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.
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.
Recently, my husband and I began the series Band of Brothers. As I was watching the struggles, laughter, tears, and journey that WWII Army Airborne soldiers went through, it wasn’t difficult to pick up on the representations of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. My husband made an off-handed comment that feeling guilty about coming home after deployments while buddies are still fighting is common.
I began to wonder if he and others around me had suffered from PTSD.
I gave birth to my son on Feb. 2. It was a mostly relaxed labor as I did not dilly-dally and made sure I quickly got an epidural since I had an induction. After around 24 hours in labor, he was born in the late morning and weighed 6 lbs, 14 ounces. It was fairly surreal going through the whole process.
However, not very long after his birth, while I was still in the hospital, anxiety and the feeling of being overwhelmed quickly consumed me.
We’ve all had those nights spent tossing and turning, anxiously counting down the few remaining hours until the alarm goes off and it will be time to drag ourselves out of bed and start the day. For some, this doesn’t happen very often, but for millions of people this has become the norm. If you dream of getting a good night’s sleep, read on! The following tips can help you get intentional about creating good sleep habits.
When questioned about the mystery guy who inspired her hit song, “Hello,” Adele answered that it was, in part, a song to herself and some of the people around her. At first, I thought that was crazy talk. And then I spent a month on new meds, and I understood.
On this week’s empowering episode of Army Wife Talk Radio, we’re chatting with guest, Sarahjoy Marsh about Yoga Joy.
Dr. Leslie Morland was a guest on Army Wife Network Talk Radio recently and spoke about the Anger and Irritability Management Skills course created by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assist veterans and service members with the transition from military to civilian life. She and her colleague, Dr. Carolyn Greene, also with VA, shared more about the course, its features, and who it benefits.
On this empowering episode of Army Wife Talk Radio, we’re chatting with guest, Dr. Leslie Morland about anger and irritability management skills, or AIMS.
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