Equimotional - Trauma-Informed Training & Resource Hub

02/09/2025

✨ Sneak Peek Time ✨

Here’s a little look inside our upcoming children’s book When Dora Met Her Feelings — due out just in time for Christmas 🎄

Meet Jitters, the wispy little pony whose nerves get the better of her (don’t we all know that feeling?) Dora will be meeting all sorts of characters like this, each one bringing a different emotion to life in a way children can understand, giggle at, and relate to.

I have poured so much love into this story — it’s gentle, funny, and just the right amount of magical. Perfect for snuggly December evenings, bedtime stories, or sharing big feelings in a way that feels safe and light.

Keep your eyes peeled for the full release date 👀

This one’s going to make the perfect stocking filler. 🎁

02/09/2025

🍂 Back-to-School Season Meets Reins & Roots 🌱🐴

September can be a whirlwind. New classrooms, new teachers, new routines — and for some young people, that shift feels heavy. That’s exactly why we designed the Reins & Roots Programme to slot in perfectly at this time of year.

Grounded in our trauma-informed, strength-based approach, these sessions offer children a place to steady themselves while everything else is changing. Horses don’t ask for grades, uniforms, or test scores — they ask for presence, trust, and connection.

Through Reins & Roots, young people rebuild confidence, practice regulation, and re-establish a sense of safety. It’s about giving them the grounding they need to not just return to school, but to actually belong there again.

If you’re a facilitator looking for meaningful back-to-school work, or a parent wanting to support your child through the shift, this programme is ready to guide the way.

✨ Because every young person deserves roots strong enough to hold them, and reins gentle enough to guide them forward.

01/09/2025

🌿✨ Thinking of joining our October Equimotional Coaches Course?

Whether you're a horse-lover, a soul-listener, or someone who's ready to do things differently in the wellbeing world — this course is for you.

We’re not pathologising.
We’re not pushing formulas.
We’re not here to “fix” anyone.
We’re here to grow bold, compassionate, grounded facilitators who want to lead from emotional intelligence, ethical horse wisdom, and real-world care.

🧠 Trauma-informed
💛 Strength-based
🐴 Equine-led
📚 Externally accredited (yes, it’s legit)
🙌 Coached by two experienced mental health professionals

🔗 Want the full info? Dive into the magic here:

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And if you're thinking, “this might be for me…”
👀 It probably is.

Come join the WhatsApp group and get to know us, ask your questions, and see if this is your herd:

👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/EBpBWXAhXQu8xMEdDaOEB5?mode=r_t

Let’s make October the month you say yes to the next chapter. 💫

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01/09/2025

✨ Keep your eyes peeled ✨

There’s a brand new resource dropping exclusively for subscribers very soon.

If you’re not in yet, it’s just 99p a month – that’s £12 for 12 brand new resources, secret posts, and early access to sales and launches.

Think of it as your insider pass to everything Equimotional.

Hit the subscribe button and join the herd 🐴💙

01/09/2025

When politicians talk about “school attendance” as a crisis, what they don’t mention speaks louder than what they do.

The message from the top is clear: parents need to “do more.” Children are “disruptive.” Families are failing. Attendance hubs and stricter behaviour measures will fix it.

But here’s the truth: absence isn’t random. Children miss school for reasons. Anxiety. Sensory overwhelm. Bullying. Chronic illness. Poverty. Trauma. Unmet needs.
And no amount of parental “doing more” will change that.

This rhetoric is dangerous. It heaps shame on families who are already fighting through a broken system. It punishes the very children who most need care. It frames neurodivergent difference as defiance and funnels vulnerable pupils towards exclusion.

The government tells us minutes of learning are being “stolen” by disruption. But learning isn’t lost when a child is dysregulated. What’s lost is the system’s ability to adapt. If classrooms were built around sensory needs, flexible pacing and emotional safety, difference would not be treated as disruption.

The real crisis is not that children are absent. It’s that the system is absent. Absent of compassion. Absent of resources. Absent of honesty.

At Equimotional we will always stand against blame-based narratives. Families are not the enemy. Children are not the problem. The problem is a system that refuses to meet needs and then punishes those who fall through the cracks.

A trauma-informed approach demands better. It says:
We recognise unmet needs.
We invest in support.
We see difference as diversity, not defiance.
We build equity instead of shame.

Anything less isn’t leadership—it’s neglect dressed up as policy.

This back-to-school season, we’re driving up attendance in schools.

Our research shows the stark reality: the first weeks of term are critical to ensuring good attendance. Missing school regularly adds up — persistently absent pupils could earn £10,000 less on average by age 28 compared to those with near-perfect attendance.

But we're already turning the tide through our Plan for Change. We've achieved 5 million more days in the classroom last year - protecting over £2 billion in pupils' future earnings.
From this term, 800 schools and 600,000 pupils will benefit from new RISE Attendance and Behaviour Hubs, sharing proven strategies from schools that have successfully improved attendance and behaviour.

