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Book Updates
Read more: Book UpdatesTwo brief but important updates for the Standing in a Field With Horses book: I’m spending the rest of my afternoon decorating the house with lights and greenery. The morning was full of feeding drippy horses and scooping soggy manure in the rain. I wish it were snow instead, but we do need the moisture!…
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Today is the Day!
Read more: 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!
Read more: 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
Read more: Book Launch SundayThree 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
Read more: Intuition and ExperienceIntuition, 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
Read more: Excerpt from the Chapter: MirrorsMy 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
Read more: A Study in HorseWhen 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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