Mental Training

Emotional Awareness in Riding: Understanding the Emotional Horse

Many of us are out here riding the emotional waves of our equine counterparts — cough, mares, cough — and it feels like the waves just keep crashing down on us. This article will provide some emotional awareness tips to help you navigate these dragons!

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Losing and Gaining Confidence: Having Unrealistic Expectations for Our Riding Level

“We’ve all been taught to reach for the stars and to keep trying when we fail. However, that sometimes puts us in a place where we expect too much of ourselves and our equine partners. We focus on the end goal instead of where we are in the present moment.” (more…)

Best of EN: Sports Psychology with Dr. Darby Bonomi: Frustration — A Guide Out of the Cloud

“Frustration. It’s a cloud of dark energy that hovers over us. Under it, we feel stuck and irritated, unable to see our way out of a situation.” Sport and Performance Psychologist Dr. Darby Bonomi helps us find a way out from under the cloud.

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