The Rider Confidence Launch Bundle
Launch bundle · $59 until 30 November
You love riding. So why does your body tighten up before you've even got on?
The Rider Confidence Toolkit and the Edge Performance Diary work together to retrain the fear response, so you can ride the horse in front of you instead of the one your nerves invent.
Toolkit delivered instantly · Diary posted to you · Every discipline, plus an Any Sport edition
Sound familiar?
Fear rarely looks dramatic. Usually it looks like this.
If any of those landed, you're in very good company. Most of the riders I work with, from first-time riders to international competitors, have felt at least one of them. And almost all of them assumed it meant something was wrong with them.
Ready to swap the knot in your stomach for a plan?
Start feeling settled · $59Toolkit in your inbox in minutes · Launch price until 30 November
What's actually going on
Your nervous system is trying to keep you safe. It just needs better information.
When something has felt risky on a horse, your brain's threat system makes a note: this moment is dangerous. The next time you're in a similar spot, it fires before you've had a chance to think. Your breath shortens, your seat tightens, your hands grab. Your horse feels all of it.
That response is learned, so it can be retrained. Your brain updates its threat map through experience: each time you meet a tricky moment, stay regulated and come out the other side fine, the alarm gets a little quieter.
That takes two things:
1. Tools you can use in the moment to calm the threat response so you can stay in the ride.
2. Evidence that sticks. Your brain has a negativity bias, so it holds onto the stop and the spook and quietly forgets the good rides. Unless you deliberately record your wins, your progress leaks away.
Most riders only ever get one of those. This bundle gives you both.
Give your nervous system the evidence it's been missing.
Get the tools and the diary · $59Usually $93 · Everyday Rider edition in Charcoal is pre-selected, and you can switch on the next page
What you get
Two halves of one system
Digital · instant download
The Confidence Toolkit
What to do in the moment. The short version of what I do with riders and athletes in 1:1 sessions, in a 13-page guide you can print or fill in on a tablet.
- Why fear feels so loud, explained in plain language so it stops feeling personal
- Fear or caution? A traffic-light check so you push through discomfort and still respect real risk
- Ready to Ride, a 90-second routine before you get on
- BEST, for steadying yourself when a ride wobbles
- The confidence ladder, to break a big goal into small steps you can take this week
- Coach-style self-talk and the Confidence Bank to keep your proof
Physical · posted to you
The Edge Performance Diary
Where the progress sticks. Six months of daily pages built on the same psychology I use with my clients, so your wins become evidence your brain can't ignore.
- A daily place to log your wins, in your own handwriting
- Daily prompts from performance psychology that build self-awareness gradually
- Weekly and monthly planning pages to turn your confidence ladder into a plan
- Step-by-step goal setting with check-ins every three months
- Daily quotes to anchor you when training gets hard
- Not horse-specific, so it works for any sport, any age
- Choose Charcoal or Dusty Pink
How it works
A simple loop, repeated, is how confidence gets built
Your next ride could be the first one in your Confidence Bank.
Start your first loop this week$59 launch bundle · Toolkit delivered instantly
Choose your edition
Start where you actually are
You'll pick your edition and diary colour on the next page.
Everyday Rider
For feeling settled and like yourself again: getting on, hacking out or alone, cantering in the open, riding with people watching, or coming back after a spook or fall.
Choose Everyday Rider →Moving Up
For stretching your comfort zone: jumping without pulling, bigger fences, a new horse, a first rally, clinic or show, or going up a level.
Choose Moving Up →Performance Rider
For riders who compete, from a first outing to the top of the sport, who want their confidence to hold under pressure.
Choose Performance Rider →Any Sport
For athletes outside the saddle: BMX, rugby, football, dance, tennis, running and more. Written for young athletes as well as adults.
Choose Any Sport →Not just for riders
Know a young athlete who'd benefit from this?
The nervous system that tightens a rider's hands in front of a fence is the same one that freezes a footballer before a penalty, makes a dancer blank on stage, or keeps a BMX rider from dropping in. Riders often spot it in their kids, siblings or friends before anyone else does.
The Any Sport edition takes the same tools and puts them in the language of any sport, for any age. The diary was never horse-specific: it's a performance diary for anyone who trains, competes or performs.
If your son plays rugby, your daughter dances or your partner runs, this works for them too. You choose the edition at checkout.
Get the Any Sport bundleWho it's from
I'm Sav. I ride, and I treat riders and athletes.
I'm a performance therapist and a 4* FEI eventer. I know what it is to sit on a horse with your heart in your throat, and I've spent my career learning how the brain gets athletes into that state and, more importantly, how it gets them out. Alongside riders, I work with boxers, surfers, BMX riders, runners, tennis players and athletes from many other sports.
Everything in this bundle comes from that one-to-one work, condensed into something you can use on your own, starting this week.
BSc(Psych) · PGCert(Neuro) · MSc(Psych) · HDip.CBH · Certified in EMDR
The launch bundle
Everything you need to start, for less than the diary and toolkit separately
I'm launching the Toolkit with a launch price as a thank-you to the riders and athletes who come in first. On 1 December, both go back to full price.
That's $34 off the two bought separately.
Get the launch bundleQuestions
Before you decide
Which edition should I choose?
Go with the one that describes where you are right now, not where you'd like to be. If getting on or hacking out is the hard part, start with Everyday Rider. If you're comfortable at home but stepping up is the sticking point, choose Moving Up. If you compete and want your head to hold under pressure, choose Performance Rider. For any sport outside the saddle, choose Any Sport.
I don't compete. Is this still for me?
Yes. Most of the riders I work with are everyday riders, and the Everyday Rider edition was written for exactly that. It works for any discipline and any level.
Can I buy this for my child, or someone who doesn't ride?
Yes. Choose the Any Sport edition. It's written for athletes of any sport and works well for young athletes. With younger children, it works best when a parent goes through the tools with them the first few times. The diary suits any sport and any age.
How do I receive it?
The Toolkit is a PDF, delivered instantly after checkout with a copy sent to your email. Your diary is posted to you.
How much time does it take?
Ready to Ride takes about 90 seconds before you get on, and logging a win takes a minute or two afterwards. It's built to fit around the training you're already doing.
Is this therapy?
These are educational resources teaching practical psychological skills for riders and athletes. They're not a substitute for individual therapy. If a fear is tied to a serious fall, injury or something that's lodged deeper, 1:1 performance therapy may be the better place to start, and you're welcome to get in touch.
Start riding the horse in front of you.
The Toolkit and the Diary, together, for $59 until 30 November.
Get the launch bundleLaunch price ends 30 November · Back to $93 from 1 December