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What It Means to Love Something—And Have That Love Be Enough
FINDING PURPOSE
A Life Managing the Passion, Compulsion, and Borderline Addiction Called Horses
CHELSEA CANEDY
Trafalgar Square Books is pleased to announce the release of Finding Purpose by Chelsea Canedy.
“Following a passionate path usually isn’t easy,” writes horsewoman Canedy, in this uninhibited and deeply thoughtful memoir tracing her experiences in the horse world and how they have impacted her development as a competitor, a teacher, a wife, and a mother. From falls, poor rides, and heart-wrenching divorce to connection, opportunity, and transformative friendships, Canedy digs deep to identify themes that not only tell her unique story but speak to the reader’s own. Writing with the same natural feel she found at an early age in the saddle, Canedy coaxes us to grasp the broader truths that working with horses can so often unveil.
Reminiscences both tender and painful prove a catalyst for deeper exploration of what it is we are really looking for when we pursue a passion—and what it is to be human at every stage of that journey. Canedy’s sensitive retelling of the events that molded her are hewn from the barn and arena, but her perceptive questions about existence, both in its most general sense and its most nuanced, offer any reader valuable lessons in true and lasting personal growth. Canedy bravely shares the painful mistakes she has made with both horses and people, the intense guilt that has accompanied these transgressions, and how learning to accept setbacks and starting over “the best way you know how” is sometimes, maybe, what gets you where you want to go.
CHELSEA CANEDY stands apart as a competitive rider who combines traditional training with natural horsemanship principles, groundwork, liberty work, and R+ training, and has a reputation as someone who understands how horses think and learn. For many years, Canedy worked in social service, and this firsthand experience in practical psychology and self-reflection underlines her ability to build the relationships with horse and rider needed to consistently improve performance. Canedy has several Equestrian Masterclasses with Noelle Floyd, and she is a popular podcast guest, clinician, and presenter, appearing at festivals and expos around the country. Canedy and her family are currently based in Wales, Maine, on a beautiful historic property called Unexpected Farm, and she spends winters in Ocala, Florida (chelseacanedy.com).
328 pp • 6 x 9 • 23 color photos • 978 1 64601 230 5 • $26.95
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