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. 🅢🅞🅤🅛🅕🅘🅔 How do you see yourself? It was long after I was first paid for my photographs or had them published in a book that I simply answered, ‘Yes’ when asked if I was a #photographer. It made me curious. Why couldn’t I accept that label? I had #selfdoubt and wondered if my work was good enough? I judged myself an amateur and someone who was just dabbling as photography is not my full-time job or professional. I compared myself to ‘real photographers’ like @paulnicklen whom I admired and found myself lacking. The problem, I discovered, was that taking pictures is one of my favorite ways to express myself. I was making a tiny little box for myself with all these conditions and labels I put on something that fundamentally just gave me joy. The tiny little box was too small and too confined for my #wholeself So here’s a self-portrait, a #soulfie , taken of me and by me in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. I was on a #visionquest to witness and photograph wild mustangs in the Black Hills. I’ll never forget the vastness of that landscape. I’ll never forget the 900 miles I drove across the endless prairie with myself and my dreams for company. This picture reminds me that there’s a place for me just as I am in that vastness and that no labels or boxes are required. How do you see yourself? Is there a box you can climb out of and see the grand magnificence of you? If you’re keen to explore your own self-expression through photography, my brilliant friend and equine photographer @astridharrissonphotography will be back in UAE soon with another Equine Photography workshop on the calendar. DM for details #expressyourself #liveauthentic #permission #ownit #fullyalive #comparisonisthethiefofjoy #compareanddespair #dontcompare #selfexpression #selfcare #selflove #beyourself #equuscoaching #lifecoach #tip #equinephotography #equuscoach #selfportrait #picoftheday #soulportrait #Nationalpark #badlands . 🅕🅘🅝🅓🅘🅝🅖 🅕🅐🅘🅣🅗 Sometimes #equuscoaching can be intimate and deeply personal. It’s possible to feel exposed and raw, with all your vulnerabilities out for anyone to see. This was such a moment. As I was photographing this workshop I felt the flood of deep intimacy come into the round pen. As the client laid their heart bare my camera felt intrusive and I put it down. I took a deep breath all the way down into my belly to help me feel and process the emotions that were present. I softened my eye gaze, witnessing but not staring. It was in that moment I noticed the horses head collar hanging from the gate. My gaze sharpened and focused. As the client asked, “How can I trust myself? The process? My partner? Even life itself?” I could see this one word in clear focus. Faith was the name of the horse you see. This was her name tag suspended on her collar, whispering to me the answer. And so I watched a horse named faith teach a human about trust and I decided this was the picture that would always hold that lesson. Thomas Aquinas once said, “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” 🐎 🍀 #faith #trust #trustyourself#everydaymystic #storybehindthesnap #wonder #naturewhispers #natureswisdom #mysteryoflife #trueleadership #liveauthentic #horsesofinstagram . 🅦🅗🅐🅣 🅘🅢 🅛🅞🅥🅔? To me it’s that action of reaching out to a moment of connection. It’s an interaction with the pure magic and mystery of all that is around us. It’s a union of things which appear separate and a recognition that it’s impossible to be separate or alone. I invite you to look up, look around, and pay attention today; feel for all the love reaching towards you. Beautiful image 📸 by @tara.hamilton.photography as I shared a moment of connection with #desertamira #onelove #connection #TRUElove #mystery #magic #grace #mysteryoflife #natureswisdom #equuscoaching . 🅟🅡🅘🅞🅡🅘🅣🅨 Lately I’ve been hearing people talk about self-care as if it’s an indulgence or a ‘nice-to-have’ In our lives. PSA of the day: The impact of not prioritizing self-care is not neutral. You can see physiological differences in your nervous system and many key body functions quickly. As a coach, I observe that a common challenge that derails many clients’ good intentions for self care is the thought that there’s not enough time for it. So here’s a #lifecoach tip for today. Self care comes in all sizes; there’s the 10 day vacay AND a 10 hour digital detox AND a 10 minute meditation AND a 10 second mindful breath. There’s even a moment’s thought of gratitude. Most of us know the super-sized end of the self care spectrum but how many of us have truly explored the teeny-tiny type. I’m talking about the in-the-moment actions that don’t require you to go anywhere or buy anything and yet they still have the capacity to change the trajectory of your day, your mood and your health. So today I challenge you to fill the comments with your favorite right-sized self care! Extra credit if you actually DO IT and even share your tip in your story today! #smallselfcare Self care is healthcare sweet peeps! We need you strong and shining in this world 👊🏼 xoxo #psa #rant #selfcare #priorities #selfcareishealthcare #tip #wellness #youmatter #performance #coach . 