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11/11/2025

🐴 Drop a photo of your horse’s most unflattering moment.

We’re normalising imperfection today — for horses and humans.

Because behind every glossy photoshoot, there’s a muddy roll, a half-chewed rug, or a mid-yawn face that looks like something from a horror film.

Let’s fill this thread with real life:
The drool, the derps, the mud moustaches, the moments that remind us we don’t have to look perfect to be loved.

Drop your funniest, weirdest, or most chaotic horse photos below 👇
Bonus points if there’s a human photobomb looking equally unhinged.

11/11/2025

10/11/2025

🏫🐴 Calling All Riding Schools & Equestrian Centres!

Have you ever wished your young riders could go beyond the saddle—to learn not just how to ride, but how to truly understand the horse, themselves, and the connection between the two?

That’s exactly what the Equimotional Young Equestrians Academy offers.

Our six ready-to-teach modules are now available for riding schools and education providers who want to add a wellbeing-focused, educational strand to their programmes.

Each module includes 30–40 beautifully designed A4 pages packed with:
📘 Horse care, behaviour, genetics, and wellbeing
🧠 Emotional literacy and reflection activities
🎨 Creative exercises and comprehension tasks
🌿 Curriculum-aligned learning (Key Stages 1–3)
💬 Trauma-informed and strength-based approach

Whether you run pony club sessions, home education days, or equine wellbeing groups, these modules blend science, empathy, and horsemanship in a way that children absolutely love.

💡 Schools and riding centres can deliver the Academy independently or with full Equimotional support and training.

If your riding school would like to implement the Young Equestrians Academy or become an Equimotional Approved Centre, send us a message or email equimotionalcoaches@hotmail.com to find out more.

Let’s build the next generation of thoughtful, emotionally intelligent young equestrians together. 🐎✨

Purchase HERE : www.equimotional.com/shop

10/11/2025

10/11/2025

🖼️ Weathering Life’s Storms: It’s Okay to Seek Shelter 🌩️

Just like Dora the pony tucking herself away during a thunderstorm, we all have times when life feels a bit too loud, too heavy, or too much. Seeking shelter isn’t weakness — it’s wisdom. Resting, retreating, and finding calm are natural parts of being human.

At Equimotional, we don’t label anxiety or stress as something “wrong.” We see them as messages from the body — gentle signals that it’s time to slow down, breathe, and take care of ourselves.

✨ Ways to Weather the Storm:

Seek Shelter: Step back when you need to. Safety and calm are foundations for growth.
Rest Deeply: Pause, recharge, and give your nervous system the kindness it deserves.
Reach Out: Connection regulates. Talk, share, or simply sit with someone you trust.
Re-emerge Slowly: When the clouds clear, return in your own time — not before you’re ready.

Your emotional wellbeing matters just as much as anyone else’s. Our equine wellbeing coaching helps both facilitators and clients understand, reflect, and reconnect — always in partnership with our horses, and always with care.

Discover how to become an accredited Equimotional Coach or explore our programmes at www.equimotional.com.

Let’s stop pathologising our natural responses and start honouring them. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is rest. 🌈💪

Happy Monday — take it gently.

09/11/2025

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂?

Is Sunday the day you set aside to rest & recoup your energy for the week ahead?

Or

Do you get all "those" jobs done that have piled up during the week ?

Remember that pile of washing can probably wait, so can that dusting or hoovering....don't overwhelm yourself with tasks that you find stressful because it's "the start of a new week".

Time is just a concept ✨️ Take a breather , have a nap , watch a movie - go for a walk , whatever it is that's self care to you , dont forget to allow yourself some of that lushness 😘

Repeat after me......

Resting is not a reward
Do not feel guilty for doing it 🙏

09/11/2025

Who is with me? ✨🎄

09/11/2025

I’ve seen a few posts doing the rounds lately, criticising “gentle parenting.”

Now I always feel like a little bit of an imposter , not having kids myself when I talk on a subject like this but......

Usually they go something like:

“The world won’t care about your child’s feelings.”
or
“Teachers can’t spend 45 minutes validating emotions.”

But that’s not gentle parenting.
That’s permissive parenting — and they’re not the same thing.

Gentle parenting isn’t about saying yes to everything or avoiding discipline.
It’s about holding boundaries without shame or fear.

It’s saying, “I can see you’re angry, but I won’t let you hit,” rather than “Stop that or you’ll be punished.”
It’s still structure, still rules — just taught through respect, not intimidation.

Permissive parenting says, “I don’t want to upset you, so I’ll drop the boundary.”
Gentle parenting says, “I love you enough to hold the boundary, even if it upsets you right now.”

Compassion doesn’t mean there are no consequences.
It means the consequence is about learning, not humiliation.

And when kids grow up in that kind of environment — where emotions are accepted and limits are clear — they actually cope better in the real world.
Because they’ve learnt to regulate, not repress.
They’ve learnt that love can still mean no.

You can be soft and still strong.
Kind and still consistent.
That’s the balance — and it’s not weakness.
It’s the hardest, most important kind of strength.

09/11/2025

Oh. This explains a lot. 🫠

09/11/2025

🕯️Burning the candle at both ends (and somehow in the middle too)

Do you ever get that feeling like you’re completely burnt out… then you write down what you actually do in a day and it doesn’t even look that bad on paper?

That’s been me lately.
I’ve got flexible working hours, three horses, a master’s degree ticking away in the background, my business to run… and somehow it still feels like I’m constantly burning through the wick.

Maybe that’s the thing though.
“Burning the candle at both ends” doesn’t always mean you’re flat out busy—it can mean you’re always on.
Always thinking, juggling, feeling guilty for resting, comparing yourself to people who seem to fit more in.

I think we forget how heavy the mental load gets when your brain never clocks off, even if your day technically ends at 5.

So here’s to everyone who feels like they’re burning the candle at both ends (and in the middle) without a clear reason why.
You’re not lazy. You’re just carrying things that don’t show up on a to-do list.

💬 How does your version of “burning the candle at both ends” look?

09/11/2025

🐴✨ SHAKING OFF THE SPOOK ✨🐴

Ever watched a horse spook, snort, and then shake it all out before going back to grazing?

That’s regulation in action — their nervous system saying, “I’m safe again.”

Humans forget to do that part.
We hold it in.
We tense, apologise, keep it polite, stay “professional.”
Meanwhile, our body never gets the message that the danger’s over.

So today’s challenge:

Shake like a pony who’s just had a good spook.
Loosen your shoulders. Wiggle your fingers. Bounce your knees.
Let your body do what it’s built to do — complete the stress cycle.

Because regulation isn’t always stillness.
Sometimes it’s a good shake, a deep sigh, and a reminder that you made it through.

🧠💛