MEET THE EXPERT
After overcoming her own riding confidence issues using NLP, Tracey Cole started a mindset and mental performace business in 2013. She is a trainer and master coach of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy, specialising in equestrianism. She runs training and coaching sessions via Zoom from her home in the Staffordshire Moorlands. An avid horse lover, she owns two mares.
SOME RIDERS HOLD on to certain habits and experiences in their minds and don’t seem to be able to let go. Perhaps they tend to lose focus when they’re competing. Maybe they once had a riding accident and the thoughts of it just won’t disappear. Some simply can’t get their horse’s occasional tricky behaviour out of their minds, and those ‘will he do anything wrong’ notions while out on a hack