Parenting About ADD, ADHD and HOPE!

WOW! What an amazing afternoon spent with Danielle Herb yesterday. My three year old daughter McKenna, her friend and mother and I traveled to Danielle's farm to find out what the buzz is about this young woman. What we went there intending, was to have a great time and introduce Amelia, McKenna's friend, to horses and to acquire some inspirational video.

What we left with in the few short hours we were there, was a great time, new friends, a renewed belief in the lifestyle Authentic Families are inspired to live and tools we can use with our children for the rest of their lives! Yep, in the process of learning about Danielle, we learned so much about ourselves!

Danielle was demonstrating one of the principles she teaches in her Mastery Course. I asked if she would demonstrate on my daughter (because I KNEW the power of what she was telling me....hey I know a good thing when I see it). Danielle demonstrated that the horse can pick up on the energy of the rider. So when you are thinking and exuding happy, fun energy- the horse would walk forward. When you either got real sad and icky, or you centered and relaxed your energy- the horse would stop.

This exercise was so timely for me, because my daughter has been having a hard time settling down at night and falling asleep.... three hours every night for more than the past week. When we would talk about her settling down, she would often say she did not know how. We would tap (which really did help), we did imagery where I would walk her through each area of her body and relax the muscles in that area, we did massage....

I know that when she could FEEL the horse react to her energy, we would have an event we could go back and say remember when you were on the horse and... I used it twice today and it worked both times. She was able to tell me what the horse would do with her energy right then. We could then talk about why the cat was running away from her instead of letting her be pet when McKenna was not relaxed. So cool!

I look forward to sharing the videos with all you. I was also to have a great conversation with Danielle and her mom where we discuss her homeschooling journey... I know many of you will connect with what they say!

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