🅒🅞🅜🅔 🅣🅞🅖🅔🅣🅗🅔🅡 I love how these two images perfectly visualize the lesson on #communication, #connection, #unity that this horse had to offer this group of women. In one image you can see discussion, debate, hesitation and questions. As the horse holds up a mirror to this moment can you see in him that he is confused, on alert and unsure? In the next image you can see that the group decides “whatever we do, we will do it together”. As the horse offers a mirror to this moment you can see how attractive #clarity is. You could say it’s magnetic! You can see the horse reflecting, “where are you going?”, “That looks interesting!”, “Can I come?” . Just like our wild kin on this planet, we humans are safer and stronger together. So today I invite you to #cometogether and see where you end up! 🐎🍀 #equuscoaching #community #culture #teambuilding #lessonsfromhorses #horsehumanconnection #horsesofinstagram #trueleadership . 🅦🅗🅔🅡🅔 🅓🅞 🅨🅞🅤 🅕🅘🅝🅓 🅢🅤🅟🅟🅞🅡🅣? This little foal, just a few days old, seemed a bit overwhelmed with the world and all its stimuli. So gently, but firmly he pressed his head up against his mother’s heart, reconnecting to the rhythm he had known for 11 months on the inside. Eventually he will come to know nature’s rhythm, which is of course on the outside and equally inside of each one of us. This got me thinking today, where do I find support? Inside? Outside? Perhaps both? I remembered a corporate #equuscoaching event where the nametags I offered everyone said “my name is ... and today I feel ... ”. That day I wrote, “My name is KELLY and today I feel SUPPORTED”. I was so grateful for my team and everyone standing with me to make this event happen, I felt like everybody had my back. The CEO who hired me said, “Don’t you mean supportive? It’s your job to support us today.” Fascinating! It was exactly because I felt SUPPORTED myself that I was available to be SUPPORTIVE. So how am I feeling supported today? •most definitely by friends who have encouraged and invited me to do yoga on the beach, come out for dinner and try an aikido class to name a few joyful things this week. •most definitely by my practices (5Rhythms, sit spot) which keep me feeling solid and embodied in my inner world Tell me about you? Where do you find support? 🍀 #grateful #support #naturesrhythm #wisdomofnature #innerworld #friendship #weareallinthistogether #horsesofinstagram #foal #lessonsfromnature . 🅢🅠🅤🅔🅔🅔🅔🅔🅔!!! It’s not just baby horses running around this January... meet a fresh little Arabian Sand Gazelle I dedicate this picture to all the new mamas, with four legs and two. Tag your own favorite new mama if you like! Fun fact: 1 January is the universal birthday for horses in the Northern Hemisphere so studs aim to have foals in January. The herds of horses and herds of gazelle all hang out together! #naturesrhythm #newlife #birth #foals #horsesofinstagram #motherhood #equuscoaching . 🅕🅘🅝🅓🅘🅝🅖 🅜🅨 🅟🅐🅣🅗 In 2009 I lost my job. It had been coming a while, we were the 4th round of layoffs and it was not only me, more than 100 were impacted that day. I called a friend, told her what had happened and she said “you’ve been unhappy for months, forget your crappy job and come to Africa with me!” I said no. No to spending money on the day I lost my job. No to a frivolous trip when I needed to figure out what to do. Little did I know: ...more money than expected would materialize in my redundancy package. ...another person would get DVT so she couldn’t fly and the sold out trip had one free place at the last minute ...a South African documentary filmmaker would sit next to me in a restaurant and make me WANT to visit this place in the most visceral way. Suddenly all my no’s were used up. Every resistance I put up seemed to blow away like a feather. Alright already I’ll go to Africa... 5 days later I was there. Embraced by Mother Nature and her whole family of magical creatures. I was home. On that trip, I met the horse whisperer who would become my mentor, teacher and sister. My Mama Africa adopted me. A leopard and some playful monkeys invited me into the oneness of all living things. #ubuntu So much magic in my life and my business was born in Africa. I can feel her calling. It’s time to go back. You can come with if you’d like. 🦁🐆🦏🐘🐃 🇿🇦 #idreamofafrica #lifeiscalling #findingmypath #innertracking #guidance #oneness #magic #growth #equuscoaching . 🅘 🅚🅝🅞🅦 🅐 🅟🅛🅐🅒🅔... beyond words beyond gender beyond age beyond job titles and nationality and religion, A place where you can be fully yourself, where you are fascinating and free. Would you like to visit with my horses and me? Booking Private Equus sessions now in this glorious weather! #equuscoaching #growth #freedom #personaldevelopment #mydubai #liveauthentic #horsesofinstagram #trueleadership Beautiful 📸 @tara.hamilton.photography . 