Month: April 2023

  • How to put off getting back on a horse

    How to put off getting back on a horse

    I could do a solid hundred pages on how I put off getting back to riding again, because I have a fertile brain and I put it to good use finding excuse after excuse after excuse for why I wasn’t riding again. I knew the real reason I didn’t was because I was scared stiff,…

  • Facing the fear: coming back to riding

    Facing the fear: coming back to riding

    I started riding when I was about seven. I’d been horse mad ever since I realised what a horse was, and one day Mum took me and my sister up to a local stable. Would we, she asked, like to have riding lessons. Would we! I loved it from the very first lesson. I was…