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Trauma-informed equine support for SEND, neurodiversity and emotional regulation. Im passionate about helping others achieve their dream!

CPD training + business mentoring for equine professionals who want to grow impactful and sustainable businesses.

28/12/2025

✨ Something new is coming in 2026… ✨

We’re excited to offer an Introduction to Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL) through Somatics — a gentle, insightful way to explore how horses can guide us in understanding our bodies, emotions, and patterns.

This is for anyone curious about EFL, somatic awareness, and how the horse becomes a calm, honest companion in your learning. 🌿
Stay tuned for dates and details — a chance to step into the world of EFL and Somatic Experiencing with heart, presence, and connection.

Keep your eyes peeled if your interested in a unique angle on getting into EFL world
This workshop will be for people who are interested in becoming a facilitator in the world of EFL but just starting out.

28/12/2025

Somatic Experiencing with Equine-Facilitated Learning

Somatic Experiencing isn’t about talking your way through healing.
It’s about listening to the body.

Equine-facilitated learning offers a living, breathing partner in that process.

Horses are exquisitely attuned to nervous systems.
They notice subtle shifts — a held breath, a tightening chest, a softening spine — long before words arrive.

When we bring Somatic Experiencing into EFL, the work slows down.
We track sensation.
We notice impulses.
We allow small movements toward safety and regulation.

The horse doesn’t ask you to explain your past.
They respond to what’s happening now.

In this work, healing doesn’t come from pushing through discomfort.
It comes from titration — small, manageable moments of connection and choice.
From learning when to approach… and when to pause.

Somatic Experiencing with EFL is not about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about restoring trust in the body’s intelligence —
with the horse as a calm, honest mirror.

This is nervous system work in relationship.
Quiet. Respectful. Deeply alive.

27/12/2025

The Year of the Horse — and The Way of the Horse

In many traditions, the Year of the Horse is about movement, freedom, truth, and momentum.
Not the rushed kind.
The honest kind.

But long before calendars named it, horses were already living this way.

The Way of the Horse isn’t about charging ahead or proving strength.
It’s about listening first.
Feeling what’s happening in the body.
Responding only when the moment is right.

Horses move when it makes sense to move.
They pause when something needs noticing.
They don’t override their instincts to please, perform, or push through.

And maybe that’s what this season invites us into too.

Less forcing.
Less pretending we’re fine when we’re not.
More honesty with ourselves about what feels right — and what doesn’t.

The Year of the Horse reminds us that freedom isn’t found in speed or achievement.
It’s found in alignment with our own rhythm.
In trusting when to step forward… and when to stand still.

This is the Way of the Horse.
And it’s available to us every day, if we’re willing to slow down enough to learn it. 🖤

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26/12/2025

“The Way of the Horse”

The way of the horse is simple:
Notice. Feel. Respond. Be here.
No judgment. No rush. No pretending.

In their presence, we find a rhythm we forgot we had.
A freedom we didn’t know we were craving.

A belonging that has nothing to do with distance travelled or lessons learned.

It’s in the stillness.
In the pause between steps.
In the gaze that says: I see you. I hear you. You are enough.

This is the magic of the horse.
Not in riding. Not in doing.
But in being. 🖤

26/12/2025

Horses don’t ask for much.

They ask only that we show up—fully present, fully ourselves.
When we do, they teach us to slow down.
To notice the spaces between our thoughts.
To feel the rhythm of life through every breath and step.

They remind us that connection isn’t earned.
It’s offered.
It’s silent.
It’s wild.
It’s patient.

A horse isn’t just an animal.
It’s a teacher, a mirror, a companion for the heart.

And when we listen, really listen…
We remember what it feels like to belong. 🖤

26/12/2025

A horse is never just a picture.

It’s a memory etched into the paths we’ve walked together.
It’s the quiet of the forest that held space when the world was too loud.

The rhythm of hooves that matched a heart that couldn’t sit still.
A sunset where freedom and peace learned to coexist.
In their silhouette lives the wind, the road behind us, and the dream that kept pulling us forward.

In the reflection of still water, past and future pause—just long enough to breathe together.
A human and a horse.

Two souls moving in the same direction, even when everything else goes silent.

This isn’t about riding.
It’s about belonging.
A connection that needs no words.
Inner freedom that cannot be taken—only felt.
A journey that starts not on the trail, but deep in the heart. 🖤

25/12/2025

Today I’m grateful for a quieter kind of richness.

For muddy boots and cold hands.
For beings who don’t need words.
For a life shaped by care, responsibility, and connection.

