My journey of transformation

In 2012 I was competing internationally as an eventer, bringing multiple horses up to Advanced/CCI3*. I loved the skill, thrill and excitement of it, and I dreamed of one day competing at 5* level.

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I would have been considered a horsewoman - I could get any horse to do anything, but what my equestrianism lacked was compassion - firstly compassion for self which also showed as compassion for my horses.

 

Small things seemed to keep holding me back. First one horse had a tendon strain. Then another had recurring mouth issues. I found myself stressed and frustrated as I chased one seemingly unrelated problem after another. I spent thousands of pounds on vet bills and treatments and lost months of competition to rehab and rest. And yet, it wasn’t helping. I loved these horses and dreamed of getting back in the saddle and yet, nothing I tried worked.

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I had these feelings that kept coming up - they were the wrong horses, I was with the wrong trainer, I was frustrated and confused that I could not 'make it' and slogged on year after year feeling helpless.

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I also found my own body was breaking down. Once I hit my 30s, I was experiencing so much pain from past trauma and injuries, I was wondering if I could even keep going with my own horses at all and ultimately in 2012 I gave up riding, sold my horses and  had an early mid life crisis.

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This was a turning point for my life - I lived for the first time untethered to animals and as much as I missed them, I had alot of fun being 'normal'. But more to the point, as my pain grew to an unbearable point and I received a diagnosis of herniated L4/5 I started to be forced to look at my life.

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I had thought it was riding that was causing me pain but I had been wrong and what I thought I was leaving behind was still with me, but worse, 5 years later so it was at this point of life I was forced to look at myself squarely int he mirror as I started to meet people with answers.

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Pedro Montoya a lovely Spanish man blew my mind right out my skull using a therapy called Proprioceptive - Deep tendon Reflex and took 100% pain to no pain at all in just over an hour. It was an incredible experience and I just thought - "I want to do that'.

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With a BSc in Sports and Exercise Science I was able to start studying P-DTR almost immediately and I struggle to even describe what it is like to be in that class watching demo after demo as they taught the syllabus of people seemingly miraculously getting better in th e space of miracles with all sorts of ailments.

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Pain, gait issues, organ issue, joint and limb movement issues - it seemed that there was nothing that P-DTR did not have an answer to! And boy, I cannot tell you how many times it has completly blown my mind, from Ancha's arm that had been paralysed for 8 months turning on within ten minutes of starting working with her, the horse who stopped napping by working on his feet and the neurological response to shoeing to my main testament for what I do - which is my own body and those of my own animals.

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After P-DTR, I was directed to a course that focused more on the emotional side of things and found this to be another thing that was life changing, and then I learned some other titbits about nerve release and torqued bones and as I found I had all this knowledge people were still not always getting better after a session, which was confusing because I was doing the same things for all of them.

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I eventually realised that I needed to change up what I did and how I did it and discovered a way to amalgamate all the amazing and unique things I had learned into 1 therapy that encompasses the best of each therapy as well as to find out what is a symptom and what is the core issue. Then to learn to do it with people remotely so I can work with anyone in the world. No small task then.

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This took a couple of years to really figure out during 2020 and 2021 and since then the majority of my work is online and I am blessed to work with people from every continent except Antartica so far!

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It is not a job, it is a delight and my delight to continue to share it with people both teaching them how to use The Shift Method themselves as well as working 121 with people and their animals.

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