Oh honey, you are such an inspiration.
I would probably break if I rode a horse and I used to love it too. Some kids just went past and teased the horse in the paddock across from us, and it was galloping and pacing and bucking like mad, so I went and soothed it just by standing with it and talking to it, you know, that quiet and low: sssh, it's all right, it's all right. Me and the horse, just talking. She calmed down so fast. Maybe I need to talk to my own inner horse!
I'm learning to adapt. I'm definitely not kicking and bucking and snorting as much as I would have a few years ago!
Thanks for always being so supportive x