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How Do You Feel Better About Yourself?
I have a confession. I don’t know how to dress down. How do you feel better about yourself? I’m the girl you see in the grocery store wearing a dress and heels. Besides going to the gym, I don’t leave...
View ArticleEvery Day Should Be Suicide Prevention Day
I have been reading a lot about mental health diagnoses recently, learning about how one person’s mental illness impacts the entire family, friends and co-workers. This is especially true in the...
View ArticleThe Caregiver of Invisible Wounds
The face of a caregiver takes many forms. These faces are weathered and weary. Battered and often near broken. Hopeful, yet knowing. They live within a paradox, which is forever changing; the only...
View ArticleMilitary Spouses Giving Back: Military Spouse Behavioral Health Clinicians
As military spouses, we are keenly aware of just how much our community has endured since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — and even before then. Our service members and families live with the...
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Losing the One You Love to War
Once someone we love has served in the military, we are family. – Tyra Manning Military life is rife with unwanted transitions, and military families can spend years grappling with the effects of...
View ArticleCoping With Death: Just Another Day in America
There has been so much death lately. There is war and so many of the people we know and love are getting killed. The way it’s talked about these days makes it seem like it isn’t important and that...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Be the Significant Other of A Servicemember
When my now husband and I started dating, he told me upfront that he had recently signed a contract with the Navy and would be moving to Charleston, South Carolina in a little under a year. I didn’t...
View ArticleSometimes We Are Just Not Okay…and That’s Okay
Sometimes, I’m not okay. I’m not ashamed or afraid to admit it. Too often, when we struggle – and I mean heart-wrenching struggles, our souls splitting with the pain of the pressure, the stress, the...
View ArticleA Letter To My Friend, The Divorced Military Spouse
“Divorce.” You barely whispered it. “I’m getting a divorce.” You hadn’t slept, that much was clear. Your hair hung about your face as wild and limp as the fronds of a weeping willow tree. Weeping —...
View Article3 Ways That A Long-Distance Relationship Preps You for Deployment
We were at the airport. I’d spent most of the night crying — and most of the night before that. The day of — the day he got on the plane — had passed by in a blur of suitcase zips, suitcase unzips,...
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5 Ways to Manage Military Spouse Stress
By: Dr. Kendra Lowe, Air Force Spouse Over the past 15 years as a soldier, spouse and researcher I have become increasingly aware of and concerned by, the amount of stress suffered by military spouses....
View ArticleDear Mindy, Help Preparing for Deployment
Dear Mindy Besides Yellow Ribbon, what other resources are out there for preparing for deployments for families when this is our first deployment, and my husband is going to a combat zone? What can I...
View ArticleMy Son Didn’t Choose His Military Life and I Feel Guilty About It
By Molly DeWitt, from Military Spouse Magazine It’s a typical weekday morning for us. We’ve rushed out of the house to make it to preschool and work on time and now we’re listening to the theme song of...
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7 Reasons I’m Thankful Even Though I’ll Be Alone on Thanksgiving
I shuffled into the dark kitchen in the early morning, like so many Thanksgivings before in our married life. As the sun began to move through the windows, I heaved the giant turkey into the oven,...
View ArticleI Have Anxiety.
Far more regularly than I would like to admit, I roll over in the middle of the night, glance at the clock and then like an unwanted house guest darkness enters my thoughts. My initial reaction is to...
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How My Dog Helps Me Survive This Crazy Military Life
Growing up and into adulthood I have always preferred to spend time with other people. As a kid my home was always filled with siblings, parents and grandparents. Then in college I was in my element...
View Article10 Things To Know When Someone You Love Has Anxiety
As military families we recognize that our lives will never be free of struggle. These same struggles are often times the “refiner’s fire,” the works of molding us into more resilient, compassionate,...
View ArticleWhy You Should Flaunt Your Patriotism Proudly
The bad behavior and attitudes causing problems for our country are extremely frustrating. There is one issue in particular I want to focus on right now. Let me lay out for you why disrespect to the...
View ArticleLiving the American Dream After Divorce: The EX Files of a Former Military Wife
Living the American Dream After Divorce: The EX Files of a Former Military Wife My childhood fantasy was to marry a military man who served our country. He would work long hours, and I would go to...
View ArticleJust Being Resilient Isn’t Enough: Why You Need to Get Gritty
When you close your eyes and think of the word “resilience,” what comes to mind? I think of picking myself up by my bootstraps, of bouncing back from difficulties. I think of recovery and healing, of...
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