Jade Monahan Equine Therapist

25/02/2026

What a Beautiful day 🌞 Searc was actually naked over night as it was so mild!
Sacrifice paddock is well and truly sacrificed 🤣😂 making use of the abundance of seed i have on the floor of the hay barn 🤗

03/02/2026

Looks like a fun game... Wonder who's winning 🤔

29/12/2025

Having horses when you’re neurodivergent is basically running a a very high budget wellbeing retreat for yourself without realising it. 🐴🧠

You thought you were buying a horse.
What you actually bought was an external hard drive for your nervous system.

• Routine?
People love to say horses thrive on routine.
Mine thrive on ✨vibes✨.
I turn up at wildly inconsistent times like a feral yard goblin and they’re like,
“Ah yes. This version of you again.” ⏰🧌 We LOVE it.

• Executive dysfunction?
You can ignore emails for weeks.
You will not ignore a horse staring at you like you personally ruined their day because you gave them 3 carrots and they know the 4th is in your pocket. 👁️🌾

• Sensory overload?
Phone = too loud.
People = too loud.
Horse chewing hay = perfect.
Brain finally stops buffering. 📵🌾

• Social energy at zero?
Great. Horses do not do small talk. Ideal.
They will stand with you in silence and call it quality time. 🤝

• Hyperfocus?
You only meant to “quickly check” them for the 4th time today.
It’s now dark, you’re covered in mud, and you’ve started a deep emotional audit of saddle pads and long lost bags of miscellaneous items. 🔦🫠

• Emotional regulation?
Horses sense your internal chaos before you’ve even parked the car.
They don’t judge it.
They just quietly refuse to cooperate until you stop spiralling. Iconic behaviour. 👑

• Masking?
Doesn’t work.
Horse sees straight through it like,
“Please stop pretending you’re fine. I can smell the cortisol.” 👃😐

They don’t care if your life is messy.
They don’t care if you’re late.
They don’t care if you haven’t replied to anyone in your WhatsApp for three days.

They care that you show up.
That you’re kind.
That the hay eventually appears. 🌾💛

It’s not structure.
It’s connection.
And somehow that’s exactly what our brains needed all along.

25/12/2025

Me, Rioja, Searc and Harley dog would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 🎅🎄

10/11/2025

How crazy that ive started taking bookings for 2026.... where did 2025 go? Blinked and ive missed it!!!

08/11/2025

Wondered why Teddy was obsessed with my pocket, I had forgotten I was playing about with essential oils with Searc the day before! Searc didn't want any but safe to say Teddy loved this one! 😆👅🌷🌿

07/11/2025

23/10/2025

Not the morning off I expected! Tree down, smashed the fence and across both tracks (it was a sycamore 🥳)
Rioja and Searc don't seem too bothered 😊 💣

06/10/2025

2 weeks have flown by.
A 🐴 update is well overdue!
We have had a name change, Rodney didnt suit him.
His new name is Searc. In Irish it means Love or Beloved one. It's pronounced Shark which is what his stable name in Malta was!
He's slowly putting on weight and getting stronger in the hind end.
I've done nothing more but let him be a horse. He's on the track at night and in the paddock during the day.
He was a little nervous to begin with but he's really coming out of his shell now ❤️ he's like a little puppy following me everywhere and he's extremely affectionate and huggable!!!💕
He has the dentist coming on Saturday and then I might start introducing him to some bodywork.
😊😊😊

05/10/2025

All else fails I could be a rug repairer 🤣🤣🤣

Seriously though, has anyone got any tips for me, the new boy keeps getting his leg stuck on the second strap of every rug... bored with repairing now... apart from just removing the second strap from every rug (which ive done now on the no fill) what else can I do??

26/09/2025

If you haven't noticed (from previous posts) ive got myself a new horse 🥰
Cutty Sark AKA Rodney ex trotter racer from Malta. He was at the rescue in Malta for 3 months before I adopted him. He had a week long journey to get to the UK and now he's been with me 4 days.

Other than being underweight and lacking top line muscles and weak behind i don't know alot about him.
This is where iridology comes in handy. A quick look at his eyes and I have a starting point. Liver and kidney herbs and craniosacral therapy 🤗

24/09/2025

Had a beautiful craniosacral session with Mari this morning. It took a few minutes to get her permission to begin. I stood quietly by the door until she was ready.
I'm normally very chatty while I work but I got a firm "silence" from Mari!
Mari is normally quite stressy in her stable and she's been tetchy about being touched which is down to hormonal imbalances so it was lovely that she allowed me to work and she fully relaxed which her owner doesn't often see.
As I was working around the head Mari let out a very soft wicker, I believe/felt she was letting go of some past trauma in that moment.
As I stepped back, disconnecting, I got goose bumps all over, I know the session meant a lot to her. I left her processing, lip drooping and soft eyed. 🩷

No pictures as usual. We were all just in the moment 🤍