It’s almost impossible to spend time with a horse without learning something about yourself.  When I began working with horses I  immediately discovered how much I needed have to have control. I also discovered however impossible that was. So what is a control freak to do?   Fortunately the great equine trainers I worked with taught [...]

The other morning my husband, Brett, finally succumbed to the flu bug that had been dogging him all week.  Halfway through feeding the horses he came up to the house and went back to bed.  So an hour later I took a break from paperwork and went down to do barn chores and feed the [...]

As someone who has learned to work more or less successfully with horses, I have learned to look at behaviour from a different perspective. Mark Rashid a well known horseman and writer suggests in his book, Whole Horse Whole Heart (my favourite leadership book) that we should consider looking  at behaviour simply as information that is [...]

When people come to my arena to work with my horses invariably the first question they ask is,  “How do I get my horse to go? I explain to them that they cant really “get” their horse to go.  But if they want to engage their horse to move forward with them, then they need [...]