October 23, 2022

I am Vickie.  I am a certified Life Coach and a certified Equine Assisted Coach.  What is that?!  I facilitate experiences, both with and without the horses, resulting in a deeper self awareness.

Coaching is radically collaborative. It happens in the conversations and relationships you develop while uncovering what you want. I am trained and practiced at helping you discover your amazing abilities, be it confidence, compassion, or courage. When defining what you want in your career, relationships, family, or self – you must answer for yourself.

I promise a Journey Within.

The subtle difference between a life coach and a counselor/therapist is the analogy of the physical therapist vs a personal trainer. If you are injured and need to heal you would go to a physical therapist. If you are looking to to get stronger from this point forward you would seek a personal trainer. There will be times that you may injure yourself when working with the personal trainer so you would go back to the physical therapist. This happens when I am coaching someone. We become aware of a past experience that has not been healed so it is time to find a counselor or therapist and when the hurt has been healed the coaching can continue. I believe in therapy, and I think it has its place, especially in healing the past. Being flexible to the specialists of coaching and therapy can help you move forward quickly.

Who are “the boys”?  Why, our horses of course.  Teddy, Smokey, Popcorn and Dusty.

Smokey had laminitis last year.  His blood sugar spiked.  It was heart wrenching.  When their blood sugar spikes the circulation to their hooves slows or stops and there is a bone in their hoof that starts to rotate causing great pain.  Horses spend a majority of their life standing on their feet.  Horses are herd animals so we choose to keep our boys together.  The way we choose to regulate their sugar (recommended by our vet) is to limit their time out on pasture to 6 hours a day.  The best time of day is between 3 am and 10 am.  Grass has sugar.  When the sun hits it the sugar rises to the top to help the grass grow taller.  At night the sugar goes to the roots to help the roots grow deeper.  Who know that I would ever need to know this information?!  Well,  3am to 10am just doesn’t work for the humans so one of us gets up at midnight to open the gates.  We feed between 6 and 7 and close the gates leaving the horses in quite a large paddock.  It has been working well.  This year we had a very cold spell.  Like most of the country.  So, we starting letting the horses out longer than 6 hours a day.  The vet recommended we let them our an extra 6 hours for a week (it takes 3 weeks to transition to pasture 24/7).  Then yesterday we had 75F.  We err on the side of caution so the boys are let out around 9pm and back in around 7.  We watch for signs and I am honing my intuitive skills to decide when to let the boys out on pasture.  I will check with our vet about soil temperature.  Every day is different.  Their are always things to do and we love it here.  On our 18 acres with pasture, woods, a pond and several out buildings.  We hope you have a wonderful week!