It’s not all fight or flight for riders! Drop the stress response!
It’s not all fight or flight….. Stress sharpens our instinctual response to danger. Whilst our stress response is geared to saving our lives, it isn’t meant to be switched […]
It’s not all fight or flight….. Stress sharpens our instinctual response to danger. Whilst our stress response is geared to saving our lives, it isn’t meant to be switched […]
We know that a quality sleep is vitally important and yet we often forget that it is not only restorative, but helps us to problem-solve better, think more rationally, memorise […]
Whatever, the doubt, no matter how long you have felt this way, doubts are simply beliefs that we only think are true. They don’t have the same resonance as the […]
It’s the ultimate form of learned helplessness, the scientific name is thanatosis. People call this ‘playing possum’ too, because opossums do it (they enter into a catatonic state that resembles […]
I had a call with Sarah (not her real name), who was suffering from anxiety, anger, frustration and most of all, shame. A shame that reached back into her childhood […]
Anxiety is a warning from your unconscious mind that you’re focusing on the things you don’t want to have happen. Often, you’re running a programme in your head where worse […]
As an equestrian business delivering lessons, how can the business continue during uncertain times and lockdown? What about times when the weather is atrocious? Horse or rider have been through […]
‘Mental toughness’ is often confused with someone who pushes themselves to extremes, for example, someone who breaks a bone and carries on with the competition. That’s not what’s meant here. […]
Optimism is part of mental toughness and the latter is much-misunderstood term. Mental toughness is the outcome, the attribute that you enables you to feel that you can overcome any […]
Affirmations appeal very much to one type of learning/memorising style. That is, those people who are auditory digital and that’s only about 10% of the population. These people learn best […]
In the 2020s, we try to multitask. Our phones and devices tempt us unwittingly to have a messenger conversation, take a look at our Facebook notifications, listen to some music, […]
Here are some common ways that riders encounter mental health issues and how to reduce them. 1. They seek perfection. In a competitive environment, results can mean everything. Perfection […]
