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Dr Shelley Appleton Calm Willing Confident Horses, Mundaring (2025)

26/09/2025

How are your rope skills - and why they might be your problem

I’m big on rope skills. Why? Because if you don’t have rope skills, everything else you do with a horse is already compromised.

Think about it: when you hang onto something that’s connected to a horse’s head, that’s not a casual accessory - it’s a line straight into their brain. Rope skills aren’t just about teaching a horse to feel the rope instead of bracing against it. They’re also about risk management.

The reason I’m confident with horses isn’t magic, fairy dust, or secret handshakes - it’s primarily my rope skills. I can pick up a rope and give it meaning. I can control the pressure a horse experiences with me. I can send energy down it to say “go back,” or soften it to say “come.” It’s how I build the building blocks that eventually become the reins. But also, the rope is the telephone line the horse first gets to hear how I explain myself - and that matters a lot.

You see rope skills aren’t about fancy tricks. They start with the most boring, overlooked thing of all—how you pick it up. Next time you go out, watch how your hand takes hold of that lead rope. Watch how your horse responds. Because whether you like it or not, they’re already giving you a report card.

When you pick up the rope do they follow willingly or are they dragging you to the grass or do they suddenly stare off into the distance?

If you’re struggling with your horse, this is where you start. Because the rope in your hand isn’t just a rope - it’s how you establish dialogue with your horse. And if you butcher the grammar here, don’t be surprised when the essay later reads like gibberish.

This is my Collective Advice entry 36/365 of my notebook challenge - save it, share it but don't copy and paste it.

IMAGE📸: Me drawing attention at my clinic to my hand on the rope and the impact the rope has on the horse.

25/09/2025

Horses Are the Greatest Teachers BUT They Do Not Teach Us Everything

Some say horses teach you everything you need to know about horses. I disagree. At first, I had to learn how to listen to them. Then I had to learn what to do with what I heard. It was a human teacher that gave me this gift. Only then did the real lessons begin.

I can honestly say I am who I am today because of the horses I’ve met. But without more knowledgeable people guiding me, those horses got stuck teaching me two things: frustration and fear. And here’s the important part—frustration and fear are signals. They’re not dead ends; they’re markers telling you your understanding has reached its limit. They mean there’s something more to learn so find that teacher!

Yes, you could argue that it was the frustration and fear horses stirred in me that led me to grow. But the lessons only became profound once I learned to interpret horses.

I’m currently finishing editing a third book—a collection of stories written by people about their horses. Because while horses may not teach us everything, their lessons are the most profound. Stories carry those lessons from one mind to another, and in doing so, they keep the memory of our horses alive. Great horses deserve that. They deserve legacy.

This is Collectable Advice 34/365 of my notebook challenge. Save it, Share it but no copying and pasting.

IMAGE📸 : The ebook versions of my story collections are available for free—because the lessons our horses give us deserve to be shared widely. These books are created as part of my "Teaching People How to Work with Horses course" as well as my Society Membership. Hard copies are also available for the cost of their printing. I will pop in the comments how to find them and will let everyone know when the latest book is published.

24/09/2025

Why Galloping in the Paddock Doesn’t Mean Your Horse Is Fine

People see a horse bucking, galloping, and tearing around the paddock and think: “Well, clearly he’s fine! Look at him go!”

Nope. Wrong. The wrongest wrong assumption.

Here’s why:

1️⃣Choice vs control. Out in the paddock, the horse decides how to move. They buck, twist, gallop, and it’s all on their own terms. But strap on a saddle, pin them in a frame, demand a perfect circle - and suddenly they have no choice in posture, gait, or line. If something’s not right in their body, that lack of control turns discomfort into stress.

2️⃣Adrenaline is nature’s painkiller. Excitement and speed mask pain. A horse fizzing with adrenaline can look like fabulousness while quietly carrying a significant injury or soundness issue.

So please, never assume that a horse running around means they’re “fine.” My own horse - pictured on the left - had sesamoiditis, an inflammatory condition in the small bones of his fetlock. Less than a year after that photo, I had to say goodbye. That day he ran like the wind because he was excited to see his best mate, not because he was sound.

Adrenaline masks the truth—fast feet don’t mean sound legs.

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23/09/2025

The Human Side of Horsemanship: Respecting Complexity

Everyone thinks they know how to teach. Fair enough - we’ve all been to school, and most of us assume learning works for others the way it worked (or didn’t work) for us. That’s why teaching often defaults to talking AT people.

