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Zoë Coade

5d • 👀 Observations from the Field

🤭 Excusitis...

✨ You know something I observe a lot in the field?

People talking about what their horse can’t do more than what the horse actually needs in order to learn.

Also forgetting what they can.

“My horse could never do that.”

“He’s just too anxious.”

“She doesn’t like pressure.”

“He’s not brave enough.”

“She’s dominant.”

“He’s lazy.”

“He’s afraid of the stick.”

You'll catch me sometimes, if I dare give energy too it, perhaps standing there quietly thinking:

But how do you actually know?

Because often what I see is not a horse incapable of learning, I see a horse living inside the limits of the human’s beliefs, fears or emotions around them. Its that darn label again.

Now of course, horses are individuals. Some need slower progression, more confidence, more softness, more physical support, more understanding.

👉 But a lot of the time people accidentally slow down the bigger picture because they project their own worries limiting beliefs onto the horse instead of looking clearly at what the horse is actually capable of.

I’ve seen (and taught) horses people labelled as dangerous become soft and horses that could never be ridden again, learn liberty. Horses that hate poles, learn to jump and horses that don’t like people become deeply connected.

This is all because somebody finally stopped speaking limitation over them and started educating themselves first to they could educate the horse instead.

I think the horse world needs to watch that inner talk more carefully.

Because eventually the horse starts living inside the picture they paint of them and ALL the horses, every single one of them is just so much more than that.

❓What label do you think people place on horses too quickly?

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