Did you know… Mission: Milspouse published its 3000th blog post in 2023 and is still growing!
The Gift of Personal Growth
A common joke among the military community goes something like this “if Uncle Sam wanted servicemembers to have a spouse, they would have been issued one.”
Developing a Positive Attitude Using Affirmations
Most of us know the importance of maintaining a positive attitude. There are serious benefits to optimism.
4 Simple Tips to Get Your Home Ready to Sell
There may come a point when it’s time to sell your home. Maybe you’re facing this decision now or maybe you’ll consider selling in a few years. Either way, you’ll need to know how to effectively get your home ready to sell.
Your home, as perfect as it is, will most likely need some repairs or updates. Because we’re often blinded by our own bias, you might ask a friend to walk through your home and write a list of repairs they would want done should they choose to buy your home.
6 Ways Parenting a Newborn is like Being a Military Spouse
Listen very closely… Do you hear that? It’s my own personal internal tick-tock clock as I anxiously wait for this New Tiny Human to be born. (I’m writing this post a little bit in advance, because hopefully, by the time this post is published in late February, this newborn will have been evicted and settling into the “real world” in our arms.)
You may recall that last month, I wrote a post about how pregnancy is like being a military spouse. Well, my love for analogies hasn’t stopped, so today I would like to share 6 Ways Parenting a Newborn is like Being a Military Spouse.
To the Milspouse Who is Also a Student
Dear milspouse who is also a student…
I know your struggle, because until just a few months ago, I was that spouse. I couldn’t move with my husband when he came to a new duty station because I was in school. I couldn’t visit because I couldn’t miss any more classroom time.
Me? Lead? You’ve Got the Wrong Person!
Over the last two weeks, I had the opportunity to lead a training team for a major corporation in Dubai.
As a presentation and communication skills trainer, I’ve led teams in lots of cities here in the states. But now I was taking a team of five people more than 7,800 miles away.
What if something went wrong?
When You Start Rolling Your Eyes at the Calendar
As someone who has always had some sort of seasonal depression in the darker months, even before my diagnosis of Postpartum Depression after each daughter, February has always been one of my least favorite months.
This year, it’s month four of a deployment that will be somewhere between eight and 12 months long (it’s still anybody’s guess), and the end of my homebody tendencies because travel season starts back up for my job.
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