MEET THE EXPERT
AMANDA KIRTLAND-PAGE is a hypnotherapist, confidence coach and NLP practitioner, specialising in helping riders.
COULD IT BE that your frustrating and confusing loss of confidence has its root in your past? This wouldn’t be so unusual explains confidence coach Amanda Kirtland-Page.
For some, it only takes one event, (often traumatic), for others, it’s an accumulation of many, sometimes seemingly insignificant incidents. In these cases, it’s easy to understand why confidence becomes an issue, and there are many ways to get back into the saddle.
“However,” says Amanda, “sometimes riders who had a traumatic accident have little or no memory of what happened. In an event of trauma, our brain is hardwired for the fight-or-flight response, but sometimes this is at the cost of processing and loading those…