Mayberry Farm

08/15/2022

A great opportunity for Zone 3 riders!

Free shows?! Free Clinic?! YES!

The NBEA Zone 3 (Fredericton) Capital Region Equestrian Association has added two Bronze shows to the calendar - Dressage on September 10th and Hunter/Jumper on September 17th. They loved the idea of the NBEA's First Show Funding program and wanted to offer the same to all riders who live in Zone 3. ALL riders living in the Capital Zone attending either show as their first sanctioned competition will compete for FREE! 🤯

As an added bonus...

Donna McInnis will be judging the dressage show, then staying on to teach a clinic on the Sunday. Zone 3 riders who compete in the show can attend the clinic for FREE too!

More details: https://nbea.ca/Cap_Zone_Free_Show

You don't live in Zone 3? You may still be able to show free. We have a few spots left in the NBEA First Show Funding program. Register today to nab one of the spots!
Details: https://nbea.ca/Participants-So-You-Want-to-Compete

Thank you to Capital Zone committee for this amazing initiative. Trying out a sanctioned dressage or hunter/jumper show doesn't get any easier than this!!

08/10/2022

07/31/2022

Horse people

Let’s stop glorifying lack of self care as a marker of success

I get it- I’ve been training horses for a while- longer than some, far less time than others. I’ve lived on coffee and ibuprofen too. I was proud of getting right back on after an injury. I was proud of my ability to keep trucking along.

My horse has a body worker, nutritionist, fitness program and busy social life. And shoot, I deserve that too.

I realize it comes from a place of privilege to be able to prioritize self care, and will be more or less available to different people. I am working intensely on changing my life to move away from work only at my expense, to being able to care for me so I can work better. I’m making small, doable steps, and I feel much better. I don’t want to go back to coffee and ibuprofen as a meal. I want to feel my best so I can give my best to my horses.

Some folks will have less access to self care, some more. There are small things we all can do, no matter our situation- and the first one is to stop glorifying burnout. I have two little children watching me- I’d hate for them to grow up thinking the way to succeed is to drain yourself dry for others- there is always resentment on the other end of that kind of giving. I want them to love what they do, and give freely from a filled cup- with the freedom to give without strings or resentments.