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It's incredibly common to feel safe inside the arena, and anxious once you ride outside of it. For lots of horsewomen overcoming a traumatic horse incident the arena can feel like a safety blanked. Many women have shared with me that in the arena, they feel safe and once they ride outside of it, it's like a fog of anxiety descends upon them. Maybe you can relate? Maybe inside the arena you feel like yourself. You can ride. You can think clearly. You can actually enjoy your ho

Alright, not really. But I DO want to have a thoughtful discussion about the horse industry’s obsession with immediately “getting back on.” and speak on how it is often literally making horse trauma more severe. So let’s talk about it. Your nervous system loves two things: Predictability and a sense of control. Which means that it wants to be able to anticipate what’s coming and know that you have choices about what happens to you. In other words, it wants agency. Now imagi

I want to tell you a story about my horsemanship entrepreneurship journey. And how it taught me powerful lessons about horses, healing, and trauma... Back in 2020, I was trying to figure out what kind of online business I wanted to create. I had recently graduated with a diploma in marketing and communications, and I knew I wanted to use what I had learned to work with clients and eventually build something of my own. I also knew I did not want to go get a traditional 9-to-5