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Holiday Resilience: How TRICARE Supports Your Mental Health
For many, the holiday season brings expectations of joy. But for some, the holidays may be a time of stress, sadness, isolation, or other mental health issues.
7 Tips to Successful Meal Planning
For an embarrassingly long time, Sunday evening would roll around every week and I would say to myself, “Huh. I have no idea what we are going to have for meals over the next week. I’ll deal with that tomorrow.”
Then Monday would come, and I would argue, “It’s Monday. I don’t feel like meal planning and grocery shopping. I’ll deal with it tomorrow.” We would then order a pizza or do some scrounging in the kitchen for a make-shift meal.
State of the Uterus Address
Brandi and I have been friends for nearly two decades now. We joke that we are each other’s “oldest” girlfriend, so we can pretty much talk about anything. She is a passionate gal and a fellow blogger. Recently, she posted something on Facebook that really got me thinking, which blossomed into a conversation that we now dub “State of the Uterus.”
I don’t know what the deal is, but some people, both inside and outside the military spouse circle, don’t seem to have boundaries or discretion on some personal discussion topics.
10 Ways To Face the World When You Don’t Want To
Even the most positive people among us experience feeling down and discouraged at times due to personal circumstances or events in the world that affect us collectively. Judging from the news reports, the world has seemingly descended into chaos on more days than not.
Even if we try to avoid the news reports and images, our social media newsfeeds are often filled with opinions and rants about anything and everything imaginable.
4 Self Care Tips for Military Spouses
It’s often been said that those who can’t do, teach. So, let me tell you what I can’t do. Relax. I’m told that it’s genetic—I’m like my grandmother, her mother before her, and so on. I come from a long, long line… of control freaks. Being a military spouse doesn’t seem like it would be compatible with being a control freak because our whole life seems to be one big change of plans.
However, it seems that there are more of us than you’d expect. I suppose the fact that we tend to be determined, goal-driven, laser-focused, (stubborn), and so on is a benefit to our lifestyle. We are fantastic house managers, business owners, life coaches, come up with plans A-F and occasionally to Z given the circumstance, and do it with an indisputable quickness and a smile.
Retirement: Another Bend in the Road
I will never forget that day—the day I knew our future was going to change. It was a windy overcast October day in 2013. My parents were visiting and had taken our five children to a movie, and I had the house to myself. At 4:30 p.m. I heard the garage door open.
It wasn’t a sound I usually heard before dark. My husband had been working late almost every day. He’d been under a lot of stress at work and hadn’t been sleeping well. He’d been on edge for months. He walked in the door and I could tell he wasn’t himself. He said he was going on a walk. I really didn’t give it much more thought. He sometimes just needed some quiet time to sort things out.
Newton’s Law of Emotions
At some point in school, most students hear of Newton’s Laws of Motion. The third law is the most familiar: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
In my opinion, this law can also be applied to some of the emotions that take place within military life.
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