The number of decisions we make each day is endless: What to wear, what to eat, whether we should work out, what to watch on TV, do we really need that particular item at the grocery store?
But they get bigger, too! Do I really want to spend a whole year without my service member? When do I decide to make a move in my career? When do we choose to grow our family?
Patrick Benson shares details about the nonprofit organization, War Horses for Veterans, a unique program that’s had great success in helping veterans transition from combat to civilian life through the use of horse-related activities. Patrick is an Army veteran who served in the infantry from 1998 to 2004. His deployment to Iraq in 2003 and his numerous military operations enable his understanding of the physical and emotional strain on our combat veterans. As a professional horseman, he manages a training and breeding program for performance horses. Patrick experienced firsthand the effectiveness of working with horses during his transition to civilian life. He is a co-founder and director of War Horses for Veterans.
There’s a little known team called the Care Team that few are familiar with. Why is this group so unknown? One big reason may be because of the purpose of their job. They provide care to a family after a casualty has occurred. Casualties, notifications, and other key words tend to make most people uncomfortable.
Guest, Albie Masland discusses the Travis Manion Foundation, an organization that assists and supports our nation’s veterans and the families of fallen heroes. Albie first came into contact with the Travis Manion Foundation in 2012 when he ran 3,025 miles coast-to-coast across the U.S. to honor fallen heroes, while also raising money for the foundation. The experience left Albie with a desire to continue working in the veteran affairs field. An opportunity arose for Albie in the San Diego office of the Travis Manion Foundation, where he first served as a community outreach coordinator and facilitated events for the Mentorship and Advocacy Program (MAP-V). Albie also serves as an Ambassador for the Character Does Matter Program, a youth program based on leadership, courage, integrity, and service.
Trigger warning: This post discusses infant loss. I don't know what it is, but I have a really big issue with lying—at least when the lies, great or small, come from me. It's hard for me to "fib" to my daughter about why she can't have a piece of Mama's fancy...
On this episode, we’re chatting with Amy L. Sullivan, here to offer practical advice related to parenting and her book, When More is Not Enough: How to Stop Giving Your Kids What They Want and Give The What They Need.
I’ve recently lived (barely) through some intense, life-altering, earth-shattering events. Specifics are best kept for another time, when I’ve had proper sleep, time to comprehend, digest, and process all the things, and there are so many things.
From start ’til now, it’s been a grueling, frustrating, heart-wrenching (and many more “..ings”) 10 months. And while I can see the end will eventually come, no one involved can name a date. So here I am, month 10 of this “event” in my life, and I feel as if I’ve found a specific theme park called “Emotional Rollercoaster City.”
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.
I debated sharing this post for quite some time, not because I felt I needed to keep my infertility a secret, but because I wasn’t confident I wanted complete strangers to know such private details.
However, one of the struggles women and men face when they receive a diagnosis of infertility is a lack of strong community to lift them up. You can’t receive loving support if you hide in isolation; you have to share your struggle in order to get what you need.
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P.O. Box 641341
El Paso, TX 79904