Shelby Dennis

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575 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4 Jun

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Making Milestones · Rethinking Horse and Human Wellness: A Compassionate Approach ft. Alexa Linton · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

But like you said, with the grittiness aspect, I think that that's something that it's a source of pride.

It's kind of the same idea as when people are really proud about what they can ride through.

They'll get on these horses that absolutely are not ready to be ridden and are freaking out.

And they'll be like, look at what I can do.

I can stay on.

I can ride through it.

And

It's impressive in the sense that it's like, yeah, it does take skill to stay on a horse that is freaking out.

And it's something that I used to take a lot of pride in because I have a good seat.

I've ridden difficult horses and I could stay on, but it's like at what cost?

Because the cost of my body that I'm now paying at 30 years old really wasn't worth looking cool on a bucking horse.

And also it's a whole lot cooler to train in a way where you're not getting horses riled up to that point.

the first place but it's not really valued in our industry where people don't really think it's cool to have the quiet horse because when they see you working with horses quietly there's this mindset that it's like oh you just have an easy horse you've never dealt with a rank horse and it's like i'm just not i'm making the express choice to not make this horse look rank because i'm moving at a pace that is actually safe and healthy for the horse

And in turn, it's been safer for me.

Like I haven't had a fall or a massively dangerous situation in years now, since I shifted into using more rewards-based training and training through the mindset of viewing behavior as communication, because you don't want to escalate things to such an extent before you see any real change.

And it took a while for that to click for me, but it really doesn't.

If your goal is to have a horse that's well-behaved and is not bucking, bolting, rearing, etc.,

It really doesn't make any sense to first escalate those behaviors before you see improvement.

And yet that is like the industry norm, basically.

we're taught that like fear is a weakness and then also if you ever do push back against trainers where you're like hey actually i'm not comfortable with this you're often met with like a lot of pushback where they're like you need to ride through it like get over it like be brave push through it and it's about like suppressing those aspects of yourself um which i find really interesting because i do think that like a lot of the training procedures and like equipment that we see

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