To bring in 2011, I am participating in the Eye Candy Blogfest in which bloggers post a favorite picture. So I am posting a shot of one my most memorable moments in 2010. For years, I’ve struggled with fear issues, especially related to horseback riding. Then, I met Laura Daley, who is a fear expert, and she helped me overcome my issues. She lives all the way across the country, but she came to help me this summer, and this is a capture from a video she took of my first fear-free canter.
I am posting it in the hopes that it will remind me to gallop joyously into the near year and to face all the new challenges it brings with a fear-free attitude.
23 thoughts on “Eye Candy Blogfest”
That’s awesome! I’d love to take lessons (I’m not afraid, just have NO idea what I’m doing).
Thanks for joining in the blogfest fun! Happy New Year!
Wow a great picture with a true meaning, priceless. Here is to your continued galloping 🙂
Jules @ Trying To Get Over The Rainbow
i love taking photos of horses, but for what ever reason they don’t like me…
great photo!
What a wonderful way to start the year! Overcoming our fears is tremendously hard work, so congrats to you! And Happy New Year. 🙂
Off to the great horizon. Anything is possible.
So nice to take a canter into the next year. I hope the year is a happy one for you.
Michael
i love your horse pictures. and the idea of reading a story about Charlotte Collins intrigues me. wasn’t this a fun blogfest?
Hey, you’re the goto exeprt. Thanks for hanging out here.
Freedom! Here’s to wishing you luck and lots of galloping!
Wonderful picture! I enjoyed the story that goes along with it. Thank you for the inspiration.
Happy New Year!
Way to go! The only way to do anything is fearlessly – after training 😉
Happy New Year.
Gorgeous picture, and congratulations on working through your fears! Here’s to a fabulous and fearless 2011 for you!
~bru
All of my major injuries (aside from broken ribs) have involved horses. I used to show jump – the timed kind 😉 When you fall 17 and 1/2 hands down, it hurts 🙂
Best of luck to you this year!
Hi,
Lovely pic of personal achievement – you’ll treasure that first moment of feeling the power beneath you and of your in control of it!
My dad loved horses, I love horses, my mum hated them: “they bite, they kick, they buck, you can have them” she used to say, yet she’d muck them out if need be and often caught pinching well-rotted manure for her roses. 😉
best
F
This picture is really wonderfully done. I like how its caught in motion.
Wow. I can see why that photo makes you smile. Congratulations on overcoming fear, and I wish you happiness in 2011.
Oh, I love the symbolism of that! Great pic!
That is a great photo and a great reason to post it! I love horses– never struggled with that particular fear but had a fear of heights. A few years back I learned to climb and now enjoy the mountaintops in ways that I never could before. Cheers for conquering our fears and continuing to doing so in the coming days!
Now that’s a meaningful photo!
What a nice picture. Overcoming fear is one of the greatest accomplishments there is. I overcame my fear of heights by skydiving. One of the best things I ever did.
Happy New Year!
Dan
Congrats on your wonderful accomplishment! Thanks for sharing the picture and story behind it.
Awesome job overcoming your fear!!! Love it! Happy New year!!
Thank you all for your kind words about my picture and my fear-free journey. I hope that you also gallop fear-free into 2011.
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