Find out more about how we're improving attendance here: https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2025/08/why-school-attendance-matters-and-what-were-doing-to-improve-it/

01/09/2025

Happy 1st of September 🍂🐴

There’s something about this time of year, isn’t there? The hedgerows are heavy with berries, the ponies start growing their winter coats, and the air feels like it’s carrying a bit of change with it.

September often gets framed as a “fresh start” month. Kids head back to school, routines tighten up, and the year tips into its last quarter. But for many of the young people (and adults) we work with, this isn’t a smooth reset. Transitions can stir up anxiety, grief, and resistance.

That’s where the horses come in. They don’t care that it’s the first of the month or that the calendar’s changed. They teach us that regulation comes from connection, not from rigid timetables. A pony standing quietly at your side can remind you that safety comes from relationship, not deadlines.

So if September feels a bit much today—whether you’re starting back at school, work, or just adjusting to the shift in season—remember: you don’t need to “hit the ground running.” You just need to breathe, connect, and take the next small step.

Here’s to a month of slowing down, noticing the changes, and letting the herd remind us that presence matters more than performance.

31/08/2025

Happy Sunday 🐴✨

Sundays are basically emotional roulette:

☕ One minute you’re sipping tea like a Jane Austen extra.
🧺 Next minute you’re rage-cleaning the skirting boards.
🛏 Then suddenly horizontal, questioning every decision you’ve made since Year 9.

So… which Sunday creature are you today? 👇

1️⃣ The Domestic Goddess (house sparkling, laundry folded)
2️⃣ The Existential Philosopher (deep thoughts, zero action)
3️⃣ The Pony Gremlin (muddy boots, snacks in pocket, vaguely feral)
4️⃣ The Nostalgia Tourist (randomly stalking your own 2012 Facebook posts)
5️⃣ The “It’s Fine, Everything’s Fine” Disaster Swan (graceful chaos, vibes immaculate)

You’re in good company either way. Sundays are weird for all of us. 🤣

31/08/2025

Thinking about training with us but still sitting on the fence?
Here’s what you need to know.

Most equine training programmes talk about ethics and welfare.
We don’t just talk about it — we built an entire framework around it.

✅ The Equimotional Framework for Ethical Equine Engagement (E-FEEE) makes horse welfare and choice non-negotiable.
✅ The Equimotional Equine Well-Being Index (E-EWI) is a groundbreaking tool that tracks emotional, social, and physical welfare in every single session.
✅ Consent isn’t optional. Horses always have the right to opt out.

This is why our coaches stand apart. You won’t just leave with a certificate — you’ll leave knowing how to facilitate sessions where horses and humans both thrive.

If you’re weighing up where to train, ask yourself: do you want a programme that ticks boxes, or one that sets a new ethical standard for equine-assisted practice worldwide?

That’s the difference.
That’s Equimotional.

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31/08/2025

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30/08/2025

Today I went to my first ever Pride 🏳️‍🌈✨️

I wasn’t sure how it would feel, especially going with work rather than just for leisure. But what I found was something truly special.

The vibe, the people, the inclusivity, the love — it was electric. I felt so comfortable in my own skin, so at ease with my sexuality, and so completely welcomed.

There was something powerful about being in a space where you don’t have to explain yourself, where difference isn’t just tolerated but celebrated. It allowed me to sit so comfortably with who I am and reminded me how important it is to create spaces like that for others, too.

I left feeling seen, uplifted, and part of something bigger than myself. What an incredible day. 💜



Reading Pride

30/08/2025

7,000 of you?! That’s officially more than the number of times I’ve tripped over a wheelbarrow this year.

Honestly, I thought this page would be me, flick a couple of muddy ponies, and Jed A. Mclean hitting “like” out of pity. Instead, we’ve built this incredible community of people who get it — the mess, the magic, the emotions, and the horses who patiently put up with us all.

So cheers to you lot. Thanks for sticking around, sharing, and proving that “healing with hooves” isn’t just some fluffy slogan — it actually works.

Here’s to the next milestone… and hopefully fewer muck-heap faceplants. 🐴💛

28/08/2025

“Someone suggested to me recently that I might have traits of Bipolar"

That one sentence landed like a brick.

It was only the second time in my life I felt truly pathologised.
That my emotions and reactions — the very things that make me, me — were labelled as too extreme.

That my passion for change, my sense of justice, my anger at unfairness… could be written off as “symptoms.”

And here’s the problem:
👉 What if I wasn’t me?
👉 What if I was less curious, less questioning?
👉 What if I took that statement as gospel?

Doctor. Diagnosis. Medication.
Bending myself to fit a clinical demographic.

This is the danger of pathologising people’s behaviour.
It shrinks people down until their very human responses are seen as illness.

Not survival.
Not personality.
Not resilience.

We have to stop pathologising people’s emotions.
We have to stop turning intensity into “disorder.”
We have to stop handing out labels that can derail an entire sense of self.

Because one careless suggestion can change a life.

The end.