When I was a teenager there were a lot of things I wanted to change about myself. Twenty-some years later I look back and marvel, because so many of the things I wanted then have become reality. I mean the deeply personal things — the relationship I have with myself, with my animals, and with other people.
I’m grateful to my past self for fighting so damn hard to become me, and I also wish she hadn’t had to. I remember the many, many setbacks, the despair, and the self-loathing that stretched through years of my life. Knowing what I know now, I don’t think the process of changing had to be that painful, or that slow.
Have you ever noticed the better you come to understand how dogs actually operate, the more effectively you’re able to influence their behavior? After navigating this journey with horses and then with dogs, I finally stumbled across the equivalent for my own brain and behavior. A way of understanding myself that gave me real leverage over the way I wanted to BE.
This is what I teach in the mindset work I do. It’s about developing a powerful relationship with your own thoughts and emotions, cultivating connection with and trust in your own inner knowing, using self-directed neuroplasticity to accelerate the process of change, and having support along the way.
If there’s a mental or emotional habit negatively impacting your agility experience that you’re ready to change, I’d love to help. Maybe it’s being nervous when you walk into the ring, or frustrated when your dog does something you didn’t expect. Maybe it’s feeling anxious about choosing the right handling or training plan, or being too easily upset by another person’s comments.
I’m currently offering three sessions of targeted 1:1 coaching for $220. We’ll meet on Zoom for fifty minutes, roughly weekly over the course of a month. There will be homework and this will require effort, but it is also effective and powerful.
Interested? Email me and let’s discuss. What are you ready to change?
