Your Horse Needs a Bombproof Rider: Overcome Your Fear - Softcover

"Afraid to ride? Get a bombproof horse." This advice did not work for me! I'd ridden and even trained horses for many years - and slowly an unreasonable fear entered my life and kept me out of the saddle. I was afraid. Books always have answers! I headed for the library and found many excellent books dealing with equine fear - but what about human fear? People who have never felt fear have a difficult time understanding fear. Riding instructors are usually not plagued with fear - they must guess what fear feels and how to deal with the problem. I was determined to solve the problem of fear myself - and record the process. While my fear affected my horse, fear was my problem, not my horses' problem. My horse, Truly, was bombproof - and doing her best to deal with her fearful human. Clearly, I had to figure out how to bombproof myself - so my horse and I could both enjoy riding. And I did! I learned what doesn't work - and most importantly, what DOES work! I'm a bombproofed human - back in the saddle! You can be too!

"Afraid to ride? Get a bombproof horse." This standard advice did not work for me! My fear could rattle the nerves of even the most unflappable of equines. What happened to me? I'd ridden and trained horses for 20 years - why was I afraid? How could I overcome the unreasonable fear that kept me out of the saddle? Books always have answers! I headed for the library and found many excellent books dealing with equine fear - but what about human fear? People who have never felt fear have a difficult time understanding fear. I was going to have to solve the problem of fear myself. And it was MY problem, not my horse's. I was going to have to learn how to bombproof myself! I succeeded - I became a bombproofed human - and you can too!