Christmas doesn’t need to be big to be meaningful.
It just needs to be honest.
And this life — with them — always is 🤍🐎

25/12/2025

Some life experiences our soul is waiting for don’t disappear just because they don’t arrive when we expect them.
They wait.
For a long time, I believed that if something didn’t work out when I wanted it to, it was gone for good.
A missed chance.
A closed door.
A quiet no I was meant to accept and move past.
The horses taught me something different.
What’s meant for me doesn’t rush.
It doesn’t arrive because I sit and meditate or try to manifest it into being.
It doesn’t demand.
It circles back — when my hands are steadier, when my body is calmer, when my nervous system can actually receive it.
If something is meant for me, it comes when I’m ready — not before.
I’ve watched people give up on dreams because they don’t happen now.
Life has taught me that time isn’t as linear as we’re taught to believe.
Things arrive when the door is finally unlocked.
Opportunities come gently — often only after I’ve stopped chasing and started listening.
Timing, I’ve learned, isn’t a test of worth or effort.
It’s a conversation with life.
And sometimes the thing we’re waiting for doesn’t arrive until we stay consistent, keep showing up, and refuse to give up on what matters.

25/12/2025

This is what family looks like to me….. Horses have been in my life for over 25 years as an adult ….

Checking everyone is warm. Filling hay nets as the light fades. Soft nickers in the dark.
A familiar breath against my shoulder.
Horses aren’t a hobby here.
They’re not a lifestyle choice or something I “do.”

Something Ive always done and something I bought after years of being alone at Christmas. After years of my ex husband falling asleep on Christmas day, I thought I would buy a horse so that me and the children could have a ‘purpose’ that was ours on Christmas.
We have ridden out on Christmas day, loved every minute of spending christmas with them when everyone else is asleep after too much alcohol and too much food.

They are family.
Soul mates.
Home. Everything I have ever known about Christmas and I could never not imagine Christmas with out them
Christmas Eve isn’t always about where you go or what table you sit at.

Sometimes it’s about who you choose to care for — again and again — quietly, faithfully, with love.
Today and every day, I cherish this life.

And these beings who have shaped my heart more than words can say 🤍🐎
Who else has a similar story? Horses and animals played a bigger part than humans?

25/12/2025

Christmas Day (Quiet & Real)

Christmas Day doesn’t always look loud here.
There’s no rush to perform joy.
There’s warmth to check.
Hay to fill.

A soft breath in the cold air.
The horses don’t ask for anything festive.
They ask for presence.
And somehow, that steadies everything.

If today feels slower, quieter, or different — let it be.
This kind of Christmas counts too 🤍🐎

24/12/2025

Well… this happened. What a great Christmas Present!

A few weeks ago we reached 10,000 here, which already felt quietly unbelievable.
Then a couple of posts took on a life of their own and travelled far beyond this little corner.
And this week, one post alone brought nearly 700 new people with it.

We’re now heading towards 11,500 — and honestly, I’m still a bit shocked.
We sat at 7,000 for what seems like ages but now look at our new followers!

What matters most to me isn’t the number, but who is gathering here.
This feels like the beginnings of a new community — people drawn to horses, nervous system wisdom, honesty, and a slower, truer way of being and what its like to own and live on a small holding in Lincolnshire .

So if you’re new here — welcome 🤍
You’re very much invited to settle in, take your time, and be exactly as you are.

And to those who’ve been here a while — thank you for staying, sharing, and helping shape this space so gently.

It feels like something meaningful is building.
And I’m really grateful you’re part of it 🐎✨

24/12/2025

Horses aren’t a hobby.

They’re a way of living.
They shape our days, our choices, our priorities.
They decide when we wake, when we rest, when we slow down.
They are there in the ordinary moments —
mud on boots, hay in pockets, quiet mornings, tired evenings.

And in the extraordinary ones too —
the moments that hold us together when life feels fragile.
They aren’t something we fit in.
They are the framework.
They are family.
Not in a sentimental way —
but in the way that family sees all of you.

Your patience and your frustration.
Your joy and your exhaustion.
Your strength and the days you’re running on empty.
They meet us exactly as we are.
They don’t ask us to be polished or productive or “better.”
They ask us to be present.
Honest.
Steady.

Some people call them animals.
But anyone who’s lived this life knows better.
They are companions.
Teachers.
Anchors.
Soul mates in a form that asks us to listen differently.

They carry us through seasons of becoming.
Through grief.
Through rebuilding.
Through learning who we are when things fall away.

And today — like every day —
we cherish them.
Not because it’s special or symbolic,
but because this life is built around them.
Horses aren’t part of our world.
They are our world.

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