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eyeroll… so you pay her 1500 and she won’t even grade your homework?
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They are at it again. Someone cautioned against her “nerve release”. Tara Davis and Samantha Watt exploded out of the woodworks on the attack. It’s disgusting. I cannot stomach these hateful people. All for money and recognition on effing social media. They really. Really. Should be ashamed. But. They aren’t. And idiots out there are so terrified that the YEARS and relationship they have with their OWN horses aren’t enough. That they need this trash to make them better horse humans. It is absolutely crushing.
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This is the homework for week one in my Nerve Reelase Course; but honestly I thought the entire collective could use it.
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Bodywork to me, is a sacred dance.
It is not some mechanical and sterile action or job that I perform on a body.
Human or horse.
Instead, it is a co-creation of healing between them and I.
Before I put hands on a body, I am already talking to it.
Setting gentle intentions of genuinely seeking to understand how I can be used to help facilitate the releases that it needs but cannot find itself.
I come to it, energetically on my knees with a reverence for all that it has been through, and for how powerful it still is.
Fervently respecting that the fascia binding down into restrictions are not “bad”.
Those beautiful webs are simply the binding spells that your body weaved together intelligently and craft fully, to protect you (or whoever you were seeking to protect) in a time of need.
I thank it, and tell it how sorry I am for having to do that in the first place, but how in awe of it I am that it was able to.
I remind it to be so proud of itself.
It is not up to me to decide what should stay and what should go.
It is merely up to me to listen, facilitate, and take only what the body decides it no longer needs to hold onto.
I believe that the thing that helps me to build trust and create the changes I am able to co-create, is the contract that I bind myself to -
"I promise to never knowingly take you past threshold.
I promise that if something happens and I do on accident, I will immediately be accountable for my part and learn from the experience to never do it again.
I promise that my touch will never come with a selfish motive.
I promise to be mindful of my own self and our environment so you feel safe.
I promise to protect you while you are vulnerable.
I promise to honor your voice and take to heart when you say, No.
I promise to only take the space your body willingly gives me.
I promise to never bulldoze you.
I promise to stay open minded and free from any bias that I might hold around your body and what it needs.
I promise to seek answers for things I do not know.
I promise to never assume I know better for you, than you do.
I promise to listen.
I promise to stay".
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My Homework for you -
1.) Come up with your own contract going into this work.
It can be mine, it can be your own words, it can be something different all together.
I want you to say it out loud before every session.
(You can do this driving to the barn and in your own privacy, but force yourself to do the act of saying it out loud.)
2.) Write yourself a letter, forgiving yourself of any feelings of regret or pain that come up for you as you learn to better understand your horse.
You have always done as right by them as you could, and your continued growth is what makes you worthy of them.
I want you to read that letter out loud to yourself every day, for at least 30 days or until it stops feeling fake or gross when you do it. (Trust me, I know).
3.) Set aside some intentional time, and truly sit with your horse.
Watch them while they move and appreciate their body for all that it was, is and will continue to be.
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We ae not here to fix them, we are here to unfurl their wings, remind them how to ground and facilitate them in their own healing.
And I believe they are here to do the same, for us.
For the love of the horses,
Celeste
I’m not sure wth I just read 
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Where’s the barf emoji?
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The ramblings of someone with maturity stunted at precisely 16 years old, who fancies herself an intellectual and tapped in (to whatever.)
Also, just gross. If you need a mantra forgiving yourself for going too far, you’re a gd abusive piece of garbage that needs help, not a herd of hapless Huns who eat your crap up.
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Blink twice if you need help Celeste
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When you’re that far in, you don’t know how far in you are. She’s not got the wherewithal to know that she should be fluttering those eyelashes for dear life.
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Ok first of all can I just say how much I despise the “on accident” part of this. I hate that phrase.
I hate how the whole thing is phrased. It’s yet more “us” vs “them” woven in a spellbinding, teen angst book poetic drivel. And it will sucker in so many people who are already on that “competition is evil” and “alternative medicine is the best” and “fluffy gets to say no because I am enlightened” BS train.
That’s just exhausting.
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Oh, my.
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How’s that for utter absolution. I hope the people who have allowed her to touch their horses can read and understand this sentence
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If there was nothing to see there in relation to the nerve release/pillar nonsense, there would be no reason to have your henchmen running around the internet challenging those who dissent.
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100 per cent of this bafflegab is aimed at the emotions of vulnerable humans who are emotionally vulnerable to this not particularly original line of shtick because they are insecure and carrying a lot of guilt and shame, feel inadequate, in both their general and horse lives. And likely are inadequate in their horse lives, because they lack a coherent knowledge base about health, nutrition and anatomy; lack developed skills in training, ground work and riding; and likely arrived at horses with poor overall skills of timing, balance, proprioception and horse intuition.
We all know these kinds of permanent beginners or adult beginners, and if they get the right mentors they can develop the skills. But that’s hard work and requires a clear mind and letting go of the anxiety that causes them to shatter off in multiple directions and lack focus.
This Celeste line is basically saying your intent is all that matters. And it isn’t. Because stupid or ignorant people can and do cripple or kill their horses while acting with good intent.
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How anyone could write that, without absolutely collapsing in laughter over their keyboard, is beyond me. It’s a bunch of foo-woo hogwash.
The fact that not only the writer, but her disciples, accept and embrace it, is mind boggling.
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Wait. I think she stole this line from my wedding vows. 
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It is similar in tone and content to a great deal of rubbish circulating in the lower ends of human human potential or fake therapeutic or MLM or other exploitative endeavors that draw on “new age” ( as we called it in the 1970s and 80s) language. Especially where everyone involved is assumed to be a quivering Special Petunia burdened with Complex PTSD and life long trauma which is causing them shame, guilt, rage, neediness, etc and paralyzing their lives
Obviously some people do fit this description but they do better with real therapy of some kind. But online chitchat is full of stuff very similar to Celeste and I’m sure she picked it up in other venues like her MLM Magick Potions business (forget what it was, diet supplements or herbal tea or non-essential oils?). This stuff is catnip to a certain slice of the population and they are familiar with it from many sources.
As with MLM, you sell the emotional boost from your verbiage, and the useless or even harmful product follows. The product is guaranteed to be rubbish (or else it would be in real stores) but the narrative is priceless (and totally false), usually about your own emotional rehabilitation in some way
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I’m immediately suspicious of any white woman with dreadlocks.
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While I do see your point, I dont agree 100%. Being devoted to your horse and yourhorse’s welfare is what motivates us. And charlatans are skilled in manipulating that very thing. There are many stable, intelligent people who have found themselves caught up in some kind of cult-like situation. And that is exactly what I term situations like TTHW. Trying to get out or going against leader (ie asking questions) is made very unpleasant.
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Yup, it’s like being shunned when all you’ve really known as home is the (insert name of cloistered religious denomination or name of cult). People are cliquey, social animals.
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Yes. I meant the way it’s phrased. It’s not really about what’s best for the horse. It’s targeted to appeal to a certain subset of emotionally needy horse owners. Celeste is marketing a program that is expensive and at best worthless, but possibly also harmful to the actual horse. But what she’s really selling is this fake trauma therapy for humans.
I don’t think honestly that many stable people end up in cult like situations, they can see the warning signs even in unfamiliar fields.
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