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01/03/2026

Hello March. 🌿

It’s not summer.
But it’s not February.

We’ll take it. ☀️🐴

01/03/2026

HAPPY SUNDAY BUT MOREEEEEEE IMPORTANTLY ..... DRUM ROLL PLEASE HAPPY 1ST OF MARCH YOU ABSOLUTE FERAL EQUIMOTIONAL YARD GOBLINS 🌞🐴

We have survived.

We have crawled, emotionally damp and sh*t-scented, out of the swamp that was January and February.

And today… the sun is OUT.

Actual sunshine. Not that pale “is it or is it not?” nonsense. Proper, squinting, take-your-coat-off, vitamin D straight to the soul sunshine.

Both of mine are naked.
No rugs.
None.

I stood there this morning, stared at the sky and said, “No. It’s spring. I refuse to participate in winter any longer.” I REFUSE I TELL YOU.

Is it 6 degrees? Possibly.
Is there still mud that could swallow a welly whole? Absolutely.
Do I care? Not even slightly. I AM DONE.

Because March 1st is not just a date.
It’s a declaration. 🚫

It’s the moment we collectively decide:

🌱 The head torch will be retired.
🌱 The rugs will be launched dramatically into the tack room.
🌱 The moulting will begin (may God have mercy on our dark clothing).
🌱 The feral goblin energy shifts from “seasonal depression” to “chaotic optimism.”

You can feel it, can’t you?

The horses are brighter.
The yard chatter is lighter.
We’re already planning things like summer shows and BBQs like we didn’t spend last week googling “can horses live underwater?.”

So congratulations. Genuinely.

You kept them fed.
You kept them dry-ish.
You kept turning up when it was horizontal rain and financial stress and emotional exhaustion.

And now?

Now we stand in the yard, blinking into the sunlight like victorious swamp creatures, and we say:

We made it.

Happy 1st of March, you mud-splattered legends. 🌞💛

Drop below if your rugs are off!!!!

28/02/2026

We need to talk about this. 👀🐴

“Horse women don’t enable each other.
We just turn bad decisions into a group project.”

Tell me that isn’t painfully accurate.

Nobody in the history of the equestrian world has ever made a sensible or not sensible choice alone. We assemble a committee. A chaotic, mud-covered, emotionally invested committee.

“I’m just going to look at him.”

And suddenly there are six of us refreshing the advert, analysing conformation like forensic scientists, zooming in on hoof angles, convincing you that the slight toe-in is “actually quite common and easily managed.”

You say, “He’s sharp.”

We say, “He’s sensitive.”

You say, “He’s green.”

We say, “He’s trainable.”

You say, “I cannot afford this.”

We say, “Money is temporary. Horses are forever.”

This is not enabling. This is collaborative delusion with excellent snacks ( mainly tack room tea and cake ) 🧁

Underneath the jokes, there’s something deeper going on. Horse women are not reckless. We are relational. We process big decisions in community. We seek validation because we know horses are not handbags. They are responsibility, risk, welfare, identity, grief, hope, and a frightening monthly feed bill.

So when someone is about to make a questionable life choice involving 500kg of grass-powered liability, the herd gathers.

Sometimes we hype. Sometimes we justify. Sometimes we absolutely do romanticise chaos. ✨️🙈

But sometimes we also hold the line.

Sometimes the group project becomes: “Walk away.” “You look exhausted.” “This one isn’t right.” “You deserve better than this.”

And that matters.

Because in the horse world, the stakes are high. Financial pressure is real. Burnout is real. Comparison is relentless. You can scroll for five minutes and convince yourself everyone else is winning championships while you are just trying to get through winter without losing your mind.

So yes. We laugh about turning bad decisions into a group project.

But let’s be honest.

We also turn heartbreak into a group project. We turn livery stress into a group project. We turn loan dramas, vet bills, confidence crises and imposter syndrome into a group project.

We rally. We analyse. We debrief. We send voice notes that are 11 minutes long.

There is power in that. ❤️✨️

The trick is knowing when the herd energy is supportive and when it is steering someone off a cliff because it makes a better story.

