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Fear, Shame, and Affirmative Training

  This is a photo of when you first fell in love with horses. Maybe you dreamed it and it...
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Confidence Lost and Found

  We thought having a horse would make everything perfect. It's a dream most of us were born with; we...
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Affirmative Training and Spoiling Horses

Most of us hear voices. We might be working with our horses on an issue and floundering in the moment,...
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Be-Here-Now: Focus on Safety (Helmets and Response Time)

  You're standing in a tennis court just behind the baseline, being mildly uncomfortable in your tennis togs because the...
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Calming Signals and Holding a Grudge

Sometimes your horse isn't forward and it's frustrating. Or he doesn't like the trailer, and now neither do you. Maybe...
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Photo & Poem: Thanksgiving

We’d be grateful for a kind winter. If that works out, maybe a sweet season of green grass, probably not...
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Calming Signals and Loving Your Horse

On any ordinary day of any year, we get so filled with emotion talking about a ghost horse that our...
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Always Begging for Hay

Horses eat like a horse. They're designed to graze most of the day. I think horses worry about their next...
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Hindsight Argument for Affirmative Training

He was a huge gelding with obvious draft blood. I could see white all the way around his eye. It...
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Photo & Poem: Scream

  Her small exhausted body wobbles, too frail to run on uneven hooves, no energy to eat. Don’t call her...
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