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Category Archives: Moving
Overcoming the Military Mental Health Stigma
Sometimes hardest part is to recognize you need help and then actually going to get help. Sometimes it requires you to overcome the military mental health stigma that has been trained into who you are. The path to starting getting mental health help was a long process. I think it took me over a year […]
Permission to Feel When Starting Over
Do you try and stop yourself from feeling the hurt that comes when starting over? As a military wife, “starting over” and “loneliness” are a few of my close friends. They aren’t exactly the company I like to keep, and it might sound crazy, but some of the very best relationships in my life have […]
Waiting on the Military to Change Your Future
The military has this window of time while you are waiting on the military, waiting for an assignment. At some points in your career there are things you can do to help direct where you go. At other points, you are sitting and waiting on the military to make its move. You fill out the […]
Why You Need Community Even When You Think You Don’t
I have always heard about tribes and you know your people. Your community. But I have never been one to have people that I relied on. Maybe you are like me and have an I can do it attitude. You know that if you just pull yourself up from your bootstraps and go everything will […]
Life Transition: Time to Start Over Again
With each life transition you keep some of the past as you head off to the new adventure, journey or life goal. Being a military spouse means added to the normal transitions of life we also add starting all over in a new place and a new adventure. My neighbor and I recently were discussing […]
4 Stages of PCS Grief
The military has a culture where everything is fine. There are often times you don’t have control over your life. Where you move, where and when your husband will be gone and it is all just fine. We have this “I can do it” motto we live by. Probably because that is the way it […]
Emergency Contact Reboot…Finding New Friends
“How do you do it?” It is a question that I am asked often by friends who are boggled by all the moving and starting over. Moving is the military mantra. And because of this, friendships come and go at a high rate. Making and finding new friends is just something I have to do. […]
Why Saying Goodbye to Friends Isn’t Easy
Technology may make it easier to stay connected when friends move away, but it doesn’t change the fact that saying goodbye to friends is hard. What feels like it was so far away is quickly approaching and the reality that nothing will change is no longer an illusion I can live with. Soon life will […]
How to Connect at Your New Assignment
When you join the military, or become a military spouse one thing you learn pretty quick is that you will always be making connections at each new assignment. Even when you make friends at one location you know a move is on the horizon and sometimes friends leave before you and you lose those connections. […]
