When I look back at my first day at San Diego Therapeutic Horsemanship (SDTH) I was living in a bubble of ignorant bliss. I knew PTSD was something that affected our veterans, I just didn’t realize how deeply this brutal mental illness ran. Our vets may have left the physical battlefield behind, but once they returned home a new internal and somewhat invisible battle was raging. The first time I saw one of our vets regress into a PTSD episode is something that will stay with