Restore Equine

08/19/2025

well was all about the STORMS today ⛈️

crazy drive there, crazy while there, 15mins round the corner in Waller for barn 2, BRIGHT SUNSHINE! Back home tonight for more storms 😆

Just been that kind of day 😅

08/16/2025

Dodging storms and meeting new horses on this

Congrats to Catherine Arndt on her new mare!

And making new friends at 🦄🩷

08/14/2025

with my second batch of this week 😍

these guys really do deserve every minute of their bodywork sessions, they give so much in their work 🦄🩷

08/14/2025

08/14/2025

this

It's never about a modality its how the individual applies it!!

Sniping comments, misunderstandings about how a modality changes from showing an owner to the path a qualified practitioner takes, bringing others down in order to build your modality up is not how things should be done.

Two people could qualify in one modality yet be so different in their approach you would not recognise they both have a similar training background, one may qualify yet never go out and work so only bring the tools of the modality of the time they qualified, another may encounter many horses every day changing their techniques adapting to each horse and eventually the two people can look very different.

Bringing a whole modality down because it didn't resonate with your experience is limiting the potential to explore, grow, and move beyond your one experience of an individuals application of the things they learned

What did they bring when beginning the modality ?? Did they have to unlearn previous applications so maybe found it harder than someone who came in with no prior experience, how is their application does one struggle to feel while another flows through the body like water.

It's not about modalities its always about the individual application behind it that makes every therapist unique and individual, its not just about techniques its how we live and breathe our life with horses, its bringing a little bit of who we are into our work, that is what makes us not a modality but a therapist.

I was always told never leave a door slammed shut on your way out, leave the door ajar because you never know when you may need to knock on it and ask to be let back in.

I remember one client who said we book you because we like you, we like the way you work, we like how you respect our horses, that is not taught in a classroom its who we are.

So if you like me are looking around thinking where are we at, why in a world of preaching kindness we see so much animosity. If you feel that how can we move forward I simply say if you cannot treat humans with kindness and kindness does not mean not holding people accountable for their actions or words, then how would you treat my horse if it disagreed with your opinion when working on it.

Choose a therapist because they are good at what they do regardless of the modality they chose to train with.

The horse always tells you the truth listen to them.

08/12/2025

More and more I wonder how the average horse owner is supposed to make good choices for their horses, when there is so much misinformation, opinion, fear driven agenda and judgement out there on social media (and not just in horses, but definitely in horses).

If you don’t do X you’re terrible
OMG if you DO X you’re terrible
Forget about X, have you heard about Y?!

Caught in a trap of too much, not enough, spend more, do more, NO do less. Tack, training, vet care, trimming/shoeing, competing, feeding, and yes, bodywork. None of it is free of the weight of someone telling you you’re doing it wrong, and not always in a helpful, constructive or supportive way.

But it is worth remembering, that the most vocal opinions on social media, are usually the ones being paid per click, and RAGE sure drives more clicks than JOY ~ unfortunately.

I’m trying to be here for the joy, for your success and progress with your horses. And to scroll on by the unnecessary drama.

Hooked on Outrage: How Rage Bait Hijacks Your Thinking and Sucks You In 🪝🔥

"Rage bait is like giving your amygdala a double espresso, handing it a pitchfork, and getting pointed at a target - all before your brain’s had time to put its pants on."

I have been a researcher in critical thinking, which means I’ve spent years studying how people reason and form arguments, weigh evidence, and decide what’s true. I also know exactly how to make them abandon all of that in seconds. It’s called rage bait.

Rage bait is the fine art of dressing up a half-truth in outrage clothing so you click before your brain catches up. Enough fact to hook you, enough nonsense to steer you into the waiting arms of someone else’s agenda.

In the horse world, the influencers are artists and they sit at both ends of the spectrum. For example, whips are evil. You can train without ever asking a horse to do something it doesn’t volunteer for. Noble? Sure. Realistic? Only if you’ve never met an actual horse. The truth? You can do harm with a whip, but you can also use one with skill to communicate clearly. See, some truth but it is not the full story.

Criticism is part of the plan. Point out that the horse in the video looks confused, distressed, or just not doing what’s claimed, and suddenly the influencer is the Persecuted Genius, being attacked by the ignorant. Their followers leap in because loyalty to the tribe has replaced loyalty to reality.

Then we have the pure rage bait merchants. Their business is outrage for clicks. Cruelty clips from equestrian sports, captions designed to spike your blood pressure, and an algorithm happy to serve it up like hot chips. You feel righteous. You feel active. But nothing changes, except their follower count. Meanwhile, the boring, unclickable work of actually making change goes unseen.

Let's also not forget that these days we can be played by AI driven fake accounts deliberately triggering you thinking the world has gone mad and outrage is necessary. And don't get me started on the AI images and videos...

This pattern isn’t unique to horses. Politics. Media. Social movements. Rage is currency. Manufacture a crisis, justify the solution, collect the power. The more furious you are, the less likely you are to notice what’s missing, exaggerated, or entirely made up. The wrong person can look very right standing on a mountain of collective fury.

And here’s the cost no one talks about — rage bait can blow up friendships, fracture families, and scorch relationships like a grass fire in summer. All because someone with a content calendar knew exactly how to pull your emotional strings. So before you throw away people you love over an influencer’s post, ask yourself… are you making your own decisions, or are you just the puppet in their show? The social media algorithms are creating our individual realities and that is having ramifications. Therefore, THINK. Seriously think. Get curious about the opinions and views of others and learn to fact check from outside sources, not just what appears in your newsfeed.

We need to get real and get conscious that it is easy to become aligned in this matrix. It’s not value alignment. It’s identity alignment. You’re not defending what’s right anymore, you’re defending your side. And while you’re locked in battle over the Issue of the Week, the bigger problems trot quietly by, unchallenged.

The most skilled rage baiters don’t just ride the outrage wave, they make the wave. Pick the target. Frame the narrative. Set the loyalty test. It’s the same old playbook from history’s ugliest chapters. Stir fear and anger, split the herd, and keep them moving exactly where you want them.

The discipline is in spotting the bait before you bite. Ask: What’s really being claimed here? Who benefits if I share this? Is the outrage helping horses, or just inflating an influencer’s engagement stats?

Here’s the irony. You could accuse this post of being rage bait. In which case, consider this your practice round. Keep thinking. Stop feeding rage in the algorithm. Go read something you’re curious about instead. This is because it is knowledge built from curiosity that will protect us, our horses and equestrian pursuits. While rage is a tool to distract and potentially manipulate us. Rage can benefit the last kind of person and the worst kind of activities you wish to support.

So, treat this post as a test.

However, if you think people deserve a heads-up about this manipulative game of rage bait… go on then. Share it. 📲