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Master Zoom Recording

Wisdom Wednesday

Late. Because I forgot yesterday was Tuesday 🤷‍♀️.

Teaching Takeaways Milano Clinic

Postponed until 11-1.

A day late because of life.

Learning is uncomfortable. If you are comfortable in your learning, you probably are not be challenged enough. If you are comfortable you are not changing enough. Learning begins where our comfort zone ends.

Teaching Takeaways Heritage Oaks Part 3

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Teaching Takeaways Heritage Oaks Part 2

I was going to get on here and say I had a terrible day. But that is not true. I probably had the absolute worst hour of my teaching career. How I let it affect me the rest of my day is on me. There was a lot of good today! Much more good than bad. But isn't funny how we can let the one bad thing override all the good. We become fixated on that one negative thing and let it affect our perceptions of a situation, our opinion and our emotions. What if we let the good do

It takes longer to fix a horse that has incorrect training or never been taught to carry a rider than it does to start one correctly.

Teaching Takeaways Heritage Oaks Farm

I love these boots. They are my dress boots. Super comfortable.

Humans are too busy for horses. We are always moving and fidgeting. We are picking and fiddling. We need to quiet our bodies and minds. We expect our horses to be quiet and responsive. But we we are giving them too much stimulation and too much useless information. We need to become better at being in the moment and recognizing all our busyness is giving the horse too much useless information. They are trying to process it, usually by getting busy themselves. Then we

Your intitial reaction needs to turn into a thoughtful response. Your recovery is what counts.

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It is fulfilling to do the fun things with our horses visible to other people. Trail rides, shows, clinics, riding with friends, etc. To prepare for the fun, we must be committed to the everyday work to prepare our horses. If you want to enjoy your horse during outings, you must show up for your horse when no one is watching. You must commit to the work each day they develops the skills and partnerships. When you don't commit, your horse pays the price. It isn't fair to expec

Training or rehabbing a horse is not an overnight process. It is not a cheap process. To train or rehab a horse, the owner must be committed. The professionals trying to help the horse and owner must work within the boundaries the owner sets. Sometimes we decide we can't work within those boundaries. We know that no amount of effort we put in will make the difference needed for the horse based on the restrictions put in place by the owner. Those cases are hard. Our desire is