Those who know me know I have an eclectic mixture of skills and interests. Long before I was training clients, I was riding and training horses, which, interestingly enough, taught me many of the skills I have regarding movement and balance. I have ridden off and on as an adult and unsuccessfully tried to get my children interested in the practice, but as the individuals they are, their interests ultimately lay elsewhere.

My interest in horses ultimately led me to meet my friend Bill, who owned a large horse farm just two miles from my house. We were friends for many years until he was involved in an unfortunate accident with one of his stallions (not the stallion’s fault), which left him unable to continue caring for his horses. My friend Karina and I ended up stepping into his shoes, ultimately rehabbing and trying to find homes for all 26 horses on the farm.

My training practice for both my athletes and everyday folks has always focused more on healing and learning than anything else, and I have found that theme to be consistent in almost everything I do. The horse rescue was no different. Over the past few years, I have been writing a memoir of the rescue, and recently began recording the individual chapters as a serial podcast. I think stories can be medicine, and I learned a lot of important, and sometimes heartbreaking, lessons from both the experience of the rescue and writing about it in hindsight.

If you would like to learn more, please visit the website www.thehorsesof castlefrench.com, or you can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Audible.

I will continue to explore the common themes I’m coming to recognize in all my life’s work and hopefully turn that into something else I can share with the world.