Do you feel afraid when you are riding or working around your horse? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to just jump on our horse and go on a trail ride? Do you often worry about falling and getting hurt? Do you get nervous even thinking about riding your...

Have you ever been "triggered" while riding your horse? A  friend of mine relayed to me some details about a recent clinic she attended with world renowned equine performance coach Barbra Schulte. Barbra is also a cutting horse trainer and the focus of the clinic was...

I got really angry at my horse today. Has that ever happened to you? Do you ever lose your temper with your horse?   I’ve been working with my horse Lulu to become a better riding horse. Lulu is a trained cutting horse and spent most of her life mirroring cattle...

I love the idea of the New Year. Getting a clean slate, setting new goals, starting over. But for some of us, the New Year represents disappointment. Disappointment with goals unfulfilled, dreams never started, everything we hoped to accomplish during the year and...

I've written a lot about about being aware of our thoughts and also about being aware of our horse's body language. Let's  talk about being aware of our body and specifically being aware of our “seat” in order to achieve the elusive “deep seat”.   Being balanced...

When it comes to improving the connection with your horse there is one skill that will take your horsemanship to the next level, and that is learning how to be present in the moment with your horse.    We all have good intentions when we work with our horses, but...

Are you finding it difficult to get motivated to improve your riding? Motivation, simply defined, is the ability to initiate and persist at a task. The reason motivation is so important in our riding is that it is really the only thing which we can control. That’s...

When I decided to learn the sport of cutting a few years ago, I knew that I needed to find a horse that knew more about the sport than I did. I wasn’t a beginning rider. I’d been riding for some 40 years at that point and even competed in a few cattle classes, but...

Have you ever gotten to the end of your week, and said something like “What did I do this week?” or “I had 6 things on my list that I wanted to do and didn’t get to one of them.” When it comes to managing our time, being intentional about how we spend it is key. It...

Do you ever think about your things you want to accomplish with your horse or your riding and then suddenly realize that you’re not sure how to make them happen? Does thinking about accomplishing those things make you feel nervous or scared? Do you put them off or...