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Anything but Yes is NO
At a clinic recently, I was asked a question regarding saddling a horse or any other type of activity to the horse, where the horse was ear pinning and biting at the handler, and what would be my response or how would I handle the situation. I did explain a few things that I would do (and have done) in…
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Slow equals fast
In all of the years that I barrel raced or cattle penned, it was all about speed. That’s the sport that I enjoyed the most, because it was it was judged based on my abilities and time, the clock. It wasn’t based on how pretty I looked in the ring or how effectively I was riding my horse. It was…
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2019: Year in review
I began setting goals for the 2019 year in late 2018. I had just wrapped up my 2018 clinics with Jim Anderson, when I knew that I wanted to work on team liberty as a goal for this year. I am not necessarily someone who formally writes down goals or makes “resolutions” at the start of a new year. But…
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The Journey Is The Destination
There’s a saying “if you don’t know where you’re going how will you know when you get there?” For many years, I believed that we needed to have a destination – a clear goal – so that we knew it when we got there. The challenge, for me at least, with goal setting, was that I would get stuck on…
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Light Hands Soft Mind
I took this picture at a recent clinic where I was working with folks on building a connection with their horses. I had seen this done in a video that Warwick Schiller put out a few years ago, and it stuck with me. However, this was the first time that I used it, and quite frankly I had no idea…
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Doing Less To Get More!
Welcome to 2019! This is the goal that I set for myself as we were wrapping up 2018. I want to chronicle my progress with JT and so I’m going to incorporate the fact that I’ve been studying with Elsa Sinclair (Freedom Based Training), and really opening up to doing less to get more, and essentially giving myself the freedom…
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How Far We Have Come
What is really fascinating is to look back and see just how far you have come. Often we’re told to not look back because we’re not going that way – but every once in awhile taking that moment to peak back in time just to reaffirm your accomplishments is absolutely gratifying. There are times in sweat and tears that you’re…
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Introducing JT
I had been casually looking for a project horse for several months. Not exactly sure what I was looking for but would know when I found it. When I started this new found horsemanship journey with Ozzy it began with hate. I didn’t hate my horse. I hated the situation that we were in because of his lost eye. I…
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Looking back I’m not always proud
Looking back at some of the techniques that I used to train my horse, I’m not always proud of them. What I know for sure is that we can’t live in the past, and accepting that we can’t change it, is the first step to forgiving myself. I can learn from it and move forward. Thankfully I learned along the…
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Never too young – or old – to learn
The journey to “Oz” started on a Dusty path – Dusty the pony that is. I got my first pony – Dusty – when I was about a year old. I probably didn’t do much learning, or training at that age. But as I got just a little bit older, there was one time where a lot of learning happened…
