Category: Connecting with a Cribber

  • The cycle of habitual reactions

    The cycle of habitual reactions

    Patience and Persistence is a requirement.. This is a short post mostly for me to record two days of habituated reactions. (14th and 15th July 2022). The videos are long and are a record of the different reactions I am seeing in Timmy as we progress. There seems to be a ritual at times as…

  • Applying, and working with, the nicotine patch

    Applying, and working with, the nicotine patch

    A look at replacing the cribbing behaviour with something else…. A nicotine patch is something that helps smokers break their habit once they have agreed within themselves that they would like to give up the habit. Is this idea potentially something that could help with cribbing? I am not sure. It is something that I…

  • Acknowledging the cribbing habit

    Acknowledging the cribbing habit

    Progressing with Timmy after releasing trauma and frustration and finding trust in the conversation.. We have released the trauma and processed. We have worked with the Tiger that was released and made peace with the frustration that emerged amongst other things. On the 4th July 2022 I decided to start to try and engage with…

  • Timmy: Working with the Tiger

    Timmy: Working with the Tiger

    I haven’t written for a while as I have been working on improving how I work with ‘Sharing Peace of Mind’, and understanding the different type of reactions that come up when peace cannot be obtained because of loads of other things that are going on that are not allowing peace in. For example pain,…

  • Timmy – A change

    Timmy – A change

    Small but significant… Today Timmy approached me and said “Can I have some of that peace please?” It is so lovely when they start coming to you for this instead of going to them to ask them to be peaceful. We have come to a different place. And after about 15 minutes he asked me…

  • Timmy : letting go of shared experiences

    Timmy : letting go of shared experiences

    A few days ago I had a very interesting experience with Timmy. We have been working together to try and find some level of peace with his cribbing. This time I put his head collar and rope on and asked him away from his cribbing post. We walked slowly to the barn. I was considering…

  • Timmy really needed to heal today..

    Timmy really needed to heal today..

    In the last two days, and particularly after the session yesterday with his leg and back, I have not observed Timmy cribbing. Isn’t that wonderful? I did wake up sensing I would need to reinforce his ability to find a present moment to help him with any emotional or physical issues instead of cribbing, but…

  • The ‘healing cribbing’ intention is being supported…

    The ‘healing cribbing’ intention is being supported…

    This morning I go out to throw some hay out for the herd and find Timmy limping badly. He appears to have hurt his front right leg. He is picking it up as though the knee feels sore. I checked for stones first just to make sure but it wasn’t that. It was a good…

  • Going back to the future

    Going back to the future

    I have had a sense with Timmy that I need to go back to go forward so to speak. He did not crib when he was born. When we are all born all we know in those first few moments is love. Then bodily functions kick in. So can I take him back to those…

  • Another cribbing conversation

    Another cribbing conversation

    I shared this 7 minute video (of a 25 minutes session) with my Timmy who has never stopped cribbing and windsucking despite a good diet, good shelter and unrestricted grazing and hay with The Trust Technique Practitioners and it was lovely to share something like this in a group of people who don’t immediately judge…