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A short few words from me today…. After a busy week, and a very late night, I’m not really feeling very motivated to write anything today but I can make […]

One of the aspects of my job that I enjoy most is attending various camps, clinics and workshops to talk, off horse, with riders about confidence and mindset. In these […]

My natural tendency is to be quite independent and to get on and do things on my own. I’ve had to train myself to overcome this characteristic which, I think, […]

Yesterday evening we hosted another Pre-Season Mindset boosting evening at Lindores with all ticket sales, once again, going to Rider’s Minds. We had such a nice mix of new faces […]

Congratulations to Horse Riding with Confidence Scotland (i.e. to me) on TWENTY fabulous years of working with riders, off horse, in order to help them to grow in confidence with […]

As a human being we are all hard wired with a tendency to focus on the negative. Throughout evolution, over the millennia, we have been aware of threats and dangers […]

I recently shared some ideas about how to mindfully review your year in order to best help you to learn and plan for 2024. I have carried out this exercise […]

The end of 2023 is fast approaching and Christmas will be here before we know it. This is the time of year when I see lots of riders looking for […]

There seems to be some doubt about who the quote “Comparison is the thief of joy” can be attributed to. It’s often said to be Theodore Roosevelt, but a quick […]

Here at home, this year, we have had two major projects completed and, at times, the progress on each of them was PAINFULLY slow! Project number two was finally finished […]

Horse Riding with Confidence Scotland will soon be twenty years old! What began as a vague idea that riders might appreciate what I was learning personally, has grown into something […]

I get asked fairly frequently about my own personal riding and horse owning experience so here we go. Here’s “My Horsey Life”. I first started learning to ride when we […]

Our memories are complex and fascinating with a deep knowledge of how the brain makes and stores memories being an enormous topic studied by psychologists and neuroscientists all over the […]