More To The Story

Today on More to the Story Podcast: A Conversation with Lasell Bartlett — Horses, Healing, and Becoming the Designated Calm PersonToday I’m talking with my client Lasell Jaretzki Bartlett, author of Getting Along with Rusty: Horses Healing and Therapeutic Riding, Mostly a Memoir and three accompanying workbooks: Becoming the Designated Calm Person, and Sensing Our Groundedness.Lasell integrates decades of experience in body–mind awareness, somatic experiencing, clinical social work, and therapeutic riding into a body of work that helps people understand themselves, their nervous systems, and the power of grounded presence. In this episode, she shares the evolution of her writing process, how her memoir emerged from what she originally thought would be a how-to book, and how she built trust in her voice as an author.We also talk about her writing rhythm, her accountability structure, her relationship with divine inspiration vs. discipline, and what it means to “stand on the horizon” of authorship after years o