is your horse lazy? Lazy is a name we call horses when we want to denigrate them by comparing them...
Nube: How to Train a Horse to be Patient
I don't like cameras. How you can tell is my neck swells up and my double chins flare out wider...
Do You Have Coyote Eyes? How to Look Without Looking
Can you tell when someone's looking at you? Or maybe a child in a waiting room, or it could be...
Peaceful Persistence, a Horse Training Manifesto
What does "not conceding" mean? Oh, I can't wait to bray about this, says this trainer whose spirit animal...
Human Calming Signals: I Want my Horse to be Fearless.
So, you want a horse that doesn't spook? Don't we all? Great, you wanna look for something over 25...
Training Tip: Improving Your Eye
Sometimes we look back at how we kept horses as kids, and it seemed so simple then. None of them...
Affirmative Training is Fine, But What-if…
A few years back, a pretty well-known trainer made a statement about using force with horses. Flat out, the...
Calming Signals: What Are You Really Afraid Of?
What are you afraid of? Maybe this question. Take a breath and check your shoulders. Are they down where they...
Letting Go of Shame and Blame. Do It for Your Horse.
Nope. Not me. I was allergic to this color, but Hannah dressed for success from the...
Problem Solved: Space to Breathe.
I'm walking next to you and I'm talking loudly. I am so close that you feel the heat of my...
How to Stop Taking Your Horse Personally
Bhim is a one-of-a-kind, I surely hope. People might say he's still with me ten years after he came for...
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