Learn to Thrive as a Military Spouse
It’s not just a matter of survival. Thriving as a military spouse is a necessity. “I used to” be a ...
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Tag: Mental Health
5 Ways to Cope with Adjustment Anxiety in Military Life
Military life is full of change and if you find yourself overwhelming stressed from it, it may be time to ...
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Handling Stress During Your Spouse’s Deployment
During deployment, many military spouses experience increased levels of stress and anxiety. Not only do they miss the friendship and ...
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Four Ways Military Families Can Embrace Optimism
We can all learn from those who have served, dedicated their careers to helping others, and remained optimistic during the transition to ...
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Art Therapy Might Be The Perfect Treatment For PTSD
While some wounds, like scars, are visible to everyone, other wounds go unnoticed, trapped inside the human mind. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ...
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Breaking it to the kids can be the hardest thing about deployments
By Dauane France, Veteran Mental Health This was originally posted on the Military Spouse Advocacy Network blog, and I’m honored to be working ...
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The things they carry now
By Duane France, VeteranMentalHealth.com Even before joining the Army, Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried was a powerful read; going ...
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Are veterans trapped in a cage of our own construction?
By Duane France, LinkedIn.com Feeling trapped today? Caught in a bear trap or fell into a pit with sharp sticks ...
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Action and Avoidance, Then and Now
By Duane France, MA, NCC, LPCc, LinkedIn Post “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and ...
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To reduce mental health stigma among veterans, higher education must be the catalyst
By BY CARL SHEPERIS AND ADAM SUCH In 2014, 55 U.S. military service members died fighting in Afghanistan. Today, an average ...
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