by Amy | Feb 20, 2019 | Case Study, Personal Growth
It rained all week. My boots sank in the flooded arena. The horses snorted in the puddles. Pine needles swept off the trees by the wind covered the ground. The barn floors wet from the rain blowing in. The horses’ coats thick with mud. But Saturday morning, as if by...
by Amy | Dec 10, 2018 | Case Study, Personal Growth
It was a crisp and clear Fall afternoon. The kind where you’d remove your jacket and bask in the warm sun only to put it on moments later as a cloud floats by. The kind where you’re grateful for the gray knitted fingerless gloves that you got for Christmas a few years...
by Amy | Oct 29, 2018 | Case Study, Coaching, Personal Growth
After a traumatic divorce and cross country move with my children seven years ago, I’ve been on a conscious journey to find my center again. I thought I’d done most of the work I needed to do. I’d left my job, my home, my religion, my friends, my closest family and...
by Amy | Oct 25, 2018 | Case Study, Personal Growth
When I woke up on September 27, I had no intention of watching the Kavanaugh hearing. I just didn’t think my heart could take it. But I logged on to Facebook and there she was. Christine Blasey Ford. When she spoke, she was pleasing, kind, apologetic, and terrified...
by Amy | Oct 13, 2018 | Personal Growth
How many hours a day are you behind a screen? Reacting. How many hours a day do we practice reacting? A like, a heart, an angry face, a thumbs up. A note of love and support. A note of correction. A note of opinion. A note of self-righteous belief. A message. A...
by Amy | Sep 18, 2018 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Growth
I didn’t know what to expect when I visited Wisdom Ridge Ranch. I had very little experience with horses in my life. I remember two or three times as a child when I was lifted onto a pony’s back for a turn around a ring at a fair or a brief plodding trail ride...
by Amy | May 3, 2018 | Coaching, Personal Growth
I see how you stay in bed longer than you “should” because it’s the only place that feels safe. I see you making deals with yourself to extend your time in the nest by checking your iPhone. Starting your day behind a screen. I see how you rush the morning, wishing for...
by Amy | Apr 3, 2018 | Coaching
You know that feeling. The “to do” list is enormous. It swirls around in your head. Probably swirling so much that you’re fuzzy-brained, not knowing exactly what to do next. Your short-term memory goes. You end up doing double the work because you’ve gone back...
by Amy | Mar 3, 2018 | Coaching, Personal Growth
I have not one, but two (actually, technically, I have three but that’s another story) storage units. One of them I’ve had for almost 8 years. Here’s what’s in them…a bunch of shit that I don’t want to deal with. It occurred to me that we...
by Amy | Feb 3, 2018 | Coaching, Personal Growth
I don’t think my mom stopped calling me selfish until the Alzheimer’s set in and by then I was in my late 40’s. As a young girl, I was selfish when I wanted something we didn’t have, like a new toy or candy. As a teenager, I was selfish when I wanted to spend all of...
