The Other Side Of Horsemanship : My Journey of Unlearning Cruelty & Healing Trauma –Shelby Dennis

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The Other Side of Horsemanship is a personal story about horses, learning and the difficult process of questioning practices that once seemed completely normal.

Shelby Dennis grew up immersed in the horse world. From an early age, she learned traditional ways of handling and training horses that often relied on pressure, punishment and the expectation that the horse should simply comply. For years, these methods were simply part of what horsemanship meant.

As her understanding of horses developed, however, Dennis began to question what she had been taught. She started looking more closely at behaviour, emotional responses and the ways horses communicate discomfort, fear and stress – and gradually recognised the impact that accepted training practices could have on the animals she cared about.

Her changing relationship with horses became intertwined with another journey. Horses had provided stability throughout difficult experiences in her own life, and learning to recognise trauma in them also led her to reflect on her own experiences and healing.

The result is not a conventional training manual. Instead, this is an honest account of changing deeply rooted beliefs, accepting past mistakes and learning to approach horses with greater empathy and awareness.

Dennis explores the parallels between human and equine trauma while reflecting on the culture of the horse world and the ways harshness can become normalised when it is repeatedly presented as necessary training.

A reflective and sometimes challenging read for anyone interested in horse welfare, ethical horsemanship and the process of changing the way we understand and work with horses.

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Author: Shelby Dennis
Language: English
ISBN: 9780228885641
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Publication year: 2022
Publication date: 9 November 2022
Publisher: Tellwell Talent
Dimensions: approx. 216 × 140 × 18 mm