Tips for Nervous Horse Riders: Managing Anxiety with Sensory Strategies
Understanding how we process sensory information can significantly influence how we experience nerves, anxiety, and fear when riding our horse. We use our ‘internal representational systems’, which refer to the primary ways we perceive and internalise our experiences...
What’s Stopping You from Being a Confident Rider
Imagine you're about to ride your horse, and your heart's racing, your breathing is shallow, and your legs are like jelly. Despite knowing that you’ve done all this before, all the countless hours of schooling and lessons, a nagging voice in your head whispers, "What...
Exercise to relax a tense horse with your seat
Riding a tense horse isn’t always fun, and it can feel frustrating and challenging for the rider. There are so many ways to relax a tense horse, and in this article, I want to share a really simple and effective way to help the horse relax and move through his (or...
Transform your Fear of Failure into Riding Confidence
Transform your Fear of Failure into Riding Confidence Are you struggling with becoming a confident rider due to the fear of failure? You're not alone! Many riders experience rider anxiety at some point in their equestrian journey, which can manifest in various ways....
Horse Rider Confidence Coaching – 1-1 Coaching vs. Membership
Owning and riding horses is an amazing, hugely exhilarating rollercoaster ride, but it can also be a challenge for riders struggling with confidence issues. Confidence is a crucial component for success and enjoyment in horse riding, and many riders seek out coaching...
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Riding: A Mindset Shift
Do you find yourself struggling with confidence and battling negative thoughts while riding your horse? If so, know that it's not uncommon. However, the good news is that you can change your horse riding mindset and transform your experience in the saddle. In this...
5 Reasons horse riders are so hard on themselves
So many riders struggle with being their own worst critic, finding that they beat themselves up for mistakes, or for ‘not being good enough’ (whatever that means!). It can have a massive impact on rider confidence, motivation and ultimately enjoyment in riding. For a...
Unlock your riding confidence: How to focus on what you want
Reasons riders get stuck with a lack of confidence So often we get stuck in a negative head space and we find that we can only see the mistakes, the issues, and the moments that may have not gone to plan or not gone as we had hoped. And the thing is that our mind will...
Riding with Confidence: Overcome Competition Nerves and Anxiety
Competition nerves Anxiety is an entirely normal human response to a potential threat and is an integral part of the ‘fight or flight’ response. These instinctive, rapid and very real physical and psychological responses have served us well throughout evolution, and...
Mental Preparation for Horse Riders
What is 'mental preparation'? Mental preparation can help any rider, regardless of the discipline or level of experience, to reduce stress and anxiety, manage emotions and thought processes, and improve confidence when riding. There is a range of psychological...
Hypnotherapy for Horse Riders
What is Hypnotherapy? Hypnosis is simply a form of deep relaxation. When our minds and bodies relax, the conscious mind, the analytical mind is distracted and we can gain direct access to the unconscious mind. Communication with the unconscious works best in the...
Rider Confidence: A simple way to make the changes you want
In this article, I’m going to share one of the simplest and effective tools that you can use to shift your mindset, to start building your riding confidence on positive beliefs and positive evidence, and I think you'll love it! So the concept, the idea, the task that...