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24.01.2022 Lucky guinea pigs enjoyed some fresh veges picked by these lovely girls. Nu Nu’s favourite was lemon grass!

24.01.2022 I have a cancelation at 5pm today, let me know and I’ll book you in.

23.01.2022 Such patience. Teaching Kimmy the ‘tyre toss’. How did Kimmy feel about trying something new?

21.01.2022 A lovely therapy session about energy. I love how connected these two are.

21.01.2022 One of my longest best friends getting to know Kimmy.

20.01.2022 Yesterday was all about perseverance and being a strong yet kind leader. Casey really thought she was starving so we had to dig deep for patience and big reward at times.

19.01.2022 Why horses? Horses are beautiful, intelligent, sensitive and strong animals. People are often attracted to horses’ beauty and size, as a literal and symbolic re...presentation of beauty, power, expression and freedom. This can illicit or evoke strong feelings and responses and unconscious feelings and needs, then available for therapeutic attention and processing. Sometimes strong feelings like fear/panic, sadness/grief and anger/rage can become available for the first time for therapeutic processing. Calm and healthy horses can provide an emotional and sensory environment for clients that is conducive of calmness and the development of trust. Horses can offer a non-judgemental response to people and an acceptance that is different to other people, even the trained equine practitioner. Horses who are healthy seek closeness with people, triggering the client’s opening to, yearning and want for closeness, affection and connection in that safe environment. This emotional safety and trust engages the client’s brain-body responses and begins new neural pathways, felt sense and body memories for safety in relationship. Because horses can move quickly, are large and respond to their feelings and instincts, people often have a healthy respect and heightened awareness around horses, for survival and safety. This heightened awareness acts as a ’safe emergency’ for people to attend to what is actually happening, in themselves and their environment in a new way. Moving out of ‘automatic pilot’ into ‘awareness’ is the primary condition for self-awareness and change. Horses live in the present moment, in awareness and authentic contact, when living in a herd environment. These capacities are profoundly important for human health and wellness the capacity to live in the present, be aware and create and maintain healthy, honest and creative relationships. These capacities and skills can be developed in the EAP and EAL sessions via offering equine experiences and particular facilitation, and, psycho-education of ‘the way of the horse’. Horses are Prey, Play and Herd Animals. Horses are prey animals and therefore naturally have a sensitive, hyper-vigilant nature oriented around heightened awareness. They communicate predominantly non-verbally, via body expressions, energy and behaviours, and can pick up subtle changes in the horse/person/environment. Horses experience, and then respond. Due to horses being a highly perceptive species, they will react behaviourally to each client differently due to each person’s individual non-verbal communication, energy, tension, relaxation, approach, feelings, thoughts, and behaviours, as they manifest in the obvious and subtle physiological and physical responses in the person. This horse response, acts as feedback for the client and provides a rich opportunity for people to increase their self-awareness, choice and responses. People can begin to learn about developing their own body awareness, non-verbal communications, and capacity to communicate with both directness and subtlety. As Herd animals, horses are oriented towards connection and relationship, and are social animals with a particular herd structure or organisation. Because horses are oriented around connection and bonding, they can offer a unique relationship for clients to explore their experience in relationship, and explore new behaviours. Horse ‘contact’ is authentic what they experience or feel they express, and this is both great modelling for humans and an opportunity for feedback without judgement. Clients and horses can build safety, trust, relationship and intimacy that is both a corrective emotional experience and an opportunity to build relational skills and brain-body connections that may have been missing or underdeveloped. Also, horses model different forms of leadership relationships, so people can explore leading from ‘up front’, ‘shoulder to shoulder or heart to heart’ and leading ‘from behind, motivating and driving from behind’ in their parenting, work and life relationships. Horses require clear and congruent leaders, so exploring becoming the horses’ leader, can be a rich way to explore stepping into successful leadership. Horses are playful and like to explore and express their uniqueness in their environment and herd. Young horses particularly explore and express themselves with their mouths, teeth and bodies. Just as children do. This innate curiosity and playfulness means that horses often times like to engage and play with other horses and humans in EAP and EAL sessions, and offer opportunities for people to explore relationship, expression, and boundaries in a safe, engaging way. Find out more about the EPI Model at: https://www.equinepsychotherapy.net.au/epi-model/

19.01.2022 It’s Spring tomorrow. Time to take off the winter coats.

18.01.2022 So much fun digging for potatoes. The only safe way to cuddle a chick is in your pocket!

14.01.2022 Ferocious hungry mummy!

14.01.2022 Aunty Bumpsadaisy on duty.

14.01.2022 I have had a cancelation for 4pm today. Welcome to book now.

13.01.2022 Hands this dirty means they had a really good time!

13.01.2022 This beautiful girl is learning about relationships. She built up a caring, trusting and playful relationship with Kimmy over several weeks. We talk about which relationships feel like this in her life.