Community should steady you, not tip you.

So here’s a question for you lot 🐎

What was your most chaotic “group project” decision? Buying the horse? Moving yards? Entering the class you swore you weren’t ready for? Breeding the mare because “she’d make a lovely mum”?

And… did it work out?

Let’s be honest. Let’s be funny. Let’s also be grown-ups about it.

Because we can laugh at ourselves and still protect each other.

That’s the real magic. 🖤✨

Thanks for the quote : The Cinchy Cowgirl 📸

28/02/2026

Looking a bit more pregnant 🤰 now 🐴.
70 days left till due date 📅 🤗

28/02/2026

The Equimotional Herd Hangout Resource Pack is a super popular option — and it’s yours for just £49.99

Whether you’ve run a hundred pony sessions or you’re about to try your very first summer club, this pack is your new best friend. We’ve done the planning, the prepping, the panicking… so you don’t have to.

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✔️ Detailed day plans for each theme – from "Meet the Herd" to the “Great Grazing Celebration”
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You don’t need to be a therapist. You just need to care.
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Tag a fellow facilitator who’d love this. Questions welcome in the comments — or message us any time 💌

28/02/2026

Compassion fatigue doesn’t just look like crying in your car.
It’s sneakier than that.

Sometimes it looks like:

– Feeling numb in sessions
– Scrolling instead of sleeping
– Resenting the work you used to love

It doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong.
It means you’ve been doing it too much —
alone, depleted, caffeinated, and hanging on by a hay net.

You deserve what you offer your clients:
🫶 Space.
🫶 Support.
🫶 Slowness.

Because you're not just a facilitator — you're a human.
A nervous system. A body. A being.
And you're allowed to be cared for, too.

Drop a 🧡 if you’re committing to one micro-rest this weekend.
(Tea with the horses totally counts.)

28/02/2026

Maybe the horses don’t make us calm.
Maybe they just make everything else look ridiculous.

Because honestly?
A horse doesn’t care about your emails.
Your tax return.
Your to-do list.
Your filtered personality.

They don’t want your goals or your grind.
They want presence. A scratch in the right place.
A bit of hay. The real you.

And when you spend time with something that ancient, that honest,
society starts to look… unhinged.
Like… why do we do half the things we do?

Why do we sit under fluorescent lights clicking buttons all day,
when a pony can nap in a sunbeam and still get more done?

Maybe you’re not “lost.”
Maybe the world is just very, very loud.

Let the horses remind you what actually matters this weekend.

27/02/2026

🐴✨ 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 ✨🐴

Right then, Equimotional Army — it’s that time again! Let’s get the newsfeeds buzzing with amazing equine and wellbeing accounts 🐎💬

Drop your page, business, or favourite small account in the comments below 👇
Tag any friends 🧡
Then go on a little scroll — like, comment, follow, and share the love.

We’ve built this community on collaboration, not competition. There’s room for all of us in the field (even the ones who pull faces at feeding time). 💛

Tag a friend who runs a page that deserves more eyes on their work — equine wellbeing, youth work, creative therapy, coaching, anything that makes the world a bit kinder and calmer.

Let’s see how many new faces we can connect with across the weekend

26/02/2026

💛 IF YOU CAN DONATE OR SHARE, PLEASE DO 🙏 LINK BELOW 💛

https://gofund.me/747d08901

I’ve set up this GoFundMe for someone truly special, and she has no idea I’m doing this. I want to surprise her with support that actually makes a difference.

This is for Georgie — the illustrator behind so much of the art you love from Equimotional. She’s the one who brings Dora and the Feelings Herd to life with gentle detail and a lot of heart.

But right now, she’s working on a laptop that’s literally falling apart. It overheats, it shuts down mid-drawing, and it crashes in the middle of projects. For someone whose whole work depends on digital art, that’s not just frustrating — it stops her from doing the thing she’s brilliant at.

