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Mindfully Review Your Year

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 […]

Is Comparison Stealing Your Joy?

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 […]

When Progress is Slow…

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 […]

What Happens When You Get in Touch with Me?

Have you ever wondered what you can expect when you get in touch with me at Horse Riding with Confidence Scotland ? Perhaps you’ve been thinking about getting in touch […]

How to be a responsible horse owner this autumn and winter

Thank you to Katie Allen-Clarke of Horse & Country for the following useful advice as we approach the Autumn and Winter seasons. Everything we, as horse owners, can do to […]

Why I Started Horse Riding with Confidence Scotland (and why I still love it).

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 […]

My Horsey Life (Updated)

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 […]

The Recency Effect – Use it to Enhance Your Training

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 […]

5 Ways Horse Riding can Help with a Child’s Development

In this guest article, Katie Allen-Clarke from Horse and Country shares some insight into the benefits of horse riding for children. Thanks Katie for contributing to the Horse Riding with […]

Overwhelm – Why Does it Happen?

OVERWHELM – to be flooded by intense emotion which is too challenging to manage or overcome. In this post we are looking at why you can handle a certain amount […]

Don’t Put it Off Any Longer – We Need to Talk About Procrastination

Procrastination is the act of delaying or putting off a task or a set of tasks. We may have something which, one one level we wish or know we ought […]

Back to Basics 3 – Visualisation (Seeing is Believing)

As a rider your coach may often advise you to visualise what you wish to happen perhaps riding a dressage test or rehearsing a course of jumps. This may sound […]

BACK TO BASICS 2 – RIDING IN THE MOMENT

Welcome to the second in this series of Back to Basics rider mindset and confidence skills. We can learn these useful skills at the beginning of a confidence journey but […]

Back to Basics – Confidence.

Sometimes it is useful to go right back to basics in order to ensure that you have the fundamental skills which will help you to do the things which you […]

In Praise of Hard Working Riders and All That They Achieve.

Last weekend, here in Scotland, it was Forgandenny Horse Trials. The event is only just over 30 minutes drive from me so I naturally decided to go along and to […]

Overwhelm – When Stress Gets Too Much

Overwhelm can be defined as being completely submerged by thoughts and emotions, responsibilities and experiences to the extent that day to day functioning becomes such a challenge that they become […]

Moving Through The Change House.

One of the most important parts of my work with riders is to guide and support them as they make important changes in the way that they think, feel and […]

There’s More Than One Way to Listen

I have some unexpected time today so thought I would write something. The only problem Is that i can’t think of anything to write about at the moment! Instead of […]