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The Missing Piece provides in depth and overall equine fitness rehabilitation, as well as body work for performance enhancement.

11/27/2025

The past year-year and a half has been a bucking, spooking, hell of a ride, to say the least! I am so thankful for each and every person who has continued to let me help their horse, supported myself and my family through all things crazy and genuinely just been in my corner.

Being a business owner is really hard, being an equine business owner is 300x harder. I will never be able to truly express how thankful I am to all of you.

As the year starts to wind down and the holidays arrive, I will be spending more time with my family and re-evaluating what will be best for the business in 2026 to continue to support all of you. So, we may be quiet on here, but not to worry, I will still be helping your horses and looking forward to seeing all of your faces each month!

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I couldn’t keep doing this without any of you💗🦃

11/22/2025

I know so many of us are guilty of thinking just because we cause no visible harm to our horses, that we must not be making them sore or causing internal damage at one point or another. Most times, it never occurs to us until it’s far too late and our horses are screaming…

When I did the dissection last fall, this all really came to light for me, seeing the horse from the inside out.

Once we damage a soft tissue, or even a bone, it can be really difficult to gain that health & strength of the tissue back to where it originally was. This is something that is so important to think about when working with our horses…

That “sort of fitting” saddle, may seem mostly okay on the outside, but is really destroying the horse’s back & scapula. Those wraps that you think are “good enough” could be over heating or putting improper pressure in just the right spot to damage a lower leg structure. Your horse seems to not love that bit, it’s probably jamming them just right in the pallet or pressing just too much on the bars of their mouth.

Next time you think something is “good enough,” I want you to stop and think if it’s worth more damaging your horse’s body or taking the time to make sure everything is perfect.

11/20/2025

Let me help your horses and your friend’s horses this season! Anyone who books a visit & provides me your name for a referral gets you a discount on your horse’s next session! Last month I had someone receive $20 in savings and their horse had a great session, what could be better?!

11/17/2025

As I have been sharing here or there, this fall has been a bit hectic for me personally. My wedding, honeymoon, family things, health stuff.. you name it, it popped up.

I am incredibly lucky that most have been so understanding, accommodating and supportive over the past few months. More recently, though, I have to admit, I’m not feeling the same. I’m not sure if it’s because my flexibility is less, if horses are just needing more immediate help, if it seems as though I’m not serving to my capabilities, if people really just feel as though I’m here to serve or if there is just a disconnect.

I know I’m not the only equine or regular professional out there, trying my very best, balancing all the things and trying to keep everyone satisfied. It absolutely shatters my soul, heart, hopes and dreams when I tell someone I am not available or my flexibility is limited (with good reason, I always give a honest reason!!) and they are very clearly giving me dissatisfied answers back.

So here is my reminder- just because we are professionals now, doesn’t mean we weren’t humans first. Just because we show up to serve you, your horse and the needs that are open, doesn’t mean we don’t have our own battles and needs we are facing when we get back in our cars. I PROMISE you, we want to be available, we want to help you, but we also need to help ourselves and our families. So please, next time your professional tells you they aren’t available or have a flexibility issue, be kind, I promise it’s for a good reason!

11/15/2025

One person can’t do it all, it just isn’t possible and one solution doesn’t fit every horse. They are all living creatures with different needs.

If you have a professional on your team who doesn’t willing want to collaborate with other professionals to keep the best interest of you or your horse in mind, I hate say it, but now is the time to show that professional the stall door….

What professionals are on your horse’s care team? Drop them in the comments because maybe someone else is looking to add to their team!🔽

11/13/2025

I used to get asked very frequently “so what is the difference between k tape and duct tape?” I still very often get asked “what does this tape do anyway?”

Living creatures, much like ourselves, are held together below the skin by a connective tissue called fascia. Fascia is where we often experience blockages of blood, which present as tension, soreness or even a knot. The tape works to ever so slightly lift the skin away from the fascia, allowing the blood flow to be restored!

