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Confidence, competition nerves, consistency, and staying patient with progress.

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“I lose confidence.”
“I overthink my riding.”
“I get nervous competing.”
“I feel frustrated by slow progress.”
“I struggle to stay consistent.”

Confidence often improves when riders understand what is happening and have a clear path forward. Progress is not about being perfect — it is about building trust, clarity, and consistency over time.

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The Body Changes Slower Than You Want… And Faster Than You Think

A few months ago I found myself wondering if anything was actually changing.

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The Day I Noticed The Trees

A few weeks ago I was walking around our property and noticed something strange.

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The Problem With Chasing The Perfect Position

There is a phrase riders hear from the very beginning.

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How to Get Started with Strength Training (Even If You're a Total Beginner)

Let’s be honest — starting strength training can feel intimidating.

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Dressage Riding Through Menopause: How to Stay Strong and Ride with Confidence

Work with your body through menopause and keep building strength, balance, and connection in the saddle Let’s talk about how menopause can affect your riding — and more importantly

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Feel like your dressage riding is rubbish right now?

Feel like you are just stuck in a rut and can't improve.

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Mastering Your Inner Game

I have recently just finished listening to the book 'Mastering your inner game of tennis" which I highly recommend!

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The Natural Decline

One of my most motivating factors in training and sharing the DRT program with you is to help you do more of what you love for as long as you choose.

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The Messy Middle

I love the little lessons I learned in developing our property and how relatable it is to riding.

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Being Realistic With Your Results

Impatience is a habit, and so is patience.

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A Focused And Engaged Mind

Dressage mindset, learn how to get a more focused and engaged mind to help you improve your overall rider mindset.

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Earning Your Confidence

Improving your confidence as a dressage rider comes down to your ability to prepare.

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Commitment to the process

It's not about the results you're achieving it's about the commitment to the process, it's about the person you are becoming through the process.

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Keep Your Bucket Full

Energy is the currency of life and we all know the impact our energy levels have on our lives and our riding.

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Think You Can't?

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." – Henry Ford Your mind is Google Maps for your life.

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What To Do When Your Having A Really Bad Day

Keep an energy audit is something that is incredibly powerful.

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What You Should Focus On

Whether it's just everyday life our more focused on your riding.

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Our Opportunity Is Coming Back...

Times have been challenging around the globe with COVID 19 panadamic.

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Competition Mindset Meditation Series

Here is a series of Competition Mindset meditations.

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Your Mind Is Your Secret Weapon

We can enter a competition and worry about whose in our class, what the judges will give us, where we will place, what our horses will do.

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How To Create Calmness In Any Situation

"Negative emotions are just signals, they're just triggers, they're letting you know that you are now focused on something outside your control." In order to be able to create more

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10 Principles Of Mindset

I believe the better we are as a person, the better an athlete we can become.

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Dressage Competition Nerves And How To Perform At Your Best

In this article, I go into detail about competition nerves, what I try to do and give you some tools to try out for your next dressage competition.

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The Difference Between Growth And Standstill

The next year is going to go by whether you do something or you don’t do anything.

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Do You Live In A Fantasy?

The person you will become in 5 years time largely depends on these few factors......

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The Power Of Tiny Gains

Ever heard the saying, be 1% better each day?

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Changing Habits And Mastering Routine

You may have heard that your morning routine can set the tone for your day and that your morning routine is something you should pay attention to.

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How You Can Do Anything By Changing Your Mindset

I often get asked questions about running our business and it usually goes along the lines of “What was the hardest part about starting”.

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Why Living In Your Comfort Zone Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Potential

Many of us, including me, have established a comfort zone in our lives, we have a routine and a structure that we find easy to maintain.

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Make Mistakes, It Makes You Better

"The peroson who doesn't makes mistakes is unlikely to make anything" You probably have noticed that the spelling in quote is incorrect.

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What Is Standing In Your Way?

Sometimes we can get stuck on the treadmill of life and start to observe others lives as better than ours or we compare other situations to our own with the grass is greener mental

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Stop Caring What Others Think

The world of dressage and horses in general, has a lot of people with opinions and strong ones!

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Simple Reminders To Achieve A Successful Rider Mindset

Everything in riding can be changed with the right mindset and one of the first places, to begin with, is to understand that our emotions affect our rides.

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It's Not About Perfection

I have always disliked the word perfection for many reasons.

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What Story Do You Tell Yourself?

Everything is a story we tell ourselves, we have an inner dialogue that is either positively wired or negatively wired.

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Become Immune To Negativity

I want to paint a picture for you. Bear with me as I do, as I hope it will help give you a better understanding of how you can achieve your goals.

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Setting Goals To Help You Develop Into A Better Rider

I’m a big believer that you can achieve anything you want from life if you have focus and work hard.

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Dealing With Judgement

As we trot down the center line we are paying someone to judge us.

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Creating Your Own Successes

Competitions are a great place to measure our training progress.

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How To Avoid Quitting

No one likes quitting or giving up on their goals and dreams in life, but so often I see people just settling and not willing to step outside their comfort zone.

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Adjusting Your Goal Posts To Suit You

As a rider its important that we set goals, but equally important is that those goals are realistic and appropriate to you as a rider and most importantly appropriate to your horse

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Learning How To Get More Energy

We live in a fast passed modern world with a mentality that it's all about work hard or go home and that hustle is required if you are to get anywhere.

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How To Build Your Rider Confidence

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A Celebration To The Equestrian Community

Recently I have come to really appreciate and value the tight connection that runs through the horse community.

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Embracing Incompetence In Your Dressage Riding

Dressage is a challenging sport. While an elite dressage rider may make riding look effortless, you can be rest assured they too have been through struggles to get to there.

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What’s Your Learning Style and Why It’s Important For Dressage Riders

The last time you probably thought about learning styles was when you had your head in books and studying madly for an upcoming exam.

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How To Improve Your Energy So You Can Ride More

We could all use a little more energy. Whether it’s energy to get up in the morning and start the day or another burst of energy in the afternoon to keep us going.

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Dealing With Stress To Improve Your Riding

Whether you’re an elite dressage rider or someone hopping on a horse for the first time, we all experience stress.

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How Visualization Can Help Your Dressage

Multi tasking and doing lots of things at once is essentially being distracted and often the more we multi task the less we can get done and often the poorer quality.

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