The problem? Human learning is far more complex. It’s tangled up with what people already know, what they think they know, how they feel, and how they identify themselves. Teaching means navigating all that - patience required.

What doesn’t work? Screaming and yelling. That teaches about as well as chasing a horse with a whip. Which is to say, badly.

If you care about horses, you have to care about people - because it’s only through the minds of people that horses can be helped.

This is my Collectable Advice Entry 32/365 of my notebook challenge. Save it, Share it (but not copying and pasting it).

IMAGE📸: Me at one of my favourite clinic locations in Grafton in NSW. If you are interested in helping people like I do my 6 week Teaching People How to Work with Horses course starts 1 November, check out the comments.

23/09/2025

Look at this Picture - What Do You See?
(A long post for those with resilient attention spans)

The Problem with Only Seeing the Problem

Be honest - your eye went straight to the dot, didn’t it? You zoomed in on the flaw, the mistake, the tiny blot that interrupts the clean page. That’s how most of us are wired. School taught us to circle errors in red pen, work taught us to obsess over weaknesses in performance reviews, and riding horses taught us to fixate on heads, hocks, necks - the “problem.”

The black dot ⚫️

But here’s the thing: your horse isn’t the dot. Your horse is the whole bloody rectangle.

And the sooner we stop dot-hunting, the sooner we actually start seeing what our horses are showing us.

1️⃣ The Seduction of the Black Dot

We humans bloody love a black dot. A lame step here, a sticky joint there, a hoof angle that looks like it was filed during happy hour. We cling to that single “wrong” thing because it gives us something to blame. Something to circle, name, and throw money at.

But horses aren’t black dots. They’re the system - the muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, organs, hormones, biochemistry, posture, motion, behaviour, and more... including yes, the attitude they give you when you turn up late with the feed bucket.

2️⃣ When the Black Dot Doesn’t Show Up on the Scan

💔 Here’s the truth: sometimes the X-ray machine or ultrasound won’t find the black dot. Not because the horse is faking it, but because the problem isn’t a neat little lesion hiding in a diagnostic pixel. It’s the entire system that’s overloaded, crooked, or worn down.

And that disappoints people. We love a dot we can circle in red and say “Ah, there’s the villain!” But clinging to dot-thinking blinds us to the obvious. The evidence is etched in the horse’s muscles, posture, and behaviour. The horse is telling the truth with every wonky step, every over-developed muscle, collapsed core, or sour expression. We just have to stop dot-hunting long enough to believe them.

3️⃣ Compensation: The Body’s Survival Party Trick

Horses are world-class compensators. If something hurts or feels tight, or one side’s stronger than the other, or the saddle fits like a torture device, the body doesn’t stop. It adapts. That’s compensation: the body’s way of staying upright, moving forward, trying to feel comfortable and keeping you from landing face-first in the dirt.

It’s clever. It’s essential. It’s also a ticking time bomb. Because when the horse leans on the same compensation strategy, step after step, day after day, tissues designed for variety and balance start waving little white flags. Eventually, something gives.

4️⃣ Load Transfer (a.k.a. Force Transfer for Nerds)

Every step a horse takes is about load transfer - how weight and stress move through the body. Biomechanics nerds call it force transfer, but it’s the same idea.

⚖️ If the ground reaction force (that’s the push from the earth every time a hoof hits the ground) doesn’t travel through the joint in a neat, balanced way, the soft tissues have to fight like mad to stop the joint twisting into oblivion. A little of that? Fine. Every damn step, every damn day? Hello tendon injury, fast-tracked arthritis, anxious horse or much more.

5️⃣ The White Rectangle View

The rectangle is where the truth lives. The posture, the history written into muscles, the way they stand, move, swing, bend, and rotate. The way a horse’s behaviour shifts when its body isn’t coping: the refusal, the napping, the agitation at the mounting block.

See the rectangle, and you stop playing endless whack-a-mole with symptoms. You start seeing the story. And that’s where prevention, longevity, and actual soundness live.

6️⃣ So What Do We Do About It? (Spoiler: Stop Thinking Like Accountants)

This is the part where someone always asks: “Yes, but what can we do?” As if there’s a neat checklist, a black dot solution to the rectangle problem.

