Holding a Grudge!
July 13, 2017
It’s been a little over two years since I met Trooper and Pauline Briggs. Every spring and fall I usually have a table at the Stony Plain Tack Sale. I started out there selling tack, however after being there for one sale selling tack I realized that this sale would be a tremendous opportunity to meet some horse owners. I could help these horse owners talk with their horses and help them understand their horses’ point of view.
In April of 2015 Pauline walked over to my table at the sale and said she’d been looking for someone like me for years. Where have you been she asked? I explained that I had just moved to the area. We started talking and could hardly stop. She was excited she’d met an animal communicator and I was excited that I was going to work with a horse. I do love the sessions I have with horses. They are very special!
I’ve written blogs about the work I did with Trooper, as well as the work I did with Pauline so she could begin working on her horses herself, so I will not repeat myself. Here are the links to the blog posts I’d written about Trooper and Pauline in 2015. Like a Trooper, Trooper Revisited and Get Your Training On.
When I met Pauline in April of 2015 she told me that her horse, Trooper, has been lame for ten years! And she still kept him! Being lame for Trooper was intermittent. He wasn’t always lame, only when they were going to show him. Trooper won a lot of ribbons. You should see the collection of them in Pauline’s barn. But Trooper wasn’t happy. He did not want to be a pretty horse on show. He just wanted to be a regular old horse. After a few communication sessions, Pauline told Trooper that he could just be a saddle horse, if that was what he wanted. Trooper still had his issues. After all those years, Trooper revealed that he was holding a grudge against his owner Pauline. Pauline had bought Trooper when he was three. He is fifteen years old this year. Finally Pauline has the answers to her questions as to why Trooper was lame all these years. He didn’t want to be a pretty horse on show, and if they were going to show him, he was going to be lame. But the lameness wasn’t just about showing. Trooper was holding a grudge about the lives Pauline had had with him prior to this life.
In some of Trooper’s sessions, he had revealed that he and Pauline had been together before, in other lives. Pauline was often a soldier and Trooper had been her warhorse. He had been killed many times and had even lost his leg. It had been blown off. This was the same leg he has issues with.
It was obvious that Trooper had issues with those lives and that leg, and he did not want to let them go. Every time Pauline went to ride him, he went lame. However when he was in the pasture with the other horses, he was not lame at all! He’d run like crazy and was not suffering. Pauline’s daughter decided that if Trooper could run in the pasture, she would ride him, and ride him hard. She started roping off of him and Trooper loved it! Many nights Trooper had spent watching his herd mates rope in the outdoor arena while he was left out. Finally, after twelve years of being lame, Trooper had decided to let the grudge go. I went over to Pauline’s about a month ago and watched her ride Trooper in their arena. Trooper was well behaved and in great form. Pauline was so happy. I said to her, “You’re riding your horse!”
Twelve years is a long time to hang on to a lame horse. Pauline understood that if she got rid of Trooper, she would most likely have the same issue in another horse. You see we get what we ask for and we have to work through those issues so they do not keep returning. Pauline had a very deep connection with this horse. She paid attention to that connection and never gave up on Trooper, even though during this healing time, he tried to bite her (he was that mad!). This story has a happy ending but came with a lot of work, patience and learning.
It’s been a little over two years since I met Trooper and Pauline Briggs. Every spring and fall I usually have a table at the Stony Plain Tack Sale. I started out there selling tack, however after being there for one sale selling tack I realized that this sale would be a tremendous opportunity to meet some horse owners. I could help these horse owners talk with their horses and help them understand their horses’ point of view.
In April of 2015 Pauline walked over to my table at the sale and said she’d been looking for someone like me for years. Where have you been she asked? I explained that I had just moved to the area. We started talking and could hardly stop. She was excited she’d met an animal communicator and I was excited that I was going to work with a horse. I do love the sessions I have with horses. They are very special!
I’ve written blogs about the work I did with Trooper, as well as the work I did with Pauline so she could begin working on her horses herself, so I will not repeat myself. Here are the links to the blog posts I’d written about Trooper and Pauline in 2015. Like a Trooper, Trooper Revisited and Get Your Training On.
When I met Pauline in April of 2015 she told me that her horse, Trooper, has been lame for ten years! And she still kept him! Being lame for Trooper was intermittent. He wasn’t always lame, only when they were going to show him. Trooper won a lot of ribbons. You should see the collection of them in Pauline’s barn. But Trooper wasn’t happy. He did not want to be a pretty horse on show. He just wanted to be a regular old horse. After a few communication sessions, Pauline told Trooper that he could just be a saddle horse, if that was what he wanted. Trooper still had his issues. After all those years, Trooper revealed that he was holding a grudge against his owner Pauline. Pauline had bought Trooper when he was three. He is fifteen years old this year. Finally Pauline has the answers to her questions as to why Trooper was lame all these years. He didn’t want to be a pretty horse on show, and if they were going to show him, he was going to be lame. But the lameness wasn’t just about showing. Trooper was holding a grudge about the lives Pauline had had with him prior to this life.
In some of Trooper’s sessions, he had revealed that he and Pauline had been together before, in other lives. Pauline was often a soldier and Trooper had been her warhorse. He had been killed many times and had even lost his leg. It had been blown off. This was the same leg he has issues with.
It was obvious that Trooper had issues with those lives and that leg, and he did not want to let them go. Every time Pauline went to ride him, he went lame. However when he was in the pasture with the other horses, he was not lame at all! He’d run like crazy and was not suffering. Pauline’s daughter decided that if Trooper could run in the pasture, she would ride him, and ride him hard. She started roping off of him and Trooper loved it! Many nights Trooper had spent watching his herd mates rope in the outdoor arena while he was left out. Finally, after twelve years of being lame, Trooper had decided to let the grudge go. I went over to Pauline’s about a month ago and watched her ride Trooper in their arena. Trooper was well behaved and in great form. Pauline was so happy. I said to her, “You’re riding your horse!”
Twelve years is a long time to hang on to a lame horse. Pauline understood that if she got rid of Trooper, she would most likely have the same issue in another horse. You see we get what we ask for and we have to work through those issues so they do not keep returning. Pauline had a very deep connection with this horse. She paid attention to that connection and never gave up on Trooper, even though during this healing time, he tried to bite her (he was that mad!). This story has a happy ending but came with a lot of work, patience and learning.