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A year of learning, listening, and supporting — together.Training, rehab and problem solving insight, ride-along podcast...
12/01/2026

A year of learning, listening, and supporting — together.
Training, rehab and problem solving insight, ride-along podcasts, community chat, and a calm, safe space for horse people who care deeply and want practical ways to help themselves and their horses gain deeper connection.
If you have been here in 2025 or the years before, thank you, your support means so much. Here’s to another year of community and support from the horse person who always wished for something like this when she needed it ❤️

Day 2 of the new year 🤍I wanted to give a little update.I wrote candidly about the anxiety attack I had on New Year’s Ev...
02/01/2026

Day 2 of the new year 🤍
I wanted to give a little update.

I wrote candidly about the anxiety attack I had on New Year’s Eve, and I think it’s important to say this: the change hasn’t been sudden — but compared to last January, I am different. And I want to offer a little hope.

My understanding of how anxiety works in the body is so much deeper now. In the simplest terms, this is what I’ve learned:

• Safety is the opposite of anxiety
• Anxiety is transient if we allow it to be
• Not all thoughts are true
• Learning about nervous system regulation can be life-changing
• Some parts of us show up to protect us — and they can feel like anxiety. When we stop fighting those parts and instead meet them with compassion, anxiety can come and go

I still have anxiety. I’m not a master of my nervous system (and probably never will be). But I understand it better. That understanding allows me to let it pass, to trace where it’s coming from, and to offer my body what it actually needs.

None of this would have been possible without Bev. I’d done years of talking therapy and felt stuck repeating the same story — almost reliving it. With Bev, we still talk about the hard things, but from a regulated body, so we’re not endlessly re-traumatising ourselves.

Two days after being so anxious I was throwing up at the thought of moving my entire life… im doing much better. Remembering that when sensations or triggers arrive, it’s not danger — it’s an unsafe nervous system asking for safety and grounding.

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Not a miracle cure. Not one-size-fits-all. But there is light. And no Bev didn’t ask me to write this.

One of my favourite pictures ever

Surviving winter. A short story. The rug is the comfitec ultra from have them in the sale right now and I can’t recomm...
02/01/2026

Surviving winter. A short story.
The rug is the comfitec ultra from have them in the sale right now and I can’t recommend them highly enough. Tough as hell, not heavy to put on or when wet. They have a liner system, the new Velcro on the neck means they don’t get a drafty wet patch. We have been testing them for a few months and they absolutely pass the test for us. Your pony will thank me later ❤️
All my horses are fed on speedibeet, linseed grass chaff and .uk mineral balancer. Simple and effective.

01/01/2026

How I spent my first day (new years eve) of being a cat owner to Lyra. On the 30th of December I took Lyra (the cat who turned up at the new farm) to the vets to check if she had a microchip. Fast forward 24hours and she’s been officially signed over to me. She does however have some medical needs so we are starting to give her some metacam and I’ll see how she goes and then consider whether at her age (16!!!) we do a dental. She’s the sweetest girl and I can’t wait to have her curled up on the sofa when we move. In the meantime a heat pad every night and a fully tummy will have to be a start. ❤️ I find it really hard not taking her home but she’s always been a farm cat so her sheltered warm house and lovely food puts my mind at rest.

New year new me… if only it was that simple. If you are waking up this morning reading this feeling a bit deflated readi...
01/01/2026

New year new me… if only it was that simple. If you are waking up this morning reading this feeling a bit deflated reading everyone’s 2025 in reviews posts then yeah… me too. This year has been tough, I have embraced near constant anxiety and ruminating thoughts this year. At a time when everything is meant to be the best thing ever cause of the move I’m still faced with doubt, uncertainty, fear and a general sense that I’m not safe in my own body and it’s really hard. It’s better than it was but a whole year of not having the right help in 2024 and a therapist who genuinely tried to get me to tell me self ‘anxiety isn’t that bad, there are worse things that can happen’ left me with some big patterns to shift. I wish I had met Bev sooner but that wasn’t the path I was meant to take so here we are. I had an anxiety attack last night, the vomiting panic, whole thing, something about the turning of the new year being a sort of shift maybe, how this year after 5 years of hoping and wishing we will actually get to live our dream, but with that comes a lot of pressure and a fear I have is that I’ll move and then I’ll be anxious every day for the rest of my life, why can’t I just be excited, why does my body have to practice such big feelings. It’s not rational but fear isn’t, I’m also scared of sharks in swimming pools it’s just the person I am. So if like me you don’t feel like a brand new person today that’s ok, we aren’t caterpillars that one day emerge into butterfly’s, life evolution takes time and it definitely doesn’t get to fit to some random calendar someone invented a really long time ago. One day I’ll be a big brave butterfly but today I’ll be something else and that’s ok too ❤️

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Buckwood Lane
Kensworth
LU62PQ

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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07919542254

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