WELCOME TO THE SELF-HELP ZONE 

Here you’ll find lots of ideas, tips and techniques to help you look after and take care of your mental health and well-being. Many overlap and can combined for greater effect.

Before you cry, ‘I’m too busy to do anything else!’, this isn’t about doing more or extra things. This is about using what you already have and do, differently, to get more out of them via making simple and subtle changes that could just make that difference between maintaining, or even improving your mental health, and struggling.

As a rider, being with horses already gives you an advantage over many people. Your profession, hobby, pastime involves exercise, fitness, being in the open air, in the countryside, and with magnificent animals – the horse – all things that are proven to maintain and enhance well-being.

However, even in such an environment, life’s ‘ups and downs’ occur which can affect well-being in many ways. What could improve your ability to manage life’s stresses, the unexpected or build resilience.

Read on for some self-help ideas.