Kimberly Carter:
Writer - Horsewoman - Coach

Kim is the founder of Bramblewood Stables and the creative force behind Stable Roots, an exploration of story, horse-guided growth, grief, and transformation. Her work is rooted in a deep reverence for the nervous system, for the land, and for the wisdom of horses as partners—not tools—in the process of becoming more fully human.

Kim’s teaching and coaching approaches blend somatic awareness, narrative process, and grounded horsemanship to support clients through seasons of personal change, restoration, and rewilding. After decades of study, teaching, and training—including advanced riding instruction and equine-assisted certifications, financial coaching credentials, and somatic facilitation training in the Compassion Process—she continues to refine a method that is uniquely her own: relational, responsive, and deeply intuitive.

Raised in the competitive hunter/jumper world of upstate South Carolina, Kim has spent her life in barns. As a teen, she was an award-winning poet and fiction writer who trained at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and graduated from Wofford College with honors. Her early career in journalism was cut short by a sudden onset of panic disorder. It was horses—and one in particular, a young gelding named Max—that helped bring her back.

The book she planned to write became Bramblewood Stables, a living story that continues to unfold across pasture, page, and podcast. Today, Bramblewood is not just a home for horses but a refuge for people seeking honest, body-based, horse-guided transformation. Kim offers private coaching and respite sessions, creative workshops, community gatherings, and a growing library of digital resources—each one infused with the same values that carried her through her own recovery: truth, beauty, reciprocity, and wild resilience.

She lives in South Carolina at the farm with her husband Christopher, her mother, their border collie, and their two Siberian cats, and she continues to share the stories unfolding around her through her blog at Stable Roots and podcast, Relatively Stable.

More at stableroots.substack.com