Like many young girls, Heidi A. McLaughlin was your typical horse-crazy kid! She had a collection of plastic horses on her window sill and freaked out every time she saw a horse in real life. All Heidi ever wanted to do was ride one. But her first experience in the saddle at eight years old was anything but wonderful when her grandmother's barn sour horse ran away with her and scared her half to death. While her passion was still there, the terrifying experience left her with a paralyzing fear of the creatures that she loved so much; a fear that would take more than half her lifetime to overco...