Women Riders Who Could and Did.Life Stories of Top Level Equestriennes. An inspirational book from author and life coach Karma Kitaj

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Women Riders Who Could and Did.Life Stories of Top Level Equestriennes.
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TheHorseStudio.com copyrighted review: The women whose stories of perseverance and courage are told here encompass some of the great riders of our time. They include frank interviews and life stories told in Karma's words with jockey Julie Krone, reiner Roberta McCarty, Centered Riding guru Sally Swift, TTouch expert Linda Tellington-Jones, endurance champion Valerie Kanavy, showjumper Anne Kursinski, dressage rider Jane Savoie, and several more. Karma weaves the stories of each woman in a captivating manner, showcasing each person's individual struggles and their determination to overcome obstacles. Their success being not only becoming ambassadors to the horse and to equestrian sport, but also the self knowledge and life lessons learned in the process. The ability to utilize difficulties to provide a 'leg up', the 'seize the day' attitude - are cornerstones of these womens success. That, and the ability to trudge on no matter what. While each story is of course unique you begin to pick up the common threads throughout the personal stories told. Karma has done a very good writing job here. She elicits central themes and focus for the reader and the result is a book that you will find hard to put down. Covering the multi-disciplines was a clever move. Love of horses is of course central to each person so the reader has a natural affinity with each rider/trainer, but hearing the story of an icon in your own disciplines is also fun. Karma is an experienced life coach and psychotherapist and didn't begin riding until age 50. Within the sport she found answers she has shared here for everyone. Go ahead and gift yourself. Be inspired. Recommended.

Biographical information: In publishing books about high-achieving people, Karma Kitaj (pronounced “Key-Tie”) has tied together a long-standing love of books with a family emphasis on lifelong learning. As a teenager, Karma devoured Great Books – Dostoevsky, Proust, Kafka. Her mother, an English teacher, grilled her on grammar so she could place first in state English and Latin competitions. In the mid-1980s, when she was turning 40, Karma, a licensed psychotherapist with a thriving private practice, returned to school to complete her Ph.D., responding to her elderly Viennese grandmother’s insistent question: “When are you going to finish your studies?” Karma began to use her reading and writing skills to write books, blogs, internet articles, become a certified life coach, and host a local TV show, depicting her love for discovering people’s unique life stories.

Always challenging herself for the next new learning spree, she began riding horses at age 50 when she and her husband bought a weekend property in the hills of central Massachusetts. Though she was not athletic as a kid and never saw a horse until she and her husband rented horses for trail rides on vacations as an adult, she immediately developed a passion for these graceful, athletic animals.

Soon she purchased her own horse, solidifying the commitment to horsemanship that led to the publication of her 2nd book, Women Riders Who Could… and Did: Life Stories of Top Level Equestriennes, based on photographs and interviews with 13 famous equestriennes from barrel racers to Olympic jumpers to jockeys. She traveled to remote ranches in Colorado, Texas, Hawaii, California, and Florida to seek out the women who best represent each riding discipline, a thrill for an equestrienne wannabe. Softcover. 208pp

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