The answer: stop thinking in silos. Start thinking holistically.

Hooves: A foot isn’t just a foot. It’s a bloody foundation stone. An unbalanced hoof torques everything above it. Farriers aren’t trimming toenails; they’re managing load transfer.

Teeth: That uneven wear isn’t cosmetic. It twists the poll, skews the neck, derails the front end. Teeth give the brain important data. If the teeth are out of whack, the data is faulty — and the whole body pays.

Saddle fit: A saddle that pinches or slides doesn’t just annoy the horse. It rewrites posture, one compensation at a time. You’ve just trained asymmetry, not to mention damaged tissues.

Gut health: Fascia, muscle tone, and behaviour all go to hell when the horse’s internal chemistry is off. A cranky gut = a cranky body.

Bodywork & training: The right hands and the right exercises don’t “fix” the horse. They give the system options. They remind the body of pathways it’s forgotten, instead of forcing it to hammer the same old crooked groove.

No single guru, gadget, or injection is the magic dot preventer. It’s the collaboration — vet, farrier, dentist, saddle fitter, nutritionist, trainer, bodyworker, and your impact in the saddle — that keeps the rectangle intact.

7️⃣ Believe the Horse

Here’s the take-home message: stop waiting for the X-ray fairy to conjure a black dot so you can finally “believe” your horse.

The horse has already told you. It’s etched on their bodies and it’s shouted through movement and behaviour.

Believe the horse 🐴. Believe the rectangle.🔲

Because once you stop dot-hunting and start rectangle-seeing, you don’t just fix problems — you PREVENT them. You don’t just “manage” breakdowns — you stop them happening in the first place.

That’s how horses stay sound, willing, and alive in body and spirit. Not because we circled the right dot, but because we finally had the insight to see the whole bloody page.

RESPECT✊: To Tami Elkayam Equine Bodywork for opening my eyes and teaching me to see rectangles and not black dots. Canter Therapy Podcast just released a full discussion with Tami on this exact topic. We also discuss some seriously important insights about mares - link below❤

22/09/2025

The 13 Second Rule - Learn It

When a horse startles, their orienting reflex kicks in - they shoot up to 18hh, lock onto the source, and you swear you can feel their heart pounding through your saddle. Then comes the investigatory reflex - ears, eyes, nostrils all screaming: “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!”

Here’s the important risk management bit: horses are actually brilliant at working out if something’s a real threat. What usually screws it up is us. Riders grab, yank, panic, and - congratulations - you’ve just turned a startle into a full-blown rodeo or bolting freak out. That is because your response made the startled horse feel 10000% more threatened.

Dr Andrew McLean showed that if we stay calm, a horse’s heart rate can start lowering in about 13 seconds. That’s it. Thirteen measly seconds. So breathe and start counting, wait for the ear flick or head shift, and only then step in.

Because your calm buys recovery. Your panic buys chaos.

This is Collectable Advice 31/365 – Save it or Share it (no copying and pasting).

IMAGE📸: Incredible image captured by the amazing Lynn Jenkin.

21/09/2025

To influence, you must first detect. To detect, you must first observe.

Yesterday I visited one of my favourite private clinic sites, a riding school that dares to be different. Instead of giving the usual riding lessons, the coaches are reimagining what a riding school can be.

When they meet the right client, they offer to start from the ground up, teaching people to understand horses before they ever climb into the saddle.

They’ve been learning my process, practicing with dedication, and experimenting with real courage. I love their vision. And when I visit, I meet their clients—people who arrived expecting ordinary riding lessons but instead found themselves delightfully blindsided by an entirely new reality: discovering who horses truly are.

Some haven’t ridden in decades; others have only ever dreamt of it. Every single one says the same thing: they expected “riding lessons,” but what they got was something life-changing. They learned how clever horses really are, how to communicate clearly, and—most profoundly—how to observe.

At first, they thought I was magical, but I showed them that I wasn’t doing anything mystical. I was simply working with horses as they are, trusting them to be horses, and translating that understanding into action. And then—astonishingly—they found they could do it too.

In the round yard, everything comes alive. It’s the perfect classroom: no reins, no stirrups, no shortcuts. Just you, your body, your awareness, and the horse’s mind, body and instincts. People quickly discover how uncoordinated they feel… then, within minutes, how much more fluid and confident they can become. That transformation is electric.

