Within each day, sometimes moment to moment, the wind changes. Blowing first this way, then that. Rushing straight across our path, or swirling around us. Sometimes it is so quiet we don’t even notice the air around us, other days it threatens to topple us. Whenever I...
Our Compass in the Complexity: Mindfulness, Regulation, and the Path to Flow
by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, LPC, NBCC | Feb 3, 2026 | Personal Growth
By Bettina Shultz-Jobe and Kate Naylor In my last reflection, Complicated or Complex: Making Sense of a World in Distress, we explored the shared sense of disorientation many are carrying. We named how exhausting it is to treat a complex, living and relational system...
Complicated or Complex: Making Sense of a World in Distress
by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, LPC, NBCC | Feb 3, 2026 | Personal Growth
We are living in an important time in history, a time that makes me feel angry, scared, and hopeful all at once - it is certainly a time of tremendous change. There is a growing pressure to act publicly and decisively. To say the right thing. To show up in the right...
Letting Go of Control: Reclaiming Choice in Healing Relationships
by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, LPC, NBCC | Jan 20, 2026 | Basics of Natural Lifemanship, Personal Growth
Many of us enter helping relationships with a sincere desire to be supportive. We want things to improve. We want movement, relief, or clarity to arrive for the people and animals we care about. Over time, that desire can quietly shift into an impulse to manage...
What Mud Teaches Us About Moving Forward
by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, LPC, NBCC | Jan 15, 2026 | Equine Assisted Trainings, Personal Growth
We often imagine flow as something smooth, a sense of ease or a feeling that things are finally clicking into place without effort or friction. Yet lived experience tells a different story. True flow, especially in therapeutic work, often emerges when things feel...
Begin with the Body: A New Way to Start the Year
by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, LPC, NBCC | Jan 5, 2026 | Natural Lifemanship Events, Personal Growth
January arrives with a chorus of invitations to reset, resolve, improve, and become something new. We are encouraged to look ahead, to set goals, and to decide who we will be by the end of the year. But many of us seem to forget that January is also the heart of...
For the Sake of Love: What the Christmas Story Teaches Us About Vulnerability
by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, LPC, NBCC | Dec 16, 2025 | Personal Growth
Christmas has always held me. I love the lights, the music, the excess, the nostalgia. I love the way the season invites joy and grief to sit side by side without asking either one to leave. I love the familiar rituals and the childlike wonder, and the sacred and the...
True Gratitude Makes Room for Compassion
by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, LPC, NBCC | Nov 23, 2025 | Applied Principles, Personal Growth
Every year around Thanksgiving, we’re reminded to be grateful. We write lists, share reflections, and pause to notice what’s good in our lives. Gratitude is an important practice. It helps us slow down, shift perspective, and strengthen our sense of connection. But...
Why Movement Matters: The Body’s Role in Equine-Assisted Healing
by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, LPC, NBCC | Jun 26, 2025 | Basics of Natural Lifemanship, Case Studies, Equine Assisted Trainings, Personal Growth
When it comes to equine-assisted services, we often focus on the profound emotional and psychological breakthroughs that happen when humans and horses connect. We celebrate the moments when a client finds their voice, builds confidence, or processes trauma through...










