Horses & Autism 🐴♾️💫
Today I want to share a little more deeply on how Horse & Human came to be and how it is evolving... 🐴💫In 2019, I set Horse & Human up as a blog site. After exiting the veterinary profession a year earlier and wondering [...]
The Season of Letting Go 🍂
Have you ever contemplated how, as humans, we tend to view ourselves as separate from nature? When the truth is we are made of the very same stuff as the earth, the stars and the universe! 💫🌏🤯 It’s an illusion, noted by [...]
The Power of Culture: Elevating Horse Welfare by Healing Ourselves
You may have seen on the news that prior to the Paris Olympics dressage rider Charlotte Dujardin was suspended from competition following the release of a video showing her repeatedly whipping a horse during a training session. This event, just like any [...]
The Portal of the Present
What we feel in the present is a portal not a punishment, here I share an example of how surrendering to the present moment allows energy to shift and reveal a new way. I have reproduced this inner process exactly as it [...]
Origin Story
I’ve been living alongside horses for as long as I can remember. Coming from a non-horsey family I gravitated to them from a young age and have not left their side since. I also grew up bewildered by our human world, seeing [...]
Self-Love and the New Year
Hi everyone, It’s been a little while but as we move into 2022 I wanted to share something with you all and of course wish you well for the year ahead. But maybe thinking in years isn’t always that helpful? One day at [...]
Part Eight: The Horse
Welcome to the final part of this blog series – the week it’s all been leading up to. The reason I have taken so much time to lay the foundations for this week is to give people the understanding, that I believe [...]
Part Seven: The Courage to Stay
Hello and welcome to part seven. This is the final week before our four-legged friends join the mix, so hang on in there! Before we wrap up our final non-equestrian element, let’s have a quick recap. Over the first three weeks we [...]
Part Six: The Balance of Being and Doing – including implications for the veterinary profession
Welcome to week six. We’ve had a pretty full on five weeks working hard to cover the groundwork necessary to understand the power of ‘equine facilitated practice’, so let’s take a moment to pause and catch our breath. The content we’ve explored [...]
Part Five: Beyond an Idea
In the words of Albert Einstein, ‘no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness on which it was created’. If our global problem of social disconnection stems from identification with the thought of who we are (ego), thus disconnecting [...]