So if you've been dealing with anxiety about horse riding for quite some time, this video
is for you.
Losing your horse riding confidence usually comes from some sort of negative experience
yourself or observing somebody else have a negative experience like a bad fall or a serious
injury.
And what you need to know is how you're feeling is completely normal.
Hi, I'm Anne Gage, The Horse Riding Confidence Coach and I help anxious horse riders just
like you get back in the saddle with confidence and enjoy every ride while creating wonderful
partnerships with their horses.
Because something else that often happens when you've lost your horse riding confidence
due to a fall or an injury is that you not only lose confidence in yourself and trust
in your own abilities you lose trust in your horse as well.
I know because I've been there.
About 12 years or so ago, I was bucked off one of my own horses.
I had bred the horse.
I had trained the horse.
He was young but he had been so easy and uncomplicated to get going.
Just a dream.
And one day, I'd just gotten on him.
We walked away from the mounting block.
I dropped my reins to the buckle to let him stretch.
Turned to say something to the person behind me and the next thing I know is my quiet,
safe horse is bucking like he was at the Calgary Stampede rodeo.
I managed to sit a few of the bucks but eventually we approached a jump standard and he moved
quickly to the right and I went to the left.
And that was that.
I hit the ground.
I wasn't injured.
But I was really shaken up.
And for some reason, I still don't understand why, I completely lost my horse riding confidence.
And no amount of "just get back on the horse" was going to get me through that.
I was shaking.
I was nervous before I got on the horse.
I couldn't even get on the horse what am I saying.
I was nervous when I was tacking up the horse.
I was nervous about thinking about riding.
And I was a horse riding coach at the time.
So I really needed to be able to get on my students' horses.
And I was training horses.
I really needed to be able to get on my clients' horses.
And I just couldn't do it.
I'd stand at the mounting block willing myself to lift up a foot and put it in the stirrup.
That's how bad my loss of confidence was.
That's how bad my anxiety was.
And I hadn't been injured.
I'd come off horses many times over the years as a rider.
So, why am I sharing this story?
So that you understand that I understand exactly how you're feeling.
Because I've been there.
And I also understand that this isn't something that you can logic yourself back into the
saddle with feeling confident.
When you've lost your confidence to that extent no amount of logic is going to work.
I know because I've tried it.
And many of the clients who have come to me for my help have tried it as well.
What does work is getting to the unconscious level.
It's at the unconscious level that we hold our memories and our beliefs.
And it's at that level that we need to initiate the change to eliminate the anxiety.
And that's what I help you do through NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming - which is
really just the language of the mind and our mind sees the world.
And hypnosis.
And hypnosis may not be what you think it is.
It's certainly not stage hypnosis.
I'm not going to make you quack like a duck or cluck like a chicken or do anything silly
like that.
With hypnosis you only go as deep as you want to go.
You're in complete control all the time.
But when you're ready really ready to make the change to get past that anxiety and fear
that's holding you back that's sucking all the joy out of your riding time then hypnosis
simply works.
Because we bypass that logic get into the area of the brain where the problem is actually
being caused.
And resolve it.
Release it.
Let it go.
So you can get back in the saddle and enjoy every ride.
If that's something that interests you then please click the link below and book in a
time for us to have a chat.
We can talk about your situation and I can explain more about how I can help you.