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We’ll Be Counting Stars

What’s your goal? A friend asked me this earlier this year. I think my answer was something along the lines of keep the body count at zero and don’t get arrested. The truth was it takes your friends to know you and to know when you have lost your mojo not just your car keys.ContinueContinue reading “We’ll Be Counting Stars”

When a dressage judge hits you in the feels!

Yesterday a dressage judge hit me in the feels. For once, not due to a bad score in what my friend Christa calls “the rectangle of judgement” 😂🐴 Nope instead because they saw through everything else and understood what my horse means to me. We were in a test riding clinic and did a warmContinueContinue reading “When a dressage judge hits you in the feels!”

A Day On Cheer Squad Duty

Yesterday I had the most lovely show day without even sitting on a horse! 😅🐴 Lynn bossing it with her own orange unicorn Freddie I was off being a corporate girl with work in the UK most of this last week so I opted out of competing on Saturday as I’d be too rusty. SometimesContinueContinue reading “A Day On Cheer Squad Duty”

I Don’t Have Blue Hair

Recently, I saw a video on TikTok that changed the chemistry in my brain.Given the amount of frivolous content I watch on there, mainly as a head breakfrom reality, I wasn’t expecting to have an epiphany. The video explained an experience where the user was targeted verbally by arandom person on public transport who wasContinueContinue reading “I Don’t Have Blue Hair”

BWRT & Me – I’m not changing, I’m changing back.

Once upon a time Once upon a time there was a girl who believed she could be anything and do anything she wanted. This was in spite of many of her dreams being very much out of reach. It was in spite of not having the background to make it easy. It was in spiteContinueContinue reading “BWRT & Me – I’m not changing, I’m changing back.”

Is Your Vagina Getting in the Way of your Diagnosis?

This piece is one I chose to write for Equitas. I believe its a phenomena that affects many women. When we experience symptoms that affect our ability to enjoy our sport or to have a quality of life we are often written off as emotional / over sensitive / anxious / hormonal. Often this assumptionContinueContinue reading “Is Your Vagina Getting in the Way of your Diagnosis?”

Photoshoot with Equieire

Well, Saturday was a little bit different!! My friends and I took part in an amazing photoshoot with local Irish Equestrian business Equieire I cannot WAIT to see the photos by the fabulous Caroline from Ascent Media. Sammy was in his element posing with everyone where as Oisin and I changed dressage for showjumping forContinueContinue reading “Photoshoot with Equieire”

The Rise of the Equestriennes

“The rise of the Equestriennes” #wearenotdoneyet

#iamnotdone

A wrote a post for the Grassroots gazette this week. It centered around the fact that in my opinion we have way too many melancholic posts doing the rounds on social media about being “done” and about being tired of pretending to enjoy competing. My issue was the insinuation that professional riders resent these amateursContinueContinue reading “#iamnotdone”