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Maybe Your Body Doesn’t Want What Your Exercise Plan Wants

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What If What You Were Moved By Also Loved You Back?

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What Is The Invitation? On Letting Go Of Patterns

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Joy Is Not Made To Be A Crumb: On Devotion

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“I’m In A Funk Today, Wondering What It Is I Want”

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On Observing Reflexive Reactions (And Not Descending Into Righteousness)

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On What It Means To Cry

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No-One Is Coming To Save You (Which Is a Very Good Thing)

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Take Yourself On A String Safari

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When Handing Over The Lead Rope Is The Closest Thing We Have To Handing Over Our Heart

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How Do Your Hold Your Own Hand & Guide Your Body Out Of Collapse?

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A Contemplation On Navigating Murky Spaces

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On What It Means To Cry

I’ve been thinking an unreasonable amount this week about crying. About what it means to cry. What it reveals, what it allows. One of my

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On beginnings

It’s a tender, imperfect thing to write about beginnings when so many are facing new beginnings in ways that seem unfathomable. Where homes have been

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To Be Available For Connection

The moment that we connect with anything- horse, human, other-outside-of-ourselves- is brief. In this way, the experience of connection is not an island that we

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For The Caregivers

This week, I have done little more with my horses than sit briefly with them while they have eaten their hay, and tended to them

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Thoughts About Appeasement

We had an interesting question this week (well, they’re all interesting questions frankly!) in Stable Hours, our live Q&A in JoyRide. It was motivated by

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Time As Perception

I’m currently obsessed with considering, thinking about, musing on the subject of time. We’ve been having some bouncy discussions in the JoyRide group on the

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On Allowing For The Messiness

Let me paint a picture for you because this little missive is about pictures and so it seems like the most obvious and appropriate place

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Boredom Is A Great Healer

Boredom is a great healer. It can indicate you are standing on the edge of a precipice. That new territory that once felt far away

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Who Is The Horse?

I was interviewed the other day and one of the questions I was asked was, who is the horse? The answer that spilled out of

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On ‘Acting In Service Of’

On “Acting in service of”… It’s been a good few weeks since I’ve done anything of note with my lovely horses. I’ve had a flu

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Things I’m Thinking About #3

Things I’m thinking about: 1. Riding Merc yesterday, I was thinking about how the more stoic horses, or those we might consider to the heavier

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Things I’m Thinking About #2

Things I’m thinking about 1. I was poo picking in the paddock yesterday and thinking about our relationship to time. How we can so easily

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Things I’m Thinking About #1

Things I’m thinking about: 1. At the moment, the entirety of our herd is grazing the front paddock. This feels like a delicious and wholly

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What’s Your Relationship To Tension?

What’s your relationship to tension? I know when I started my adventures understanding more about the body, the main preoccupation was in developing softness, pliability,

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You Aren’t Entitled To Success

You are not entitled to success.You are not entitled to things working out.A horse, even one you label as your own, neither requires nor demands

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Can You Learn To Read A Body?

Can you learn to read a body?Every body expresses a story. The story of everything that came before.I’ve had many conversations with trainers and riders,

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A Normal Amount Of Discomfort

This week, I’ve been reading lots of articles about women in the wild. Adventurers, hikers, campers, who set out to the mountains and forests in

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Birds Coast When They Can

There’s a beautiful phrase I hold gently in my hands, that I’ve adopted as one of my mottos for living. “Birds coast when they can”

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On Loneliness

Before I started writing this, I was staring at my screen for a good few minutes, wondering how to begin. The thing is, I have

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Coming To Your Senses

There’s a negative cycle we get stuck in when we find ourselves living more often than not in our fight flight or sympathetic nervous system.

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