We talk a lot about purpose at HorseBack. We believe everyone needs a mission. That is a huge part of what we do with our

An interesting man said, not so long ago, ‘People are starving for connection.’ He meant modern humans in the industrialised world. This struck such a

The two main things which stop people talking about their mental health are fear and shame. The fear is that admitting to anxiety or depression

At HorseBack, we love learning from the best. And when it comes to horses, Ray Hunt is up there in the pantheon of the greats.

The brain is an amazingly complex organ, but helping it function at its full capacity can involve very, very simple things. We love the simple

It is Armed Forces Week, and this means a lot to us at Horseback.We are connected to the armed forces in many different ways. Four

It’s World Music Day and we at HorseBack have an official reason to celebrate some of our favourite songs. But music is not just a

We love our horses so much at HorseBack. We admire them, because they do such valuable and meaningful work – with veterans, with serving men

National Volunteers Week has just come to an end and at HorseBack we have been thinking of the incredible volunteers who do so much to

It is Mental Health Awareness Week and we at HorseBack have been thinking about everything we know about better mental health. Enhancing mental health has

We have a week between courses just now, and this is the time we take to concentrate on our horses. They work so hard through

One of the things that working with horses has taught us at HorseBack is being aware of our emotions. If we go down to the

It has become a little bit fashionable, in certain circles, to sneer at experts. We have no idea why this is. We at HorseBack love

Last Sunday, a violent storm blew in. It was the third destructive weather system to hit Scotland since Christmas, and the second time that all

One of the most debilitating human emotions is the feeling of being stuck. Stuckness doesn’t sound very dramatic, but it’s a soul-crusher. The sense of

The gloominess and doominess of January can sometimes seem clichéd and apocryphal, but pretty much everyone we know, even the most cheery, has had a

One of the greatest human needs is to belong. Our earliest ancestors lived in small, dependent groups. The tribe was a matter of life and

We’ve been wanting to write a blog for a while about pain. We see all kinds of pain at HorseBack, physical and mental, and we

The pandemic year of 2020-2021 was tough on HorseBack. Our courses are residential, so even when lockdown eased for a moment, we could not simply