The moral of the story? Twofold:
1️⃣These coaches deserve to be celebrated for daring to do something different. I hope one day to put their names up in lights and tell those dreaming of learning to ride or get back into horses to visit these beautiful humans.

2️⃣Human behaviour profiler, Chase Hughes says: “Influence is about detection first, not persuasion.” And he’s right. Before you can lead—horse or human—you must learn to observe, to detect, to read. These coaches are giving their clients the gift of seeing, and that is infinitely more powerful than "just" learning to ride.

👉 My Teaching People How to Work with Horses course starts on 1 November. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to teach the trickier species (yep, the human 😆) and step into the work I do, check the first comment.

This is my Collectable Advice Entry 30/365 of my notebook challenge, where I share good ideas from the pages of my notebook collection. Save it or Share it ❤

20/09/2025

CAN YOU GET A HORSE “WITH” YOU?

⚠️ Satire Warning: May mildly offend people pleasers and perfectionists - but only because you’re brilliant enough to get it.

See those two horses? They’re not doing mindfulness, downloading an app, or writing affirmations in a gratitude journal. They’re just with each other. Call it connection if you want, but I prefer “with.”

When horses are with each other, they’re more curious, more confident, and more likely to investigate than to bu**er off. Why? Because they’re operating as a team. Processing. Assessing. Pooling their horsey superpowers. They’re not alone, they’re not with me - they’re with each other. And together, they decided I was worth a sticky-beak.

Now here’s the kicker: if you want partnership with a horse, you need them to be with you. Not in some mystical spirit-animal way, but in a “bubble” with you. (Respect to Kathleen Beckham for this terminology for this element of partnership - find her and hit follow).

When a horse is truly with you, they let you do the heavy lifting of assessing the world. And let’s be honest, we humans are annoyingly good at deciding whether that flappy tarp is a horse-eating monster or just…a tarp. Being with us can be the safest place a horse knows.

But - and it’s a big but - this is not natural for a horse. They don’t just wake up one morning thinking, “Yeah, Shelley over there looks like a solid survival strategy.” You have to teach them. And to teach it, you’ve got to get in the bubble yourself.

Which is exactly where people come unstuck. Perfectionists, control freaks, and people pleasers are the worst offenders. Their bubble isn’t a safe haven. It’s more like climbing into a car with a twitchy learner driver who’s catastrophising about every “what if” and still hasn’t worked out the handbrake. Horses don’t want to ride shotgun in that mess.

Look at the photo. Imagine if the lead horse was a perfectionist control freak, people-pleasing bundle of nerves. Do you think it would stroll up to me relaxed and curious? Not a chance.
And yes, I can say this with confidence…because I was that nervous driver once. A reforming perfectionist, control freak, people-pleaser who finally worked out what I was doing wrong and show others how to do it.

Collectable Advice 29/365 - Save it, share it, tattoo it on your forehead if you like — but don’t copy-paste it. That’s a no-no🙅‍♀️.
And if you’re curious about this whole “bubble” business (aka getting your horse "with you" instead of mentally in the field 2kms away), that’s literally what I teach — really, really well. 👊🐴
Come hang out in my community with other brilliantly different equestrians who appreciate straight talk, zero fluff, and collaboration that doesn’t feel like a cult. Link in comments.

19/09/2025

I have a Trick for you to Try (and Why It’s Bloody Powerful)

I’ve always told my clients: do things beautifully with your horse.
- Halter and lead them beautifully.
- Send them through a gate beautifully.
- Pick up their feet beautifully...and so on.

Because let’s be honest - there’s nothing beautiful about wrestling a horse through a gate and hoping your horse sees you as a lovely human. 😬

But then I listened to a Mel Robbins podcast with Emma Grede - and Emma doesn’t say “beautiful.” She says excellence. And I thought: right, that’s it. Beautiful is nice, but it sounds like flower crowns and Instagram filters. Excellence is gritty. It’s sharp. It’s powerful.

Excellence = About Me (Not the Horse)
Here’s the thing: excellence isn’t about the horse. The horse can be themselves and completely honest about how they feel. But they do care if you’re clear, fair, and not a freaked-out human or an over-the-top drill sergeant.

Let me explain...

Excellence is about me. My awareness. My choices. My contribution to the interaction.

