Get Gritty: How to Become a Confident Cowgirl
What you'll learn
- Master key mental skills to overcome fear/anxiety/nerves and enjoy your horse again!
- Get to the Root cause of your fear/anxiety, and understand how your fear/anxiety affects your horse-so you can overcome it.
- Assess your current confidence level and know what areas to focus on to improve your overall confidence.
- Clarify your purpose for your horsemanship journey, which will help fuel you through challenges.
- Identify and utilize your Signature Strengths to build your confidence and go after your horsemanship dreams.
- Learn proven positive psychology and mental toughness tools that you can use to develop your confidence-both in and out of the saddle.
- Make a personalized confidence plan using the proven power of mental contrasting.
- Reframe Negative Thinking and Doubts into Positive Affirmations to boost confidence.
Requirements
- Basic Horsemanship Skills
- Blank Notebook or Journal
- Passion for Horses and a Desire to Be a Better Horsewoman
Description
What could you achieve with your horse if you were more confident?
Would you like to feel calm, confident, and in control when you ride?
Would you like to explore new trails with your horse?
Would you like to compete with your horse and know that you are performing at your best?
Would you like to enjoy the time you spend with your horse?
What is regaining your confidence worth?
Don't wait.
You deserve to feel confident with your horse.
You deserve to enjoy riding your horse, not dread it!
What is not regaining your confidence costing you?
Are you missing out on trail rides with your friends?
Are you putting off going to the shows that you really want to compete at?
Are you paying thousands of dollars a year for a horse that just sits in the pasture?
What is regaining your confidence worth to you?
Confidence.
Horsewomen I work with list lack of confidence as the biggest barrier to achieving their dreams.
Horse activities that were once your dream, your passion, are no longer fun. When you don't feel confident, you might experience sweaty palms, upset stomach, shortness of breath, intense fear and anxiety. For those of you that show your horse, it certainly becomes difficult to perform at your best! For some horsewomen it becomes so terrible that they no longer want to ride.
You may have been told to just get over it, it is all in your head, and to just get back on the horse. Or that all fear is caused by a lack of knowledge, so to fix it you just need to take more lessons. You may have even tried many different things to get your confidence back, but nothing seems to help.
If this is you, don't despair. It doesn't have to be this way!
In this Get Gritty Coaching Course, we will work to cultivate your trust in your self, your horse, and your unique horsemanship journey so that you can ride with complete confidence. The mental skills and techniques taught in this course are the key to overcoming fear, anxiety and nervousness so that you can enjoy your horse again!
Take back control of your horsemanship journey. You have the ability to go after your dreams. Trust yourself, and step into the saddle. It is time to get gritty!
Who this course is for:
- Horsewomen that want to Get Gritty and be courageous and confident with their horse.
Course content
- Preview03:42
- 14:37What is Confidence? Why is it important to be confident when riding horses?
- 07:57Getting to the Root Cause of Your Fear
- 03:05Creating Confidence with Journaling
- Preview05:28
- 03:59Self-Efficacy & Self-Compassion
- 02:16The Science of Hope: Agency + Pathways --> Goals
- 00:57Confidence Assessment: The 8 Main Aspects of Confidence
Instructor
Hi, I'm Chevy. As a lifelong horsewoman (and also Hereford cow/calf producer, farm wife, and Mama to two little cowboys) I understand that being a horsewoman isn't just a hobby. It is a lifestyle! I enjoy helping horsewomen apply positive psychology techniques to enjoy their horsemanship journey and achieve their dreams.
I understand the unique struggles that horsewomen face because I face them too! I have felt afraid in the saddle. I have felt nervous and anxious. I have experienced what it feels like to not be confident. After my first son was born, I was terrified in the saddle. And no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make myself relax. It wasn't that I didn't have horse knowledge or horsemanship skills-before my kids were born I trained wild mustangs for Mustang Makeovers! It wasn't that my horses were unbroke or naughty-they were quiet, gentle ranch horses. The problem was all in my own head. And it was so frustrating! I wanted to be able to lope across a field to gather our cattle. I wanted to be able to relax and ride down the trail with my husband. I wanted to be able to show my horses again.
That is what led me to study mental toughness and positive psychology. Because I love horses, and imagining a life where I didn't ride was not an option! So I began my own journey to rebuild my self-confidence, to overcome the negative self-talk and doubts. And I learned that by mastering simple mental skills I could again ride without fear. I could again ride into a show pen feeling focused instead of nervous.
Along the way I discovered that horses and life are the same. By focusing on what I needed to do to feel more positive in the saddle, I also started to feel more positive with my life in general. It is a cycle-if our life is in balance, if we as a person are more positive, then our horsemanship will improve too.
Along my journey to confidence, I discovered that I wasn't alone. That other cowgirls like me faced the same challenges and lack of confidence-whether it was due to injury, having a family, or being out of the saddle for awhile. And just knowing that I wasn't alone was so healing for me, and I knew that helping others regain their confidence was part of my purpose along my own horsemanship journey. So I studied Life Coaching, and became certified as a Confidence Coach and Master Coach through the Transformation Academy, so that I could improve my coaching skills and make the road to confidence smoother for you than it was for me, struggling by myself.
That is why I created my Get Gritty courses-to share with you the process that helped me change from scared to ride, to able to lope across the pasture on a loose rein. These are the same steps that I took, the same skills that I learned, all proven effective by the science of positive psychology, and put together in an easy to follow, step-by-step process to empower you to be more confident as taught in my coaching certification courses. Because if I can overcome these struggles to be more positive in my life, find the fun along my horsemanship journey, and be a confident cowgirl again, so can you! Because horses are more than a hobby. It's a lifestyle. And to succeed and be happier along this bumpy ride, we need to get gritty.
~Chevy