Harness Coaching

Would really recommend Wellbeing with Horses workshops with Lizz (Harness Coaching) - these sessions are helping me so much in dealing with a long term illness M. E. and a lot of other stressors in my life. More...

Reviewed on Facebook

I know the benefits of being with horses and having a session with liz will benefit your life in ways that you will be realising in days weeks and years to come. I love self care and as I’ve gotten older I need lots to help me manage my life choices. More...

Reviewed on Facebook

I can highly recommend Harness Coaching.

I have attended 2 sessions of the adult wellbeing with horses workshop and thoroughly enjoyed them and learnt a lot already.

During the sessions i have attended we spent most of our time working on the ground with the horses in their field learning about the horses behaviour, listening to own own bodies and our own energy and eri g how this can affect the horses then learning how to manage our feelings. We also practise mindfulness to help calm any anxiety.

After working with the horses we come back to the yard to enjoy a cuppa, reflect on the session and share some experiences and coping strategies. It is great to talk to others and share things 😊

Lizz is very friendly, warm and welcoming and has already helped me learn new coping strategies.

I am also enjoying learning more about horse behaviour and love integrating with the herd.

They really are fantastic at what they do and can offer 121 or group coaching for adults and children whether you are a horsey person or non horsey person. More...

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Reply from Harness Coaching

Thank you for this lovely review its a great pleasure to work with people who are taking action to help themselves reduce anxiety and build up their resilience to stress. Looking forward to our next session. X

Liz was great, , easy to talk to , helped me to see things more clearly by de cluttering my head .

Reviewed on Facebook

I got in contact with Lizz due to stress and anxiety I was suffering with as a result which I thought was due to my relationship. The first meeting I bet Lizz thought what on Earth has she walked into with both me and my partner bickering.
She very quickly realised that we should have separate coaching to stop the ping pong affect.
I d been working with Lizz now for a few months on my self esteem, condfidence and general thought process.
I’ve realised that the initial problem I went to her for was not the deep rooted cause of my problems it was actually something that was very traumatic to me that happened over ten years ago and I didn’t realise that it was making me feel angry against the world and as a consequence making me have unhelpful thoughts against myself, sort of a self sabotage in a way.
I have learned to find inner peace now by using simple techniques that Lizz had taught me and to retrain my brain and it’s negative thought pattern.
It’s still work in progress but with Lizz’s continual support both with one to one and email I know I have the support in her at any time if I need it.
She is empathetic, caring and above all unsderstands me better than I actually do myself. I’ll soon change that though as I’m learning to find me again and I’ve never really understood what that actual phrase has meant before neither “living in the moment”.
It’s work that needs to be done by yourself of course alongside Lizz’s support but if listened to and understood properly then I can fully recommend Lizz as your potential life coach.
She is very approachable and actually does care in what she does for a living, she has the patience of a saint and all I can say is a huge thank you Lizz for all of your help and ongoing support.
It’s my partners birthday this week and I’m actually planning and getting excited in treating her, so there is proof in the pudding if ever I’ve seen it.
Don’t ever be afraid to ask for help, we all need a little from time to time and I can say hand on heart I don’t really know where I would be today without my support network and Lizz’s coaching skills. Don’t suffer in silence, please give Lizz a try, what have you got to lose?
Best wishes my friends.
Jan More...

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Reply from Harness Coaching

Thank you Jan for that heartfelt review that went into alot of detail which im sure will help people understand how i might help them as well. X

'I arranged to see Lizz after seeing a Facebook post by a mutual friend. At the time, I had been trying, with varying degrees of success and failure, to deal with an ongoing problem with stress and anxiety. Having tried ‘traditional’ counselling and medication without much sustained improvement, I was keen to try a different approach. I will confess to not really knowing what the sessions were going to be like, and whether they would make any difference, however, I really did have nothing to lose, so I decided to give it my best shot!

On the day of the first session I was really quite anxious – I liked horses, in the way that every girl who grew up in the late 70’s wanted to ride Black Beauty – but I had practically no experience of horses, save for an occasional donkey ride at Blackpool as a youngster!! So, to try and deal with my anxiety, I was going to meet someone completely new, in a place I’d never been to, to work with animals I had no experience of – sounds great doesn’t it!! Straight away Lizz put me at ease – she explained the process and a bit about her own background, as we simply walked around the edge of fields with horses in – nothing too scary to begin with. Lizz talked me through a kind of ‘mindfullness’ technique, steadying my breathing, becoming aware of my body, my surroundings - all of which I could feel start to make me feel calmer. I have since learnt to use this technique (albeit sometimes in shortened form) to help me deal with stressful situations, or when I can feel that I might start to feel overwhelmed. It helps give me breathing space, a pause, before just reacting to whatever is happening - this has been very valuable in helping me to control the effects of anxiety. Now, there is an interesting thought... in the past I have tried to deal with the problem by removing the anxiety - which is almost always not possible. Instead, with Lizz's help, I have learnt that anxiety itself is not the problem, it is the way in which we (I) react to it which is problematic. Anxiety is a manifestation of a number of symptoms, physical reactions and responses in the body, designed to help us run away from sabre toothed tigers, or whatever else might be chasing us looking for its dinner. What I now understand is that for various reasons, our bodies now react to all sorts of situations in this way - leaving us in an almost permanent state of readiness to flee...no wonder sometimes things get on top of us.

In my own case, for many years, personal circumstances meant I lived in this constant hyper-anxious state - always waiting for the next thing to go wrong, the next problem I was going to have to solve. By talking about some of the horses, the way they react, the effects of living in this hyper-anxious state really became clear to me. What also became clear was that umpteen years of living like this was not going to be undone in a couple of hours in a field with a horse - this was going to take time. Through working with Lizz and the horses I have gained a much deeper understanding of how mind and body work together ( and sometimes against each other) and how the physical can affect the emotional and vice versa.

I am not 'cured' of anxiety - I still get anxious, the difference is that most of the time now I can moderate the physical effects, and buy my brain the breathing space it needs to find a sensible solution to whatever is causing the stress. It's not perfect, I am still learning, but I do feel much calmer, and less controlled by the anxiety More...

Working with Lizz has proved to be very useful in helping me think through changes I face at work and home, and I have really benefited from her support. Her insight has provided that alternative perspective to help me approach and manage the process of change. Sessions with Lizz have enabled me to voice my fears and doubts and realise that sometimes we can be our own worst enemy and almost pre-empt scenarios that we don’t want by giving them attention. I have worked on time management issues, (lack of) confidence in the workplace, and getting conflicts around pressure in my job and challenges at home into a better balance. Lizz is very understanding and easy to talk to but also not afraid to question or challenge my ideas when required. This is a good thing as it provokes me to think more deeply about my reactions and not fall into old patterns of behaviour which do not necessarily serve me best. More...

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Reply from Harness Coaching

Thanks Anna for this 5* review. It was great to work with you across the table and walk & talk sessions where we were able to really focus on becoming more unstuck in thinking around possible new ideas and solutions. Good Luck with you new ventures. X