...Growing up in a blended family as the youngest of the first batch of kids, I often found myself trying to keep the peace, fit in, and feel like enough. Horses gave me something I didn’t find anywhere else—they gave me a place to breathe, belong, and just be myself.

Over the years, that love of horses grew into JT Ranch, where my husband and I have spent more than 25 years helping people grow through horses. What started as riding lessons and horse training became so much more. Our mission has always been simple: we develop people as well as riders.

I’ve spent decades as a riding instructor, horse trainer, business owner, wife, and mom. From the outside, it may have looked like I had it all together. But there were seasons where I felt exhausted, disconnected, stuck, and unsure of who I was becoming. Like many women, I spent years struggling with comparison, body image, feeling overlooked, and wondering if I was ever really enough.

One of the hardest seasons came after moving from the home we had lived in for 20 years. I lost the community and connection I had known, and I realized how much of myself I had poured into everyone else while losing pieces of who I was in the process.

About eight years ago, everything started to shift.

Through my own health journey, health coaching, personal development, and a deeper relationship with God, I began to realize that I did not have to stay stuck in the same version of myself. I could change. I could heal. I could grow.

Health coaching gave me tools, but it also gave me something even deeper: the opportunity to coach and challenge myself while helping others do the same. Faith became less about guilt and “shoulds” and more about building a personal relationship with God and knowing I was never truly alone.

What I also started noticing was that when people struggled with their horses, it usually was not really about the horse.It was about fear. Confidence. Trust. Feeling unseen. Wanting control. Not believing they were enough.

Horses have an incredible way of mirroring what is happening inside of us. They do not judge. They do not care about what you look like, what your past has been, or what title you carry. They simply respond to who you are in the moment.

And because of that, they help us see the parts of ourselves we may have been avoiding for years.

Coupling all of this together has been my vision and that’s what we are offering to the world through our retreats, 8 week program and membership!

Where do you see yourself fitting into BECOMING?