I grew up dreaming of horses, doodling pictures of horses and reading every horse book our local library had to offer, several times over. Once my mother agreed to weekly riding lessons, they became my obsession. I bought my first horse at age 13, and started showing hunters and jumpers shortly thereafter. I spent my teenage years at horse shows, and upon my graduation from high school, took a position as a head trainer for a small, private hunter jumper barn.

At age 28, my entire life was put on hold when I suffered a stroke. I had to give up my job at the hunter-jumper barn, as I dedicated myself full-time to my recovery. When I returned to my horse life, it became clear to me that I was going to have to learn a new (to me) way to work with horses, because I wasn’t as strong or as coordinated as I had been before the stroke. I was going to have to work WITH the horses, because I could no longer afford to work against them. That’s when I discovered classical horsemanship, and in that discovery, I reconnected with my “why”.

My “why”? I’ve always seen horses as intelligent, willing, pliable, hard working creatures. What I saw at horse shows and in horse training didn’t always align with that. What I want to do is to work with horses in a way that honors their nature as herd and prey animals, that honors their history as hardworking, human-civilization-building animals, and that taps into the spiritual and emotional connection that horses and humans can offer each other.

My passion for horses is not voluntary, it's how I'm made. My superpower is taking intangible things like ‘feel’ and other large topics in horsemanship, breaking them down into actionable parts, and putting them into words. For me, horsemanship is a practice, an art, and a very unique and personal journey.