Eye Candy Blogfest

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

  1. 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!

  2. 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!

  3. 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

  4. 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!

  5. 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

  6. Congrats on your wonderful accomplishment! Thanks for sharing the picture and story behind it.

  7. 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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