Depending on how you apply the tape, in addition to controlling the pain response, it can also:
❤️‍🩹support joints (as seen here offering hock support & relief for an arthritic girl)
❤️‍🩹allow muscle activation after an injury & a muscle has been sleeping
❤️‍🩹muscle relaxation as talked about earlier in the post
❤️‍🩹circulation improvement.. think healing a bruise
❤️‍🩹encouraging lymphatic drainage.. think stocked up legs
❤️‍🩹spot decompression reducing a large muscle knot

If you think your horse could benefit from some tape too, I bet they absolutely can, so lets talk today!

11/11/2025

I want to help you help your friends and their horses! Did you know we have a referral program in place?! Refer a friend and get $10 off your horse’s next visit!

Just the other weekend I had someone get $20 off their horse’s session!

What are you waiting for?! Your horse and your friend’s horse deserve this..

11/08/2025

Do you start your session with your horse by tacking them up and then pulling their leg forward? Do you stretch your horse’s shoulders by pulling their leg straight forward?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions: please HALT!

First- you should never PULL your horse’s leg forward! Yikes! You are doing exactly that- pulling on their shoulder, not stretching a thing!

The myth of bringing the horse’s leg forward in-front of them once tacked came from a good place, but we have since grown our education. In doing so, all you are doing is allowing more skin to build up around the compressed area, leading to more tension or even a hot spot.

When stretching your horse’s shoulder, it is so important you:
1. Lift the foot as if you were going to clean it
2. Support the knee and the fetlock
3. Guide the leg forward, keeping a 90 degree angle in the upper leg vs lower leg the entire time
4. Gently add some tension, guiding the horse’s leg ever so slightly forward while still in the 90 degree shape

In performing the stretch in such a manner, you are not only providing proper support to your horse’s joints and leg, but also allowing the horse to actually stretch through their shoulders, chest and rib cage.

11/06/2025

As a horse owner myself, I know the feeling of wanting to do what is best for your horse, but also feeling like it’s one more invoice after invoice coming in, with no end in sight.

I want to help you help your horse. As a result, I have decided to pause my new client fee for any new client interested in my services for their horse. This will run through the holidays, as my gift back to you. That means that new client or returning client, first appointment or tenth, will all pay the same price, $85.

Now, let’s get your horse on the calendar! I looj forward to chatting with you!💗

11/03/2025

Every time I hear “No Stirrup November” I always want to hide under a rock. Part of me, of course, is because I don’t want my trainers taking my stirrups away, but as my education has grown, it pains me to know how much pain your horse is being caused by taking rider’s stirrups away!

Don’t get me wrong, my students do ride without stirrups for things like:
✅feeling where their leg should lay
✅learning how to activate different parts of their leg
✅check their core strength & balance in the saddle

However, if you consistently are riding without stirrups and aren’t fit, you are consistently putting extra strain on your horse’s body as they have to compensate for your lack of fitness. Additionally, you end up learning to just grip with your leg for dear life as a compensation to lack of balance, which encourages you to use your leg in the incorrect way! Yikes!!

Improperly fit riders riding without stirrups can lead to:
❌neck & back tension for your horse
❌horses becoming hard in their mouth
❌the horse becoming unbalanced/coordinated

So, next time you are told to drop your stirrups, I want you to ask “why?” and I don’t want you to mean this disrespectfully, but I want you to fully understand why you are doing what you’re doing, how it will affect your horse and what benefit it truly has to your riding!

10/31/2025

I will never not post these photos of Tommy for Halloween because he was the best flying hula boy there ever was and this is a memory I will always remember 🍍🌺

10/30/2025

If you can ask your horse to push their body to its limits and perform how you want it to, then you can also put in the effort to schedule your horse a massage so their body can feel how they want it to…

Remember, massage isn’t just a luxury! Massage helps with:
🩺Circulation improvements
🩺Lymphatic drainage
🩺Muscle tension/soreness
🩺Injury prevention
🩺Stress relief and adrenal balance
Plus so much more…

Next time your horse is telling you they can’t perform how you’re asking, I want you to stop and ask yourself when the last time you did something to help support their body or we can skip that whole conversation with your horse and prevent it before it happens! I bet, it’s time to book a massage…

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