🅘🅝🅝🅔🅡 🅣🅡🅐🅒🅚🅘🅝🅖 It begins with wonder, as most things do... Where did this print? This unfamiliar rock? This pile of feathers? come from? What happened here? In the outer world the clues come in 3 dimensions and may be obvious or subtle. But what about the inner world? How do you find what you’re looking for in life? You have a dream. You have a goal. How do you get there? How do you find the way? If only there were tracks in the sand, pointing you in the right direction. If only it were as easy to be explorers in our inner world as in the outer world. Well I have a little #lifecoach #tip for you today. The more you practice the art of tracking in the outer world, the easier it becomes to follow the trail of what’s happening in your inner world. Wake up your senses Wake up your awareness Wake up your instincts Listen for the clues Listen to your curiosity Listen to the call of life within you and without Feel yourself become fully, tinglingly alive! I have a retreat coming up where you can get out into the wilderness to learn and practice tracking. Watch this space or DM me for details if you just can’t wait! #innerworld #tracking #spirittracker #natureswisdom #soulwork #retreat #explore #listenbeyondwords #adventure #natureisspeaking #naturebasedcoaching . 🅕🅤🅣🅤🅡🅔 🅖🅔🅝🅔🅡🅐🅣🅘🅞🅝🅢 We use lots of different language to describe how humans begin to interact with horses: We ‘break’ a horse for riding. We ‘gentle’ wild horses. We ‘start’ young horses. These are just words. The actual process depends on the human who comes forward to build relationship with our four-legged partners. How do we, the human partner, learn empathy, learn to notice and pay attention to the wellbeing of the horses. How do we ‘start’ our kids to make them good partners? 🐎 My first event of 2019 was a bookend to my last event of 2018. Taking groups of kids into the world of horses and having a look around. We talked about how to build a connection, how to meet a horse on the ground and what some of the possible futures are for those relationships (riding, jumping, endurance). Just like the horses, some of the kids were excited and some afraid. Some noticed the finer details right down to the warm curious breath from the horses nose and twitchy whiskers, others just wanted to sit on the horse. Some loved the compact little Arabians, the horses of their homeland, that can run like the wind for hundreds of kilometers across the desert. Still others loved the powerful, towering Warmbloods who can jump fences with ease and grace. Others still best loved the miniature Falabella because it was exactly the same size as them! It’s an honor and a responsibility to be invited to be a Guide for future generations whether they have two legs or four. I’m grateful to my team and my gentle equine partners for sharing this responsibility with me. #futuregenerations #empathy #relationship #listenbeyondwords #natureisspeaking #animalwelfare #equuscoaching . 🅣🅞🅛🅔🅡🅐🅝🅒🅔 Do you choose a word for the year? In #uae this year has been designated as the #yearoftolerance and it’s interesting to observe the power of intention at both an individual and a collective level. Just as the power of prayer is amplified when we raise our voices together, let’s see how the power of intention is amplified over this coming year. You can begin by asking yourself: What does tolerance mean to me? What situations in my life invite me to be more tolerant? I’m interested to hear your perspective! Please share with me in the comments and let’s be in community together! 🧿 #wordoftheyear #intention #community #collective #collectiveconsciousness #powerofintention #inabudhabi #mydubai
. 🅘🅝🅢🅣🅐-🅟🅤🅩🅩🅛🅔 Part 9 of 9 This holiday weekend, get outside and enjoy the fresh air with a friend. 😘🍀🐎🇦🇪 K #equuscoach #sentience #liveauthentic #natureisspeaking #connection #mydubai #authenticself . 🅘🅝🅢🅣🅐-🅟🅤🅩🅩🅛🅔 Part 8 of 9 This holiday weekend, get outside and enjoy the fresh air with a friend. 😘🍀🐎🇦🇪 K #equuscoach #sentience #liveauthentic #natureisspeaking #connection #mydubai #authenticself . 🅘🅝🅢🅣🅐-🅟🅤🅩🅩🅛🅔 Part 7 of 9 This holiday weekend, get outside and enjoy the fresh air with a friend. 😘🍀🐎🇦🇪 K #equuscoach #sentience #liveauthentic #natureisspeaking #connection #mydubai #authenticself . 🅘🅝🅢🅣🅐-🅟🅤🅩🅩🅛🅔 Part 6 of 9 This holiday weekend, get outside and enjoy the fresh air with a friend. 😘🍀🐎🇦🇪 K #equuscoach #sentience #liveauthentic #natureisspeaking #connection #mydubai . 🅘🅝🅢🅣🅐-🅟🅤🅩🅩🅛🅔 Part 5 of 9 This holiday weekend, get outside and enjoy the fresh air with a friend. 😘🍀🐎🇦🇪 K #equuscoach #sentience #liveauthentic #natureisspeaking #connection #mydubai . 🅘🅝🅢🅣🅐-🅟🅤🅩🅩🅛🅔 Part 4 of 9 This holiday weekend, get outside and enjoy the fresh air with a friend. 😘🍀🐎🇦🇪 K #equuscoach #sentience #liveauthentic #natureisspeaking #connection #mydubai