The horse doesn’t have to be perfect. In fact, they shouldn’t be. That’s the whole point of training. I just have to be excellent in how I respond, in how I communicate, and in how I adapt when something goes pear-shaped.

The Gym Epiphany
So I tested this trick in the gym. Resistance training. (Yes, I do it. No, I don’t enjoy it. I call my trainer Tania the Torturer and she is brilliant at her job. 💪)

Like everyone else, I hit the wall when my muscles scream, “We’re done!” But instead of quitting, I flipped the switch: do it excellently.
I tightened my form, breathed properly, rejected the urge to just go faster and moved deliberately. And suddenly - the rep got easier. Not because I’d magically become Wonder Woman, but because my brain stopped whinging long enough to do its job.
Every single time I have used this strategy I have not only survived but impressed myself in one go. Dare I say it - it has made training less painful and more doable.😳

That’s the trick. 😃

Why This Works (Science, but Not Boring)

- Neuroplasticity: Neurons that fire together wire together. Sloppy reps = sloppy wiring. Sloppy horse handling = sloppy wiring. Excellent reps or horse handling = competence on autopilot.

- Mindfulness Without Meditation 🧘‍♀️ : Excellence yanks you into the present because it makes you pay attention and focuses your thoughts. Instead of you being stuck overthinking.

- Biomechanics: Doing things excellently means your body works the way it was designed for best functionality. More efficiency, fewer injuries, and you become a better load to carry for the horse.

- Reward System: The brain hands out dopamine for effort done well. It’s like a tiny internal cheer squad yelling, “Yes, look at you go, bloody well done!” 🎉

Not Perfectionism (Because That’s Toxic)🚫

Excellence is not perfectionism.
- Perfectionism is re-braiding your horse’s mane five times because it isn’t Instagram straight.
- Excellence is braiding it once with care, then getting on with the actual riding.

Excellence is alive. Flexible. Kind. It’s about quality, not flawlessness. It’s about caring without being an to yourself or your horse.😎

Notebook Challenge (Entry 28/365)
This is entry 28/365 of my Notebook Challenge Collectable Advice. Save it. Share it. But don’t copy and paste it - because that would be the exact opposite of excellence (i.e. crap).

And share it wide. I want as many people as possible to try this.

Focus on excellence.✅ (not perfectionism remember!)

So try it. Clean the house excellently. Train your horse excellently. Survive the gym excellently. Then come back and tell me what happened.❤

Link to the podcast in comments, it got some other wise thoughts too.

18/09/2025

Get Out of the Rabbit Holes that Get You Stuck 🐇🕳️

Here’s something I see all the time: people obsessing over emotions and stress. The horse’s emotions. Their own emotions. The trainer’s emotions. The neighbour’s emotions. Emotions, emotions, emotions. Meanwhile, the horse is standing there getting twitchier by the second, because all their survival settings are flicking on 😬.

Here’s the kicker: you don’t solve a horse’s issue by standing on the end of a lead rope, squinting at every ear flick and waiting for a magical “release.” That’s madness. And if someone tries to tell you a twitch means one specific thing, they’re selling you ignorance 🚩. Twitches can mean anything: a horse zoning out for a nap, a horse escalating in concern, or a horse dropping into a funky dissociative shutdown as a coping strategy. If you build your training plan around that, you’re not training a horse… you’re emotionally live-streaming their coping mechanisms.

The truth? Emotions and stress responses are transient. They pass. They shift. They change. They’re not solid ground to build a training plan on. Horses don’t need therapy sessions in the paddock. They need clarity, consistency, and a human who trusts two simple facts:

1)Horses are brilliant at learning
2)Training is the art of setting them up to discover they are safe - with you, with what you ask, and wherever you take them.

The problem is, many people never get exposed to solid, practical training. My first introduction was so bad I dismissed it outright. And honestly, you only really “get it” once you’ve trained enough different horses to see the patterns, the variations, and learn how to adapt.

Those of us who’ve worked with enough horses don’t need to obsess like that — because we’ve built trust. Trust in ourselves. Trust in training. And above all, trust in horses.

I don’t obsess or get paralysed by the emotions of horses because I trust horses to be the extraordinary learners they are. To adapt. To try again. To give you another chance when you set it up right. And here’s the beautiful thing: when a horse learns, it transforms their emotions into a calmer, more confident place ❤️.

