Jayne is an avid writer, equestrian, riding instructor. She's thankful for all the horses she's had the opportunity to partner with throughout her lifetime so far to make her the person she is today.
"Part of playing sports is just staying in the moment. You know, we always say 'one play at a time,’” Tom Brady, Quarterback for the New England Patriots Love them or hate them, the Patriots know how to pace themselves throughout a football game. Th...
“What I do know is that if you don’t fix that one step, if you let that one step become two or three or four, there will be a moment when you are out on the trail and suddenly, when you least expect it, everything falls apart.” – Tania Kindersley, ...
“If you practiced nothing but returning to Inner and Outer Zero whenever and wherever it might be necessary, many of your problems with your horse would melt away…” – Sharon Wilsie, Author and Horse Trainer “Tara did really well!” Carly said as we f...
“Body awareness is the starting point. Without it, we literally don’t know what we’re ‘saying,’ with our disconnected appendages, nagging feet, and wandering hands.” – Anna Blake, Author and Equestrian It’s trail riding season again. Our trails circ...
“If you’re comfortable with remaining where you are and never striving to learn, grow, or take healthy risks, you’re missing out on true happiness.” - Cara Alwill Leyba, author of Like She Owns the Place Cara’s book isn’t equestrian-related but sinc...
“Our brains do three things with data: distort, delete, generalize.” - Natasha Althoff, Grand Prix Dressage Rider Well, I did it. At one point I wondered how it would be possible, but I have survived a whole year without my good old horse, dearly de...
“Sometimes it seems like your whole life revolves around doing your horses’ bidding—food service, housekeeping, valet service, maintenance.” – Julie Goodnight, clinician Mucking stalls and hauling shavings can indeed be time-consuming, so I have a f...
“It’s a beautiful thing to meet someone who makes you forget your troubles.” - Horsefeathers Therapeutic Riding Ctr, NFP Recently, I came across an article from the Cognitive Psychiatry of Chapel Hill entitled “25 Ways to Reduce Stress and Anxiety W...
“I headed out to the lower pasture, where my advisory council was grazing…” - Horse Bound by Joanne M. Friedman My own personal advisory council also prefers to graze instead of lecture, but who wants a lecture anyway? It just takes a glance mid-che...
“My favorite memory is: her second chances.” - Julia, First Grader “Look what Julia wrote!” My daughter Janette started tearing up as she showed me one of her first graders’ fill in the blanks report on how her year went. “How sweet is this! She app...
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