Never Give Up!

For awhile there, I allowed a "few" to shake my confidence. " Sell that horse" they said. " Is riding really so important to you that you would continue to ride "that" horse?" I allowed a "few" to shake my confidence to the core of my inner being. They shook it so hard. I started to wonder if I was even worthy enough to be a human being. After that accident, I did not start out insecure. I just wanted to carry on and get better. Huge set backs came in 2009, but I fought through them. Confidence was non existent by Jan 2011. I am confident again. Can confidence be taken? yes, if you allow it. Someone can always shake you. It is up to us, to keep up iron clad boundaries. Dont ever allow anyone to make a joke of you. Those who do not wish you well, show them the door and then lock it. Esco and I have swung hard through a cement wall. And we have reached the other side. It can be done. It absolutely can be done. We are coming back at life. Many many thanks to a spouse, horse and Coach. Dont give up!......never give up. ♥

Improving with Fire and Determination

Be Present

Someone asked me a question awhile go and I had to really think about it.

"What was the biggest break through moment with Osinski?" 

Well, there wasn't one.  The clouds did not part and the sky did not open up or anything. Riding takes work, period. It takes practice and repetition. It took Mike Osinski coaching me and through his coaching he helped me to be "present" and I became "present" and lived in the moment. On that horse, in that arena, with this coach... I was present. I think we can do just about anything, if we learn to stay present.

Sallie Stewart

February 17, 2012 - All Things are Possible

All things are absolutely possible if one wants it bad enough. Horse it just a metaphor......he can apply to many things in life. This is the ride of the 17th THE DAY. This day, and this accident do not own me anymore. It is all possible. ♥



Oh yes, I have absolutely lived under tremendous pressure LOL. If you dont think a Brain Injury was much. Try, riding the horse who gave it to you, then nearly losing everything. Pressure? nope have no idea what that is. LOL I can tell you, it is amazing what one can survive. Love yourself well, just love yourself well ♥

Sallie Stewart

I Dreamed Him Into My Life...

I will never forget the day, I first met him. The way he confidently walked up to the fence and submissively looked him my eyes. " So you are the one? ". Hardest thing was to know I had found my horse, and not take him home with me. Every night, I laid my head down on my pillow, I looked at his pic on my screen saver and said , " Esco come to me." It started in late Jan. , by April he was here. Mike, says, I dreamed him into my life. Others say, he flew into my life as if on some mission. Me? I have no answer's. I can only say, the horse moved my soul since day one. My life has never been the same since the day he arrived. The people, I have met over Escogido.......have been nothing more than beautiful. This horse has been a gift, on so many levels. SO many levels.

Sallie Stewart

The Horse Moved My Soul...

Watched footage of riding a couple years ago. He moved me. The horse moved my soul. I knew, I could not stay where I was and keep him in my life. I had to grow, I had to rise up, to overcome. In the end, I suppose the horse is a metaphor representing life. When I had to push to through, and not stop ever. For if I stopped ridding the horse, I would have stopped living life.


~Sallie Stewart

Finished Strong!