Summit Acres Wellness by Ginny LaPrairie

07/25/2025

Now this is trust. She follows me around as much as I swear, the manager is inspecting my work.🙌 Not pictured are the chickens she chased away in case they didn't think for themselves like Lily the barn cat.

The long-game is the short direct game in my philosophy. The horse is never wrong to act like a horse. I have a responsibility to allow space for her to "speak," to grow my understanding of her language, and to collaborate. I make room to patiently ask for what I need, too, like a soft "back up" so I'm not mugged for food. The key is that we give each other space to process and progress. There is a ton of feedback and respect, until expectation is quickly added.

The wisdom of the mare is to take care of her herd and sometimes she won't stop to ask when she feels the consequences are dire. Ask everyone in her pasture. It's not mean.

To the naked eye, she's twice been accused of being bossy or bullying. Until the epiphany. It's care. As gentle as she is, "Get out of the way for safety!" It's never abused. It's the only time she doesn't coexist peacefully, never any harm, and it's what made me curious. It's her version of "shoo".

Her sensitivity is her superpower and around here she gets a voice; the very voice she uses to help you process your uniqueness.

Same goes for you as you learn when to speak up and when to hold tight. Quiet can be an equally powerful answer, and your discernment takes your regulated nervous system. Sacred silence has its place.

Either way, the answer lies in your ability to regulate when you're receiving or giving feedback. Firm. Fair. Consistent.


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07/19/2025

07/14/2025

Want more but not currently in monthly coaching? Schedule a 45-minute "Be HERd" individual wellness experience: 757.679.3009

A gentle reminder: your worth isn't measured by your struggles.

What to expect: Jack and Iris give you exactly what you need so every experience is unique to you. This is an invitation to be heard without censorship through coaching and horse medicine.

This is not psychotherapy and utilizes coaching, horses and nature as a unique wellness modality. With my light guidance and the space to be you, the measurable evidence includes:

》Oxytocin stimulation: the "cuddle" or "love" hormone

》Lower stress, anxiety and depression

》Rest and return to the vital energy required for your wellbeing and those you care for

07/10/2025

What is wellness tribalism? While it can be beneficial to receive education, accountability, and group support, this speaks to the judgmental identity of one group and one way. It often isolates others, decreases bio-individuality, and devalues the objective perspectives and evidence-based science of others or what works for them.

In its divisiveness, it may create outsiders, going as far as to speak on someone's moral state and integrity, forgetting that we have desiring health and wellness in common. It leaves out our home culture differences and the importance of food and community, and assumes personality. It often creates an elite club in the view of its members and judges those who don't conform.

Most documented harmful effects:
🧐 Encourages one-upping
🧐 Contributes to health anxiety, emotional eating and body image disorders
🧐 Encourages pseudo-science and confirmation bias
🧐 Isolates others desiring help
🧐 Creates a mini army of unqualified people telling others what to do and how to be based on what worked for them

This is not to be confused with objectivity, sound science, community support, and quality friendship. The motivation matters - ego vs collective care for the greater good.

Why does this happen? The shadow side of:
👀 The innate human need for belonging
👀 Desire for shared purpose
👀 Social identity and framework for understanding one's Self
👀 Emotional attachment to our decisions coupled with a fixed mindset

If you have to put someone down to help them, that's not a misalignment...that's BS. Are we discerning or judging?

It's important to find your people and feel connected, but respectfully, if there is no empathy for a version of your struggle, you're likely using them for misguided power.

07/09/2025

Women need healthy female connections. They decrease our blood pressure and increase our dopamine. We're designed for it.

When we use the same rigid strategies in healthy relationships as we do in toxic ones, we erode trust, create unnecessary distance, make change impossible, and make repair impermissible.

If we do the opposite and treat toxic relationships as if they're healthy, we abandon ourselves and participate in our own resentment.

In a healthy relationship, explanation (not justification) has its place. The goal is to protect and care for your relationship, not end it.

In the end, people who are not looking to cross your boundaries or seek gaining from a lack of them, will not mind.

07/09/2025

Goodnight from Summit!

07/08/2025

Most personal power is quiet. It doesn't bark and rarely defends. It's in the ability to transmute pain into wisdom and purpose, to seek challenge, to honor quiet when it's an appropriate response, to choose the hard right decision over the fast one you'll regret for immediate comfort, and in the ability to stand, face the storm and take aligned action.

There's no magic pill or quick fix for deep sustainable wellness. There's no end when you're devoted to growth. The process is what you learn to love...not seeking non-existent perfection. Healthy striving and mastery comes from mental fitness. It's only ever you against yesterday's you.

Freedom is in the ability to choose, take accountability, and decide what you're made of. You always have a choice for how you "be"... We are human BEings.

It's in the ability to keep out the noise and stay the course as much as we plan rest and listen to our minds and bodies. The trick? Challenge how you think and seek support.

It's in the ability to pay it forward.

Presence is power. What invitations to chaos can you stop answering? You don't get to return to the past. Learn and move on. There's a way...

Do you feel powerful in a workout and equally powerful for getting through on the days you didn't want to but did?

When you're sick or injured you quickly feel that loss. Sometimes we have to adapt and in that self-agency take the frustration of feeling trapped in your own body by redefining what it looks like. Your mind is your power until your body follows in a new way.

Adaptation is not weakness. Vulnerability is courage.

Growth Mindset: This can change.

How do you define power?

07/08/2025

💫When safety is recreated your body leans into growth and healing. Your mind and body begin to trust again. You return to your natural state of wellness, learn the tools to renegotiate inevitable emotional terrain, and regain your ability to navigate in a calmer state of personal power.

💫My wellness program takes an outside-in and inside-out layered approach to validate and reframe your experiences, ultimately guiding you back to your own wisdom and deep knowing.

💫Together, we create a roadmap to soothe your internal condition and give you the tools to stand on your own two feet again.

07/07/2025

👊Routine = consistency
👊Routine also frees your mind so you have the energy to make hard/big/creative decisions.
👊Let the easy stuff be easy.

Embrace the routine:
💪"I always workout/actively recover at 7 am"
💪"I always review my daily design at 7 pm for the next day"

🙌Let's play the long game:
Your habits are in check. They're routine. You're energized and free for the big stuff.

Comment what this looks like for you!

06/29/2025

06/23/2025

🧘‍♀️Mother Nature assisted .c in hot yoga but tonight did not disappoint! Connections, synchronicities, horse hugs, and matters of the heart. Tonight was special.🤍
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