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Relatively Stable

Kimberly Carter

In Relatively Stable we delve into the journeys of those who have faced challenges, uncovered their passions, and discovered resilience along the way. Whether you"re here for the stories, seeking inspiration, or simply drawn to the wisdom we glean from horses—and life—you’re in the right place. Let’s dive into the narratives that remind us how to stay relatively stable, no matter what comes our way. stableroots.substack.com

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17:25

The Ghosts of This Farm Speak to Me

Relatively Stable ·

2025/10/09

In this episode, I read my latest Stable Roots piece, The Ghosts of This Farm Speak to Me — a story about loss, land, and what it means to finally arrive. It begins with Sheba, the brave black mare who didn’t survive the move to our new farm, and unfolds into what she left behind: a lesson in trust, belonging, and the ways the land holds us when we let it.This episode isn’t just about grief. It’s about listening—about what the body knows, what the land remembers, and how even in heartbreak, the

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10:44

The Safe I Can't Unlock

Relatively Stable ·

2025/09/18

Every day the farmhouse is emptier as the storage containers are packed.What does it mean to move something that feels fixed?What does it mean to move a whole herd, to pack stories like boxes, and to listen for what the new land will say back?This piece traces the weeks leading into our first wedding anniversary, the closing on Lavender Hill, and the beginning of Bramblewood’s move. It holds anxiety, cats in boxes, and white oaks with roots turned skyward. It is about leaving and arriving, about the

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9:22

Hands on the Rope

Relatively Stable ·

2025/09/11

If you’ve been following our journey, you know Bramblewood Stables is in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime move to Lavender Hill farm after losing our lease of 20 years. Keeping this herd and this mission intact is not possible without collective effort. This week’s episode is a voiceover of my latest piece, moving through four sections: The Herd, The Land, The Work, and The Hope.It’s about what carries forward when everything else shifts—about belonging in relationship, in time, and in continuity

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12:28

Hearing our Ghosts

Relatively Stable ·

2025/09/04

Hearing Our Ghosts: Walking the Threshold from Grief to HopeThis episode is a voiceover essay on living at the edge of loss and still choosing to move forward. From my mother’s kitchen therapy sessions, to memories of my grandfather, to the community angels helping Bramblewood find a forever home — it’s about how grief can open the way toward action, clarity, and hope.In the coming weeks, I’ll be opening a new coaching option, From Grief to Hope, for those ready to walk this passage together.To

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14:26

4.3 Acres of Farmland Disappear Every Minute

Relatively Stable ·

2025/08/28

🎙️ Relatively Stable — Special Voiceover EpisodeThis episode is different. It’s not an interview or a roundtable conversation. It’s a voiceover—me, in the quiet of the barn, speaking from the middle of a transition that has turned my world upside down.Three weeks ago, I learned that Bramblewood, the farm we’ve called home for twenty years, would no longer be ours to lease. In that moment, it felt like the ground dropped out beneath me. But what followed was something I never expected: community

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20:08

A Last Chance to Save Bramblewood Stables

Relatively Stable ·

2025/08/14

A Last Chance to Save Bramblewood StablesThe land we stand on is being sold to the highest bidder — and the highest bidder will almost certainly be a developer. For 20 years, Bramblewood Stables has been my home, my work, and my community. Before me, this place served the public as a riding stable for more than 50 years. Before that, it was farmland. Now, it’s at risk of disappearing forever.In this episode, I share the story of the past week: losing Lady, our little black pony; learning the ground

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19:50

Caring in a Carefree World

Relatively Stable ·

2025/08/07

Caring in a Carefree World: A week of colic, caretaking, and unexpected graceThis week in Relatively Stable, I’m reading the latest installment from Stable Roots—a piece that started as a reflection on a colicking pony and turned into something much bigger.It’s about what happens when the boundaries between caregiving and daily life dissolve. When the barn becomes both a hospice and a sanctuary. When Coke becomes a medicine. When the work—the feeding, the cleaning, the showing up—becomes the thing

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12:35

Instinct is a Language

Relatively Stable ·

2025/07/17

Instinct is a Language: Reading storms, following cats, and finding safety in our skinsThis week’s essay moves through thorny fields, shifting weather, and how we come back into contact with what our bodies already know. It’s about Gideon—my nine-month-old Siberian cat—and how his instinct kicked in before I even knew I needed help. It’s about late summer, the edge of camp, and Indigo, the new kitten who’s joining us right as everything starts to turn.We look at barometers—human, feline,

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14:07

Making Friends With the Wasps

Relatively Stable ·

2025/07/10

Making Friends with the WaspsThe long, slow work of mending -- From the Stable Roots series | Read-aloud editionThis week’s episode walks gently into the tangled spaces of repair: of family, of land, of self. As my father’s health declines and life asks more questions than it answers, I return—again and again—to the daily work of mending. From the myths we build around our parents to the pencil I offered a wasp, this piece traces the quiet ways we negotiate vulnerability and create safety in places

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20:51

Not a Mirror, Nor a Mystic

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2025/07/03

🎙️ Relatively Stable – New EpisodeNot a Mirror, Nor a MysticInside the Unspoken Dynamics of Healing, Projection, and Power in Equine-Assisted Services🧠 In this episode, I explore what happens when we ask horses to fix us—and what they’re forced to carry in the name of human healing. This is a reckoning with transference, containment, and the subtle violence that can live inside even the most well-intentioned equine-assisted work.I reflect on my own evolution from riding instructor to coach, and

