by Susan | Apr 11, 2019 | Awareness, EGC, Grief, Horses
Last week I was talking to a woman who lost her husband almost a year-and-a-half ago. He and his brothers went on a yearly golf outing and this year when the brothers went, they found a golf ball with a logo from where he worked in the rough. They said it was him...
by Susan | Apr 3, 2019 | Communications, EGC, Horses, Relationships
Fluently! I also speak Socolofsky. The combination of the two is my native tongue. What’s yours? Several weeks ago, a friend was leading a bible study and she said “I speak Swart”. And then went on to explain that her language is based on how the people...
by Susan | Mar 20, 2019 | Awareness, EGC, Gestalt, Horses
On Monday I shared the cartoon at the right on FaceBook. It recalled much of my teaching in the Equine Gestalt Coaching Method® program. Melisa often said that horses are always in the present moment, always mindful and they help us be. Mindfulness means maintaining a...
by Susan | Mar 13, 2019 | Awareness, Caregiving, EGC
Even after watching for two hours as they stabilized Mike before taking us to the airport, I was sure everything would be fine. That’s how optimistic I am. I was talking to my BWEL Study coach last week and she asked me if I was optimistic. Well, funny you should ask...
by Susan | Mar 7, 2019 | Awareness, EGC, Horses
– the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. I suppose I’ve always been resilient. I don’t remember many difficulties that I had to recover from as a child. One of the first memories I have of trauma is seeing my dog hit by a pickup when I was...
by Susan | Feb 21, 2019 | Awareness, EGC
It’s amazing how I can find something “important” at least in that moment to do when I am resisting doing something that needs to be done. As this blog post is a day late, I must have had some of those things come up to keep me from writing. I’m not very good at...