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Strides To Solutions uncovers how animal-assisted psychotherapy—from equine sessions to canine companionship—rewires the brain for lasting cognitive and emotional gains. Join host Esther Adams, a trauma-informed psychotherapist with a doctorate in psychology, as she shares powerful client stories, expert interviews, and hands-on exercises designed to strengthen attention, memory, executive function, and resilience. Tune in for actionable strategies that transform barnyard breakthroughs into real-world success. esthernava.substack.com
Esther Adams hosts Strides To Solutions, a health show with 129 episodes published.
Every rider who has ever tried to breathe through the anxiety at the in-gate knows the same frustrating truth. You pushed it down far enough to get through the test. But the riding that came out was not the riding you tr
There is a particular kind of discouragement that does not announce itself loudly. No bad fall, no dramatic exit. Just a rider who was excited eighteen months ago and has quietly stopped competing. If that sounds familia
If you have ever talked yourself out of entering a show, this episode was built for you. Not to push you back into the ring, but to show you, through actual peer-reviewed research, exactly what has been happening in your
You have been in horses long enough to know that something is shifting. Maybe it is the way your horse moves now compared to three years ago. Maybe it is your own body asking for more recovery time, more deliberate atten
You pay for the lesson. You trust the expertise. You defer to the authority. And somewhere between "prepare for the corner" and "that was entirely your fault," something happens that has nothing to do with your riding an
Under cognitive load, the brain preserves the capacity to respond correctly to what is immediately in front of it while quietly depleting the capacity to hold the broader context, build integrated understanding, and deve
You drove to the barn. You tacked up. You rode. But how much of you was actually there? For most amateur equestrians, the transition from a full professional and personal life to the quality of presence that riding deman
The racing heart, the tight stomach, the electric alertness before you enter the ring — none of that is anxiety yet. It becomes anxiety, or it becomes readiness, depending on a rapid demand-resource calculation your brai
The performance stress cascade does not build randomly. It follows a specific neurological sequence, an error signal that gets handed to an amplifying circuit instead of a regulatory one, attentional resources pulled bac
This is not a metaphor. The word you apply to physiological activation before a competition engages specific neural circuits, changes the action tendency that follows, and produces measurably different outcomes all befor
You've spent years perfecting your position, your timing, your feel. But there's one performance variable nobody at your barn is talking about and it's been quietly running the show the whole time. This episode breaks do
You know the feeling. It is somewhere between midnight and three in the morning. The show is tomorrow. Your heart is already going, your stomach is doing something unpleasant, and every reassurance you gave yourself befo
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how many hours you rode this week. It comes from something quieter and more persistent. The mental tab that stays open at work because part of you is a
Every warm-up ring is a social comparison environment. The hierarchy is visible, the evaluation is constant, and the gap between where you are and where the professionals are is impossible to ignore. What most riders don
There’s a word that quietly follows a lot of equestrians around. It shows up before introductions, softens accomplishments before they can be claimed, and apologizes for a passion before anyone has asked for an explanati
Open-skill sports don't just build faster bodies, they reshape the brain's prediction machinery. But what happens when uncertainty becomes too much, and can lab training ever match the chaos of real competition? This is
The neuroscience of pet attachment reveals we're using the same bonding circuitry for our animals as our children but the patterns aren't quite identical. What does this mean for how we understand love across species? Th
Sports psychology research shows that outcome-focused goals actually increase rider anxiety, which the horse feels and mirrors right back. The very goal that's supposed to motivate you is making your horse tense. This ep
New Year's resolutions fail for a reason and it's not your willpower. This episode breaks down why specific, measurable goals can actually backfire when life gets unpredictable, and what the research says about building
“I’m doing everything right—the hard work, the responsibility, the drive, the character—and nothing is moving.” If you’ve ever felt this specific agony, this isn’t about you being entitled or not trying hard enough. It’s
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Strides To Solutions is hosted by Esther Adams. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 129 episodes.
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