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 then the way our industry is, it pressures you to just push through that and just ignore it, suppress it.

just keep going and it's like for what purpose what's what's what's the reason for this who is it for because it's not for me and it's certainly not for the horses

I think being a horse girl can be a diagnostic.

Yeah, and these conversations are so important.

So I think that's the thing is people can't trust making a decision for themselves because

they have instructors that have repeatedly taught them to deny themselves and not put themselves first because there's this idea that you need to push yourself.

You need to push the horse through things.

And it's interesting because there's parallels where it's like what we do to ourselves with emotional suppressant, not listening to what our physical body or our mental health is saying and just pushing through it.

We're also doing that to the horses.

So there's also like a mirror that can be held up with that.

And I think that something you touched on earlier with your work as an osteopath is this idea that if you continue to push through it and you're never actually addressing those things, you do pay for it later.

Also applies with horses.

Like I pushed Milo to work through lots of things and I put his nervous system through a lot with how forceful and high stress the training was.

And we're still like, I'm still paying back the debt that I took out because the toll it took on his body.

And like now that his nervous system is recalibrating and trying to heal and hit equilibrium, he's feeling better.

a lot of the things that he masked while he was in such an elevated state.

And it's interesting.

It's like, I'm also doing the same thing where it's like, I've been in such a high state of stress and anxiety and trauma for so many years that now that I'm finally dealing with it, I'm going like, I get sick more.

I have body pains.

I can feel injuries that I've probably had for a while, but that I tuned out because I was just holding so much tension.

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