This is what I want to do with my life," Ms Feakes said."I loved every day — until I didn't."Being bullied, sexually harassed, assaulted, it ruined the whole experience for me."She said she tried everything to get past her PTSD, but most veteran programs were geared towards men."I've done programs with males and I have had to change the way I speak, withhold information, because I know it would start something," she said.Ms Feakes said being in the ocean instead of a "clinical" environment with a therapist also felt less intimidating."If you're in a group and you don't feel like sharing today, that's OK," she said.Lyndsay Free, board director of Women Veterans Australia, said many women found leaving the defence force a "big and confronting adjustment" as they also navigated caregiving, parenting and relationship pressures."Current statistics show that former-serving women veterans are more than twice as likely to die by suicide as Australian civilian women," Ms Free said."We need to stop pretending all veteran trauma comes from combat For some women, the deepest trauma came from experiences within the system itself."Military sexual trauma is an uncomfortable conversation, but an essential one if we're serious about veteran wellbeing."PTSD doesn't care whether your trauma came from deployment, assault, chronic exposure to stress, or a combination of all three — trauma is trauma."She commended Ms Grant on her program, which would help women who might otherwise "suffer in silence"."Women veterans aren't a niche subset of the community," Ms Free said.