Do you feel that you must communicate with your husband everyday in some way or you won’t feel connected and loved? This is how I used to feel. Let me share with you why that is not a healthy way to handle deployment and how I’ve learned to adapt to the style of communication that works well for each particular deployment.

Communication is one of the biggest keys to growing and being strong in your marriage. But if you’re really honest with yourself, are you fully communicating with your husband who you really are. I lost myself in the process of making my husband happy. I now realize the importance of being an active part of our relationship by knowing myself, knowing what I want and what I don’t want and honestly sharing that with my husband. Join me as I share why it’s absolutely imperative to know myself and express yourself fully to your husband to have the most fulfilling and healthy relationship that you can.

Do you think it’s your responsibility to make your husband happy? Do you also believe it is your husband’s responsibility to bring you joy? This way of thinking will set your marriage up for disappointment and eventually disaster. How do I know this?... because this was how I lived my life just a short month ago. Yup! I got it all wrong. Join me as I share with you where I now find my joy and peace... even when there's a storm raging on the outside.

If your honest with yourself, what would you say is the one thing that brings you the most anxiety? That one thing that keeps showing up and makes you want to throw in the towel because you just can't figure out how to ignore it and move past it. What if I told you that in order to overcome your anxiety and stress you must continue to practice and work through your it so that you get to a point where it no longer overwhelms you? Join me today as I share how God must have a sense of humor when I asked him to help me through my anxiety of packing... because HOLY SMOKES... we've done more than our fair share over the past 5 months.

Does your "to do" list grow like a weed daily, causing you to feel defeated before you can even begin your day. Sigh... I struggle with this so hard. Join me today as I share with you the toxic thought I am cancelling out of my brain and what positive truth I am choosing daily to replace it with.

Why do we often allow others to determine our self worth? I know we've all done it whether a friend or family trying to give us unsolicited advice during deployment... or even a perfect stranger at a grocery store that glares you down with such judgement that you just want to hide in a dark hole and cry. This happened to me recently with a perfect stranger while I was getting into my car, and the look he gave me brought down so much shame I could hardly breath. Join me today as I share what I learned through that very dark moment.

You've heard the saying... do something that scares you every day, but does that also include while you're husband is deployed? ABSOLUTELY!! Deployment is full of all sorts of things that scare us, knock us off our butts, and get us doing things we never imagined we'd have to do.  But where would you be if you never got out and tried new scary things? Join me today in this episode as I share how whitewater rafting and deployment have helped me become more adventurous.

Seriously... what does the Great Wall of China have to do with my husband being gone? It's incredibly long, beyond exhausting, tedious, and always unpredictable. But it's so worth it when you've reached the top and you can say... "I DID IT!" Join me today in this episode as I share how the most challenging and exhausting climb EVER taught me about perseverance and triumph through the challenges of deployment.

Does the idea of having to celebrate another birthday, another anniversary, and another holiday without your husband during deployment leave you feeling sad, lonely, and depressed? Join me today on this episode as I share how we choose to celebrate these special days on our own terms and actually make it fun.

Are you feeling overwhelmingly lonely today... this week... this month? While this is perfectly normal during deployment, I have found that my loneliness is not actually caused by missing my husband. But instead is created because a circumstance that I feel I don't have control over or feel overwhelmed by. So if you can take a step back and ask yourself a question... you will be surprised to find that it's not actually loneliness that you're feeling. Listen to this episode to find out this very important question you must ask yourself when you "feel Lonely."