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StephanieSpeech and Language SpecialistIs well the same as happy?The first thing is bare feet on the grass.The smell of summer and winter evenings, whenI feel grounded, rooted.… Being on a horse, being in the weather, being outside.My work is all in the head. With riding it isn’tphysical, it’s about emotion and communicatingthrough your body. It’s about going within meto calm down and communicate with the horse.Thinking without having to use words.I realised one day that my body and the horse wereall one, there was no barrier, and then I got it; youcan use your breathing to slow the horse and calmthe horse. With babies, you transmit your feelingsto the baby. I got that from working with peoplewith severe brain injury; using your body to feelhow they are, just being with them, seeing wherethe tension is and helping to ease it throughwashing and normal activities.In the book, The Inner Game of Tennis it sayssomething like: don’t tell your body how to hit theball, tell your body where you want the ball to go.I enjoyed work once I got out of working in a medicalmodel, when I started working with a social model.Our job’s about giving people choices.10