12.01.2022 Chevy took Kimmy on an exploring adventure. They found a lovely camping spot and imagined where the tent and chairs and fire would go. Chevy tried convincing Kimmy to climb the tree with her but kimmys boundaries showed a firm ‘NO’. I think Kimmy looks quite mystical!

11.01.2022 Thank you for taking the time to send me these lovely photos x

10.01.2022 Just relaxing after a hard day at the office

09.01.2022 Feelings are information. Feelings help us understand ourselves. Express your feelings and then let go. This projective experiment represents my clients feelings about today. We invited Tilly to meet these feelings, she bumbled though then went back to grazing. It would be nice to be a horse.

08.01.2022 Secret squirrel! For all my little boys and girls who come to visit me to collect sticks, rocks, Vegetables, bones and worms, I have a big excavator coming to push over lots of trees and ram them into a big pile. Let me know if you want to come and look at the action!

04.01.2022 This little farmer has had his eye on this tomato! Today was all about digging potatoes, eating beans and his prize tomato! Of course we visited all the animals but the vege patch was the main attraction.

03.01.2022 Ever considered therapy with a flock of chickens? (BBC London)

02.01.2022 Lovely rooster on the lookout for his girls while they ate the spoils.

02.01.2022 What does healthy habits really mean? What would a positive life look like to us? And most importantly, how do we go about achieving it in the midst of a global... pandemic? In a time when it seems like our days are filled with uncertainty, a goal list actually could be quite helpful. Goal lists can be great tools for decreasing anxiety, providing structure and giving us a record of everything we've accomplished in a day, week, or month. Research on the psychology of goal-making has revealed that an unfinished goal causes interference with other tasks you're trying to achieve. But simply making a plan to facilitate that goal, such as detailing steps on a list, can help your mind set it aside to focus on other things. "Goals are interesting as they are almost these autonomous agents that kind of live inside you and occupy space in your mind," said E.J. Masicampo, an associate professor of psychology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. "When a goal is unfinished it might be a weight on your mind in terms of anxiety or worry and it colors how you see the world, because it's sort of tugging at the sleeve of your conscious attention," Masicampo said. "It can be omnipresent whether you're aware of it or not." People with unfinished short-term goals performed poorly on unrelated reading and comprehension tasks, reported a 2011 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Masicampo and research co-author Roy Baumeister, a professor of psychology at The University of Queensland. But when the 2011 study participants were allowed to formulate specific plans for their goals before moving onto the next task, those negative effects were eliminated. "We were able to find that you don't have to finish the goal to offload it -- you really could just make a specific plan for how to attain it to get it to stop occupying that mental space," Masicampo said. In order to work effectively, your list's mini-goals also need to be well defined and have short time frames. That's because people also tend to give up in the middle of goals, according to psychologists. "We celebrate graduations at work and cheer when we finish big projects. But there is no celebration for middles. That's when we both cut corners and we lose our motivation," said Ayelet Fishbach, a professor of behavioral science and marketing at the University of Chicago who is an expert on motivation and decision-making. "We will still slack in that middle, and having long projects invites a long middle." The solution is to make the "middles" of your goals list tasks short. Goal lists also need to be flexible. If your plans change or get interrupted by an endless flurry of Zoom calls, it's important to recognize that's not the end of the world. "If we measure ourselves by how much we stick to the plan, that's not good for motivation," Fishbach said. "There's a fine line between keeping structure and keeping your goal list and also being very flexible. Because things change and they change on a daily basis." Having a productive goal list shouldn't make you feel like you can't take a break, even if you haven't crossed all those items off your list yet. According to Jordan Etkin, an associate professor of marketing at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and an expert on goals, "It's also important for people to have protective time in their lives where they're not striving towards any goal," Goal lists can be great tools to keep us going during this time of coronavirus boredom, uncertainty, and pandemic anxiety, but it's important to not fill up your leisure time with productivity. One of the most important tasks we can add to our daily list, Etkin said, is "rest." https://www.generationnext.com.au//6-ways-improve-emotion/ https://amp.cnn.com//to-do-lists-psychology-cor/index.html https://www.lifehack.org//10-simple-ways-to-find-balance-a credit to Little Truths Studio - Lori Roberts. https://littletruthsstudio.com//p/abcs-of-life-art-print-1 #neurochild #familygoals #thingswecanstilldo

01.01.2022 I met a beautiful girl today, I could listen to her imagination all day. Casey was transformed into Princess Piggy complete with plaits and sparkling nail polish. I can’t wait for her crown to be made.

01.01.2022 Sometimes beautiful long time besties have more energy than even Kimmy