That’s what I teach people — because the rabbit holes aren’t where the answers are. They’re just distractions dressed up as depth. The answers live in the basics: clarity, timing, and the quiet confidence of trusting the process.

So if you’re stuck swirling around in feelings, here’s my advice: hop out of the rabbit hole. Hand the horse the chance to do what it does best. Learn

This is Collectable Advice Entry 27/365. Save it. Share it. But don’t copy–paste - plagiarism is not cool.

IMAGE 📸: A minutes before this photograph this horse was aggressive and lashing out. Her emotions were very negative. I just trusted her to learn and she did. I didn't have to punish her, avoid her - I started training her. And it took me maybe 15 minutes and that completely changed the way she felt about me and what I was asking her to do. ❤

17/09/2025

You Can’t Skip the Storm 🌩️🐎

Back in 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman invested what made great teams great. In doing so he identified four stages of team building:
-> Forming - you meet and everyone’s polite and optimistic.
-> Storming - everyone stops being polite and there is conflict.
-> Norming - people start figuring out their jobs and how to work together.
-> Performing - the magic happens and great teams become great teams.

People tried for years to “fix” the model by skipping storming altogether - like a crash diet for relationships. But without storming, teams never hit performing. They just sat in a swamp of politeness or passive-aggressive resentment and conflict.

And here’s where it gets interesting: what’s true for sport or office teams is also true for horse-human partnerships.

Let's examine it🕵️‍♀️

🥰 The Honeymoon
You test ride a horse (or collect your young horse freshly started), it is wonderful. At first, it’s magical. You’ve got new tack, fresh dreams, and maybe a colour-coordinated saddle pad (or three). This is forming and it might last a 5 minutes or a few weeks...

🌪 The Storm
Then… it wobbles. Your horse bolts, spooks, ignores you, or generally seems to have read a different rulebook. Welcome to storming.

Most riders do one of two things here:
➡️Lock horns forever - turning every ride into a tug-of-war of frustration.
➡️Avoid conflict - convincing themselves “we just need more time” while quietly losing confidence.

Both keep you stuck in the storm...let's delve deeper🤓

What Partnership Actually Means⬇️

People get starry-eyed about “partnership” with a horse, like it’s a rom-com montage where you gallop ba****ck into the sunset.

But practically, here’s what it means:

Your job as the human is to use your human superpower = decision-making - to guide direction, speed, and destination in a world the horse didn’t exactly volunteer for (traffic, floats, plastic bags).

The horse’s job is to put that guidance into action - move, carry, turn, stop - while you make sure you’re not riding like a sack of potatoes.

It’s not equal. You hold more power because you make the calls. Which means you also hold more responsibility. The horse becomes your primary consideration in every decision: their body, their confidence, their long-term soundness.

And here’s the kicker: every partnership has to be consciously created. Horses don’t automatically “download” the new human’s operating system. When you trial a horse at their current home, you’re riding the ghost of the usual rider. When you bring them home, they suddenly have you - who feels, smells, and rides differently. Storming is inevitable (in fact it is part of what I call "New Home Syndrome").

Why Guidance Matters

Same goes when you pick up a freshly started horse from the trainer. That horse knows the trainer, not you. You’re a whole new foreign language. This is why good trainers beg clients to come and learn how to take over. Without support, storming turns from a drizzle into a full-blown cyclone.😔

And here’s the delusional bit: hoping you can skip storming by treating the horse like a pre-programmed motorcycle. Horses are not motorbikes. They are living, breathing, incredible creatures with their own perceptions, memories, and opinions. Pretending otherwise never ends well - for horse, rider, or trainer’s reputation.

The Work That Matters

The solution isn’t magic. It’s skill. Learn the basics of creating a foundation, of guiding communication step by step. Regardless of how "educated the horse is". Start from the basics. Learn how to listen, observe, and adjust. That’s what turns storming into drizzle, and drizzle into performing.

That’s the real partnership: a horse and a human who understand each other, each playing their role, each trusting the other enough to keep going forward. And it’s not built by skipping the storm - it’s built by navigating through it, with a raincoat of skill, awareness, and patience.

This is Collectable Advice Entry 26/365 of my notebook challenge. Save it. Share it. But don’t copy and paste it and pretend it’s yours - it is my learnings and teachings you can find out more about in the comments.❤

IMAGE 📸: Nony and Flirst, one of my favourite photographs I have ever taken at a clinic.

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