What most people don’t know is that the conditions where she lives in South Africa are tough in ways that go far beyond one device. There are economic pressures, power challenges, and everyday stressors that make creative work harder than it should be and also just general wellbeing.

But she keeps going anyway.

She is talented, kind, generous, and completely committed to her craft. The world hasn’t always given her smooth roads, but she creates beautiful things despite that.

So here’s what we’re doing: we’re raising funds to get her a new laptop , tablet and work station set-up so she can work without battling her equipment every day. So she can feel supported. So her art can keep flowing. So she doesn’t have to pause every time her machine crashes.

If you can donate anything at all, that’s amazing. If you can share this post, that’s just as powerful.
Even £5 or a share means her story gets seen. ❤️

Here’s the link again:

👉 https://gofund.me/747d08901

Thank you for being part of this community and for helping support the people who make it special. 🐴✨

If you’ve ever smiled at an Equimotional illustration… If Dora has ever made yo… Charlotte Vicary needs your support for Help Us Upgrade Georgie’s Laptop

25/02/2026

🚨 GIVEAWAY TIME 🚨
And this one is actually GOOD. 👏🐴

You could win:
✨ TWO trial bags of Tash’s Signature Blends PMS and Best Behaviour.
✨ A copy of Stable Minds, Steady Hearts

All you need to do:
👉 Like Tash’s Signature Blends page
👉 Share this post
👉 Tag a friend

That’s it. Simple.

Now let me tell you why I agreed to this collab…

All three blends are built on the same core base:
🌿 Chicory root
🌼 Chamomile
🍃 Lemon balm

The thinking behind it is solid. Support the gut. Support the nervous system. Support the inside first. Because behaviour usually reflects how a horse feels.

Here’s what’s inside:

🐴 Trainer’s Secret – Original
A daily foundational blend for horses who are a bit on edge, inconsistent or just not fully settled. It focuses on digestion and emotional balance so they can actually feel comfortable in themselves.

🧠 Best Behaviour
Same core blend plus vervain. Designed to support calm focus and stress regulation. Great for the tense, reactive, overwhelmed types who struggle to switch off.

🌸 Pretty Mare Syndrome
Core blend plus raspberry leaf to support hormonal balance and comfort. For the sensitive, unsettled mares where cycles clearly play a part.

What I like is that this isn’t about dulling them down.
It’s about regulation. Comfort. Balance.

And the book Stable Minds, Steady Hearts fits beautifully alongside it. It blends practical horsemanship with emotional awareness. Calm rider. Clearer communication. Stronger partnership. No nonsense.

If you’re someone who believes behaviour starts from the inside out, this one’s worth entering.

Go like, go share, and let’s see who wins 🐴✨

Website here:
https://www.signatureblends-equinesupplements.com/ #/

25/02/2026

Live Unboxing For Signature Blends ✨️

25/02/2026

HAPPY NEIGHKED DAY, UK EQUESTRIANS 🐴🌤️

Seventeen degrees.
SEVENTEEN.

For approximately six glorious hours we all believed in spring again. Rugs off. Tails swishing. Ponies blinking into the light ✨️

Fields looking slightly drier. Humans in T-shirts. WhatsApp yard chats absolutely feral with:

“Mine’s naked.”
“Mine too.”
“Do we dare?”
“Is it safe?”

We all stood there holding folded rugs like we’d just committed a minor crime against the Met Office. 😆

And the horses… the AUDACITY.

Rolling.
Prancing.
Suddenly athletic
Throwing shapes of pure JOY 😊.

For one golden afternoon we forgot about mud fever, frozen taps and head torch season. We said, “This is it. We’ve turned a corner.” 🌞

Which obviously means it will now snow by Thursday.

But listen. Today was sacred. Today was Neighked Day.
The annual British equestrian ritual of:

Rug off.
Hope high.
Weather app checked every 12 minutes.

If you’ve got a muddy, smug, slightly feral horse right now… congratulations. We made it to False Spring. 🐎✨

Long may the rugs stay folded.
Until tomorrow. 😆

Thanks for the pun Jackie Archer 🙏🙏✨️