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19:13

Slow Horsemanship

Relatively Stable ·

2025/06/19

🎧 Slow Horsemanship, Rooted Systems, Living WorkAn ancient rhythm, a living system, and a slow return to what matters.In this episode, Kim shares the living framework behind her work at Bramblewood Stables—a system shaped by horses, held by land, and rooted in authorship rather than performance.This isn’t a how-to. It’s a manifesto. A map. A reclamation of rhythm and relationship in a world that often rushes past the real work.Whether you're a horse person, a writer, a land steward, a coach, or

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16:45

The Boundary is the Lesson

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2025/06/12

The Boundary is the Lesson: You can't ride every story home, and that's not a failure.What if the bravest thing you could do with a horse is stand still beside it?In this week's episode, I explore what happens when we stop trying to perform our way into belonging — with horses, with others, with ourselves — and start listening instead.You'll hear stories from the farm: a child who built a horse from a pool noodle, a twelve-year-old who chose presence over progress, and teenagers who asked me to

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16:51

Where the Wild Roses Grow

Relatively Stable ·

2025/06/05

Episode Title: Where the Wild Roses Grow (Voiceover)Show Notes: This week, I’m sharing something different, a eulogy in remembrance of a woman who mothered a whole generation of strays.After attending the funeral of Brenda Boozer—my lifelong friend Leland Todd Boozer’s mother and a woman who helped raise more of us than I can count—I couldn’t stop writing. I didn’t speak at her funeral, but the words wouldn’t leave me alone. So I wrote the eulogy anyway.This piece isn’t just about Brenda. It’s about

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76:07

Caitlee Greene

Relatively Stable ·

2025/06/02

Episode 7: Tending the Roots with Caitlee Greene of Greene Roots LLCWhat if healing isn't something we chase, but something we come home to?In this episode of Relatively Stable, Kim is joined by Caitlee Greene of Greene Roots LLC, an equine bodyworker, land steward, and quiet revolutionary whose work reaches far beyond traditional care. Caitlee's approach draws on nervous system awareness, regenerative land practices, and a radical noticing that asks: What if healing isn’t about fixing, but about

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14:29

The Fountain of Youth

Relatively Stable ·

2025/05/22

The Fountain of Youth: A Praise Song for Water, Horses, and Coming HomeThis week’s VoiceOver is a meditation on the most sacred and overlooked element: water. Kim shares reflections from the foothills of South Carolina, where the horses at Bramblewood drink deeply from ancient wells, and where healing begins with quiet instead of complexity.In this audio essay, you’ll travel from moss-covered fonts to forgotten reservoirs, and through the slow, shimmering return of both horse and human to their true

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14:28

When the Bough Breaks

Relatively Stable ·

2025/05/15

When the Bough Breaks (The Devil You Didn't See Coming)The sound of a tree limb breaking high overhead has always made me run. This episode is about what happens when you can’t -- or when the things that you prepare for, obsesses over, and worry about endlessly aren't the problems that actually occur.It's the other stuff, the in-between stuff, that gets us.This week, I'm telling a story of storms, trees, horses, and the shifting illusion of control. You’ll hear about the wedding we moved at the last

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27:18

Leaving the Arena

Relatively Stable ·

2025/05/08

🎙️ Leaving the ArenaA horsewoman’s exit from the culture of mastery and the wisdom that followed🪶 Description:In this week’s essay from Stable Roots, I’m tracing the long arc of why I don't ride horses anymore, but will always consider myself a riding instructor and owner of a public riding stable.My story about flipping the script on what mastery looks like. It's about draw reins and side saddles, bruised legs and the existential injuries that take root in the mind. It's about walking away from

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25:14

Riding Was Never the Goal

Relatively Stable ·

2025/05/01

RIDING WAS NEVER THE GOAL: A Life Spent Dismounting the Old Story, One Ride at a TimeNot every lesson happens in the saddle.This week in Stable Roots, I’m sharing the latest in a series of pieces about Max — the little red horse who has shaped everything I believe about teaching, riding, and staying.We talk about broken reins, riderless horses, trail ride chaos, and the revolution that begins on the ground. And why, after all these years, I still consider myself a riding instructor — even if I don’t

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15:02

The Cost of Entry

Relatively Stable ·

2025/04/24

Max turned 30 this month, and it's hard to encapsulate all that he’s carried.This week’s piece isn’t about ribbons or milestones. It’s about the years we spent on the edges of tradition, moving between polished arenas and dusty fields, between what I thought I had to earn and what was already mine.There’s a cost to chasing legitimacy. I didn’t know I was paying it until I started asking different questions.Read the full essay here: https://stables.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-entry Get full access to

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19:52

Don't Skip the Money

Relatively Stable ·

2025/04/17

🎙️ Weekly Essay from Stable RootsEpisode Title: Don't Skip the Money: The Spiritual Economy of CareDescription:This week's voiceover is a tribute to Max — my steady red horse who just turned 30 — and a reflection on what it means to build a life in the wake of storms. As we mark 200 days since Hurricane Helene changed the landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains, I'm sharing the story of how Max came into my life and how his presence shaped everything that followed.But this isn't just about a

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