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    • Today is the Day!

      Book officially LAUNCHED! Click on either Amazon Kindle or SmashWords link on the maevebirch.com main page. It will take you directly to the respective book sales. I hope you enjoy Standing in a Field With Horses. I will be back to my regularly scheduled blog posts after this weekend. 🙂 If you like the book…

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    • A reminder for tomorrow!

      A reminder that I’m releasing my first book, Standing in a Field With Horses, tomorrow morning, November 13th! Click on the respective buttons on the main page of the maevebirch.com website to be taken directly to the book sales. Because I’m not a well-known author by any stretch of the imagination, getting my book seen…

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    • Book Launch Sunday

      Three days to launch! Well, less if you count that it’s late afternoon on Friday where I am. I hope you’ll forgive me if I end up doing multiple posts this weekend… Is everything going to go smoothly? Yes. Am I still losing sleep over the launch of my first book? Also yes. Enjoy the…

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    • Intuition and Experience

      Intuition, or “going with your gut.” How do you view it? Is it a valuable tool used in gauging a situation? Or does it bow before the irrefutable evidence of experience? In my book, Standing in a Field With Horses, initially intuition, even messages seeming to come from the horses, were dismissed as folly. Of…

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    • Excerpt from the Chapter: Mirrors

      My barn mentor once told me, “The horse is a mirror where you can see your feelings reflected.” If you’re afraid, the horse becomes afraid. If you are calm, the horse is calmed. This is why horses are such good partners in psychiatric and behavioral therapy. They can sense emotions hidden even from the human…

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    • A Study in Horse

      When I first started working with horses I was given time limits on how long it should take me to do an activity with them. Horses were given a window on how long it should take them to respond to a request. Brushing and tacking up should take ten minutes. Three seconds tops between a…

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    • The Fear of Embarrassment

      All of us have felt the sinking feeling of embarrassment at some point in our lives. Something goes wrong and suddenly you’re wishing you were anywhere else but there. Maybe your heart was racing, you broke out in a sudden sweat, or felt numb. Maybe you got angry or struggled to hold back tears. The…

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    • Excerpt from the chapter: Ruby

      After brushing Ruby without incident, I took her out to the ring, still shaky from knowing I’d almost gotten hurt through my ignorance. Ruby was very perky, alternately sniffing the sand and snorting excitedly about the new surroundings. I elbowed her shoulder a couple of times to keep her a safe distance from me, as…

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    • Launch Date Confirmed!

      I am pleased to announce that I have a launch date for my first book, Standing in a Field With Horses. The book will be released as an eBook on both SmashWords and Amazon Kindle on November 13th, 2022. That’s only a month and a half away! Don’t forget to subscribe to my blog posts…

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    • Welcome to Maeve Birch’s Author Website

      Welcome to the author website of Maeve Birch, horse listener and avid accomplice in spreading the word about horse-led ways of being with horses. When I started this journey several years ago, I had no idea that I would be writing a book or contributing in any meaningful way to the horse world. Horses crept…

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