The Zombies Letting Go to Start Over

By Cat Friske

This is the second book to date of my experiences in learning how to help others change, communicate, train, experience and move with the horses in their lives. As companions, steeds, and mirror reflections of the subconscious habits one has, how to become aware and change them with the ripple effect seen in all areas of their lives.

Finally, after listening to the voice inside of me that has been hounding incessantly for me to open up and write down the tale of “The Zombies” those of us who walk through life acting, living, doing, any and everything to please all others... first. I share my experiences in understanding this once confusing maze which is life to so many. With the realization that has come after so many years of teaching, writing, riding, sharing, and coaching so many zombie’s I have encountered of both kinds, horses and people, and how I have assisted them to change. What I have learned from my own experiences in understanding how they are created, and what can be done to set them free.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cat Friske
• Release date: Aug 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301077076

Cat Friske

Born in San Antonio, Texas to attending college at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas where 36 years ago Cat found a place where she could have and keep a horse for $10.00 a month. She bought herself the first horse she could afford to finally enjoy her biggest desire. Since then she has been riding, training, trading, and learning any and everything she possibly could to be her best at assisting horses, owners, riders, and others to find, hone and polish their own unique ability, signature and style.Her desire to learn and understand horses sent her searching to work with and in several different disciplines, with many various types of trainers and horses. She has coached many students from their beginning rides, to major wins, or simple, safe, trail rides. Always available to assist anyone who is interested in furthering their education and awareness with horses and life.She lives with an open mind, a quick wit and a keen eye of observation to delve out and share the easiest, safest, most effective, and fun way to communicate with horses, owners, friends and acquaintances. Coaching others to experience and imagine the possibilities in every moment and the joys of seeing an animal and its owner working in partnership.She is currently training and conditioning her horses for barrel and pole competitions, raising her youngest son, with Freckles the POA horse, their dogs and cats while coaching at home, on the road, by phone, and email while writing her next book of analogies and tips from learning experiences with the horses and people she continually interacts with.Changing lives, one horse, one person, one moment at a time!

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The Zombies

Letting Go to Start Over

Cat Friske

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Copyright 2013 by Cat Friske at Smashwords

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Produced and published by Cathryn Friske.

Table of Contents

Introduction ~ Learning and Unlearning

Part One: Zombie People

Chapter One ~ The Beginning Years

Chapter Two ~ Injuries, Books and Neighbors

Chapter Three ~ Ahh Junior High

Chapter Four ~ Summer of Horses

Chapter Five ~ Then Came High School

Part Two: Zombie Horses

Chapter One ~ The Beginning

Chapter Two ~ That First Spring

Chapter Three ~ Gelding, Men, and Saddles

Chapter Four ~ The Turn Out Years

Part Three: The Patience Tree

Chapter One ~ College, Teachers and Chic

Chapter Two ~Emotional and Physical Wrecks

Chapter Three ~ Putting Pieces Together

Chapter Four ~ It All Unravels

Chapter Five ~ The Steps Back

About the Author

Change

It is hot, it is dry, it is quiet

No breeze to move the air,

Not a sound in the stifling heat waves,

Everything so parched and bare

A darkness fills the skyline

Lightening flashing everywhere

The wind in a whipping frenzy

Things blowing all about

A drop or two touch dryness,

The ground shudders from the drought

The threat in the rumbling storm clouds

The light dimmed as the black wins out

But the rain is slow and healing

Relief as it quenches the earth’s thirst

The pastures lapping up the moisture

Each drop just as important as the first

Filling the ponds, lakes and streams

Perfectly stopping before they burst

The wonder of life’s presence

Each moment a new sense of awe

Things can be changed so quickly

Like in ones understanding of a law

Depending upon each interpretation

When one gets a different aha!

Cat Friske

8-25-2013

Thank you… Brent

for reminding me

I matter

Introduction

Learning and Unlearning

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.

There comes a leap in consciousness,

call it intuition or what you will,

and the solution comes to you

and you don’t know how or why.

~ Albert Einstein

The perfect quote to start off my story… I am currently 57 years of age and have been learning, riding, teaching, training and coaching people and their horses since I finally got my first horse at 21 years old. My life has been an immense journey of many twists, trials, explosions, drops, and victories of trying to understand and live my purpose.

Much the same as what most of us our deliberately, knowingly, or haphazardly doing in the search of the elusive Holy Grail of being the perfect human, whatever that may have been taught, told or explained to us by others… or to be amazing, stand out, shine in all of our glory as an example for those around us. Though many of us fail incredibly short, often enough to want to quit… except for this tiny idea of hope that keeps niggling in the back of our consciousness, keeps whispering "Yes you can, you are special, you have value, and life is supposed to be good." So you get up and try again…

I have done this repeatedly, each and every time, even when it has gotten so completely out of whack, terrifying, scary, dangerous and harmful to me. With the feeling of every one pointing their fingers at me, to tell me all about why it was my fault because I did not listen and follow everything they told me I should do… down to the letter.

Finding me finally, today, listening to the voice inside of me that has been hounding incessantly for me to open up and write down the tale of The Zombies my new understanding of this maze which is life. A realization that has come after so many years of writing, riding, sharing, and coaching of the many zombie’s I have encountered. What I have learned in my own experiences to understand what created them, and what can be done to set them free. Though these stories can be taken quite literally as a mirror reflection of me, the horses and many of the people I interact with. We teach most what we need to learn.

So to begin…

Part One: Zombie People

Chapter One

The Beginning Years

I have some idea in mind, but the result is

always different from what I really had in mind.

~Raphael Soyer

Ahh the simple childhood… my recollections of my first few years are sketchy at best, except for the day in church with my family at about age two or three where I remember my mother’s immense concern over the convulsing reactions my body was displaying as they quickly took me to the back of church. Laying me down on the floor, as people were trying to hold down my quaking, contorting body and someone was trying to force open my mouth to get my tongue back up from back in my throat… I then found myself above the entire scene. Watching all of the struggling, frightened onlookers as I felt these presences behind me, and there were the most amazing three beings, glowing and emanating this incredible love, understanding and warmth. As my eyes became aware of the brighter light behind them that was so inviting, which as I moved toward it to look closer with this desire to feel more of the warmth of unconditional love emanating from it. One of the beings stepped between it and me and told me It is not your time and I needed to go back because Because you have much to do.

Whereas I turned back toward the commotion below me, I suddenly felt myself sucked back into my body below, gasping for air and then being held so very tightly for still being alive and breathing. I have no other memories of anything else directly afterwards of that day or year. Though the memory has come up many times