How to Get Better Sleep As a Military Spouse
LISTEN ON YOUR FAV PLATFORM: APPLE | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE How to Get Better Sleep (Even When Your Spouse is Deployed) Optimize Your Sleep To Live Your Most Vibrant Life Have you ever felt like you weren’t getting enough quality sleep? You know sleep is important. And yet often, as a military spouse, it’s […]
How To Read More Books
LISTEN ON YOUR FAV PLATFORM: APPLE | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE How Do I Find Time To Read? Top Reading tips and hacks from a busy military spouse with young kids Do you wish you had time to read more books? Have you ever told yourself, maybe someday I’ll have more time? Finding time for […]
Is There Purpose in Your Pain?
LISTEN ON YOUR FAV PLATFORM: APPLE | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE Giving Voice to the Struggle of Infertility and Adoption for Military Families Finding Purpose in Your Pain with Military Spouse Cat Vandament Nearly 1 in 8 families struggle to get pregnant or sustain a pregnancy. And yet infertility is one of those subjects that isn’t […]
How Do I Find Time For Myself As a Busy Military Spouse With Young Kids?
LISTEN ON YOUR FAV PLATFORM: APPLE | SPOTIFY | GOOGLE How Do I Find Time For Myself? WHY MORE TIME DOESN’T EQUAL BETTER SELF CARE(AND WHAT WILL REALLY GIVE YOU THE RESULTS YOU WANT) I often hear the question, “How do I find time for myself?” This is particularly relevant for moms with young […]
Strengthen Your Military Marriage, Motherhood, Friendships & Build RESILIENCY With This Simple (Yet Overlooked) Hack
A super simple tip to strengthen your military marriage What if I told you there was one thing you could do today (and every day) to strengthen your military marriage, your relationship with your kids, your friendships and your resiliency? And what if I told you that one thing was super simple to do. So […]
The Truth About Finding Fulfillment as a Military Spouse, in Motherhood, & in Using Your Story for Good with Chrissie Kenaston
What does Finding PURPOSE & Fulfillment As A military spouse look like? It depends on your season of life Living with purpose will look difference in each and every season of our lives. Today we sit down with Chrissie Kenaston, a military wife, mom of three, business owner, volunteer, and author of the new book, […]
Dear Overwhelmed Mama
Dear overwhelmed mama, In my last blog post, I mentioned that in my next post I would talk about tips on self-care with young children. That post was published almost a month ago. In many ways it feels like a lifetime ago…a time when it really was possible to go meet a friend for dinner […]
The Book List
Last December I set a goal to read 30 books in 2019. I also gave birth to a baby girl, my third child in under four years. To some, these two activities might seem to conflict. When my other two children were born, I bemoaned the fact that I no longer had time to read […]
Hope on the Hard Days
When I have a victim mindset, I am frustrated by this fact. I am jealous of those who have help as an option. I blame my circumstances. I blame the military. I blame the fact that I am pregnant. I blame everyone but myself.
But if I am going to choose to live a victorious, flourishing life, the only thing that matters is HOW I respond to the circumstances life presents to me.
The Accidental Stay-at-home Mom
25-year-old me probably would have rolled her eyes at 35-year-old me. 25-year-old me never dreamed I would become a stay at home mom to three kids under the age of four. 25-year-old me knew nothing of kids’ bedtime routines, or the cost of daycare or the fun of pumping in a makeshift closet at work. […]
