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Mandy McConechy

Mandy McConechy

Founder of The SHIIFT Method and PainLess Equestrian Therapy; trauma-informed practitioner specializing in nervous system release for people and horses

Jul 13, 2026

18:08
What similarities are there between the way people and our subconscious protects ourselves and the way horses protect themselves? Does that make sense?
18:22
Yeah, absolutely.
18:23
What I've found is that they're very, very similar because the nervous system is pretty much the same in both.
18:33
The only difference, as far as I'm aware so far, is that we create stories.
18:42
And we dwell on things.
18:43
We obviously can't tell what horse is actually thinking.
18:47
But, you know, when we have something that's sore, we're constantly going every time we move it, oh, that hurt.

26 MINS LATER

44:59
And so when you're talking about releasing these emotions or feeling these emotions, Are you manually going through and doing this? Or is this, what does it look like in practice for you to work with animals that struggle, humans or horses that are struggling with a weakness of sorts?

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