by Susan | Nov 13, 2024 | Horses, Lessons From the Horses
How Horses Help Us Embrace Our True Selves Do you always feel like you’re being authentic? I mean true to yourself, never wavering. I hear a lot about this. We tend to put on different personas for the outside world. Because we feel like people won’t like us if we’re...
by Susan | Oct 9, 2024 | Lessons From the Horses
This is a blog post that I wrote in December of 2012 for a project I was working on then. The experience with A Runaway Sue was my last in the Quarter Horse Racehorse breeding business. Partly due to the money involved. Partly due to losing this mare. I gave up on it....
by Susan | Jul 10, 2024 | Lessons From the Horses, PlayShops
What Horses Teach About Patience and Presence It’s been a beautifully mild week for the first week in July. The horses are always teaching me new lessons. Morning Mindfulness with Ace and Patty This week it’s been to be present and mindful when going out to get Ace...
by Susan | Jan 18, 2023 | Awareness, Horses, Lessons From the Horses
Last week there was a transition. I moved my horses from the small acreage across the road from the house that my parents built to the farm – about six miles from town. We sold the little place now it was time to get the horses off. These are mares who haven’t been...
by Susan | Sep 28, 2022 | Horses, Lessons From the Horses
What would you think about today, Susan, if you knew each thought would be made manifest? What would you say today, Susan, if you knew that every word you choose will send great energy into motion? And what would you do today if you knew every action was already...
by Susan | Jul 13, 2022 | Awareness, Horses, Lessons From the Horses
I rode Ace for the first time on Saturday. We had checked the soreness in his back before I went to Hawaii. He didn’t seem to have any except up by his withers. Not only have I been worried about the soreness I’m a little intimidated by his size. I’ve never ridden a...