#familygoals

by | Sep 17, 2019 | Horses and Life

The last blog I shared the importance of quality of connection in marriage and I brought up the topic of vision. So, why is vision so darn important to the family? Not only do we find the Proverb verse that says “without vision the people perish” but the...

Imperfect Families – A Practice in Connection

by | Sep 8, 2019 | Horses and Life

I was recently reading a wonderful article about how a young boy who had been bullied was working with a horse and the horse kept nipping at him. The author was a horse person and she spoke of how she would cringe when she would witness this. She desperately wanted to...

Life is a Dressage Test

by | Jun 24, 2019 | Horses and Life

Something my riding instructor used to coach me away from before competition was practicing the dressage test in sequential order.  She would tell me that it would not benefit my horse and I because my horse would come to anticipate the dressage test, and not...

The Story We Tell Ourselves

by | Jun 4, 2019 | Horses and Life

In her new Netflix special, Brené Brown shares a story about a fight that she and her husband had when they were on a family vacation.  The conversation was around two insecurities that each of them had and it led to a misunderstanding between the two of...

Daring Greatly

by | May 27, 2019 | Horses and Life

Teddy Roosevelt once said “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and...