Our convictions hold clues to our Purpose and Important Work.
~Chris Angell, One Million Messengers
Susan (Ohmart) Bloom & Carol Ann (Socolofsky) Ohmart win first place in Lead Line
I believe every little girl has a love of horses. Some of us are lucky enough to be hands-on and carry that passion into adulthood.
Horses have always been an important part of my life. One of my earliest memories is riding with my Aunt Barb I think at one of her college rodeos. Grandpa got me a pony when I was about five years old and my mother and I competed in lead pony. I was hooked.
I rode and showed throughout my childhood, teenage years, and into adulthood. When I got pregnant the third time, I gave it up – not intentionally it happened because of a lack of time. At that point, I was also raising Quarter Racehorses. Now I have a healing herd of four mares that I am not able to ride. I am ready to start riding again and have begun to look for something for myself and something for my two-year-old granddaughter.
Susan and Reed Man pole bending at the Kansas State High School Rodeo
When I graduated from high school and was headed for college, I had three different career paths in mind. One of them included horses. That was not the one I chose to follow. I spent two years at Kansas State University struggling to figure out what I wanted to do. I had three different majors in that time and finally came home because of a relationship gone south.
I moved back to my grandpa’s farmhouse where I was surrounded by horses – he raised Quarter Racehorses and had a yearling there that eventually won two big futurities and became a leading stallion in California. I also worked for my dad as he was moving his medical practice over to computerized insurance billing. I would come in in the evenings to catch up on the billing that his regular employees were not able to get completed during the day while they were making the change. Mike co-owned a bar that was across the alley from dad’s office. I often went there when I was done to see him.
In February I left to work with a horse trainer in the Wichita area. One evening while talking with another trainer who was working out of that barn, I decided that training was not for me. He said he was on the road at least six months of every year and I didn’t think that was the way I wanted to raise children. So, I went back home. I never intended to stay in Oakley. My heart had a different plan.
Susan and Zandy Parr jumping.
I do believe that if I would have followed one of my other career paths that horses would have diminished in my life. When I married Mike, we lived on a farm and I had my horses with me. I was able to show and enjoy them. As our lives progressed, I got some of grandpa’s racing mares, we had children, and eventually, I quit riding, but I’ve never been without horses in my life.
I always come back to the horses. Several years later and many before I started it, I found the Touched By A Horse Equine Gestalt Coaching Method. I asked Mike about the program. His response was something along the lines of I’m not spending any more money on those horses that aren’t making money. Then after three years of his illness and my full-time job being combined with another full-time job, I took the program idea to my dad. I thought that I had enough full-time jobs already with Mike’s illness and traveling to and from doctor’s appointments. I enrolled in the EGCM program in January 2016 not really knowing what I was in for.
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