Your Horse Needs a Bombproof Rider: Overcome Your Fear

by Donna Lindahl

"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!

182 pages, Paperback

First published May 23, 2012

Reviews

[Katharine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to call the author and thank her for writing this book. Horses pick up on and resonate our feelings and emotions, even if we are doing our best to lie to everyone and ourselves. The world picks up on it too (do you ever feel like nothing is going your way?). It took me way too long to learn that I needed to look within. This book articulates so well what happens to strong people when they start to lose self confidence and run into negative situations. It offers suggestions (that I can tell you work, asI learned them the hard way) for how to pick yourself back up again and feel like you have control over your life. It uses horses as a metaphor, but applies to non-riders as well. If you never had a fear or riding, or heights, or flying, etc but now have fear, you will definitely want to check out this book.

Some of us already have one or more perfect, bombproof horses - it's not the horse. What we need is to become a bombproof rider.

[Dani · Rating 1 out of 5]

Only the last chapter is useful

Only the last chapter is useful

I luckily decided to borrow this book rather then buy it. Most of it reads like a low quality auto-biography. While yes, bad things happened which had an effect on the author, she could have covered all that in one chapter then spent the rest of the book doing the "bombproofing" she mentions in the title. Unfortunately, she chose to do the complete opposite. Save yourself the time and only read the last chapter if you want anything useful. You'll thank me later.