04/24/2024
This. The end.
I’ve mostly gone away from posting before and after pictures.
People become photography experts with specialties in lighting and angles and somehow think I’m trying to dupe them and it can be so draining. Skepticism is one thing, but I don’t ever enjoy the “prove it” energy.
It isn’t what I do this work for and it steals away its sacredness.
But when Picasso greeted me for our session last week, I was really drawn into the asymmetry in his handsome face.
Enough to snap a quick picture.
When we wrapped up, I snapped another.
Take from it what you will.
I’m just constantly amazed by what the body can do.💛
**Going to edit this to add a few things…**
Whew. This sure turned into a wildfire.
Maybe I should have talked more about what I felt and saw in him before posting to mitigate these wild assumptions, or maybe it would have done nothing at all and I’d still have taken the reaming that I have.
First…It’s the same horse.
Frankly, it never even occurred to me that anyone could think otherwise.
There are so many people claiming it to be two different horses and it simply isn’t.
His forelock moved over the course of the session, covering part of his star.
This was addressed in the comments very early on, so yeah, when notifications pop up saying things like “Wow you even shrunk her star!😉” they will be completely ignored by me because it tells me that you not only didn’t read the post enough to know this is a gelding, not a mare, you also didn’t look to see that this had been addressed already.
Second, for everybody saying that I’m claiming to change the entire shape of the skull (also generally in a rude way, thanks) the asymmetry in the face is also very much to do with the tilt in his head, which was why I didn’t manipulate the before picture to begin with.
People have drawn their own lines within their own conclusions saying “well if you tilt his head then the eyes aren’t as unlevel” and that the vertical lines don’t quite match…yeah. Bingo. You got it.
This was how his head was situated on his neck, and also why I didn’t manipulate the picture to start with. It’s part of it.
I didn’t make that clear when I mentioned facial asymmetry. Maybe I should have said cranial asymmetry instead.
That being said, there are cranial bones that are moveable in living horses.
Craniosacral therapy is a well-developed, scientific modality. I didn’t make it up, it’s been well known and researched for decades.
I encourage you to find out for yourself instead of making daft claims.
And for those saying “Well when you post anything you’re opening yourself up to criticism so why bother if you can’t take it?”
Yep. True. I posted this knowing that there would inevitably be people who aren’t satisfied.
It isn’t a perfect picture and I never claimed it to be. I didn’t claim to fix anything. I didn’t claim to adjust anything. I didn’t claim anything about it actually, only that it they were two casually taken pictures.
Yeah, the lighting is different because I take my time working on horses.
I don’t work on them in a photography studio, I work on them in stalls or pastures in daylight, which changes.
Skepticism and questioning is one thing.
Incessant heckling is another.
How can we ever move forward in the betterment of horses if we meet anything unfamiliar with ridicule? This is not the way.
As someone said, it’s a very human response, but I’d say collectively that we need to do better if this industry is to improve.
There is this notion that people who post must take whatever blind beating social media decides is coming to them with a smile on our face and should we reply we’re either being rude, dishonest, defensive, sensitive, manipulative, victimizing, yada yada yada.
Standing up for ourselves is necessary sometimes and I can have a sharp tongue.
Over 24 hours of ridiculous and unfounded accusations is enough, some of which weren’t even made by legitimate accounts.
I share this stuff because I know that there are horses out there who need this work, be it from me or any other of the thousands of practitioners.
If I let miserable people dictate what I share on my own business page in order to avoid criticism then I will never reach those owners who are searching for answers for their horses and getting nowhere.
So I’ll take the bad with the good if it means that the horses will get what they need.
So, while I apologize for posting an apparently unsatisfactory comparison with too little explanation, if you’re only here to be rude, your comments will be ignored.
Once upon a time I would turn off the comments, ban obnoxious people, delete the post, whatever was necessary to avoid the discomfort that goes along with disapproval.
I’m not doing that this time.
I’m happy to talk, but not if you’re hell bent on misunderstanding me.
For anybody who actually read this far, I encourage you to research craniosacral therapy for yourself and have a look at the posts I’ve shared today from another page with a fabulous practitioner who can explain the science in much more depth given that she’s got so much experience with CST and her own modalities.
