We Got Orders to WHERE?? 4 Keys to Make the Most of a Military Duty Station You Don’t Love
4 KEYS TO MAKE THE MOST OF A DUTY STATION YOU DON’T LOVE As a relatively new military wife, my worst nightmare came true. My active duty husband received orders to a new duty station, an assignment that I most definitely DID NOT want. I cried when we got the news. And yet, some of […]
I Don’t Know Who Needs to Hear This But…
Military spouse appreciation day Welcome to a bonus episode of the MilSpouse Mastermind Show! Today is Military Spouse Appreciation Day. While this day occurs every year, this year feels even more important. We’ve all been through a lot in the last year. More stress, more anxiety, more isolation, more uncertainty, more confusion, more loneliness. And […]
How To Find Time Freedom & Flexibility: Work From Home Jobs for Military Spouses
How A Work From Home Job Changed Everything For Mary Elaine Baker Trying to navigate a career as a military spouse is tough! But having your own thing is possible! In today’s episode, we chat with Mary Elaine Baker, a military spouse veteran who chose to leave her teaching career for a better work-life balance. […]
Preparing for a PCS? Five Secrets to Stop a Major Life Event From Derailing Your Dreams
Preparing for a PCS? You’ve Got This! For many of us, the often-dreaded PCS (permanent change of station) season is here! But the truth is whether or not it’s time to move to a new duty station, we all have major life events that occur. And it’s easy for these major life events to knock […]
In Search of a New Normal: How to Overcome Overwhelm & Make Margin For What Matters
For some of us, the end of the pandemic lifestyle is in sight. Or at least, the end of staying home and doing nothing. Events and activities are once again being added to our calendars. YES, we are all craving a sense of normalcy. We long for life to feel familiar again. BUT… Do […]
The Accidental Stay-At-Home Mom: My Story & Search for Purpose. HOW TO RECLAIM YOUR LIFE AND DREAMS.
Some people dream of becoming a stay-at-home mom. I did not. And yet, after three babies and four moves in four years, that’s exactly where I found myself. Today we’re answering the question, “What do we do when the life we end up living doesn’t look like the life we had planned?” So many of […]
Hindsight is 2020: MY TOP TEN TAKEAWAYS of 2020, PART 2
Less than a week before our first OCONUS PCS (overseas move) last summer I found myself headed to the hospital. A week before a total of three sets of moving companies would be showing up at my house…a week before we closed on the sale of our home and officially became (temporarily) homeless. In other […]
Hindsight is 2020: My Top Ten Takeaways of 2020, Part 1
How will you remember 2020? They say hindsight is 2020. However, it will probably be a while before we truly understand the impact that this year has had on us as individuals and collectively as people. I think in the short term, we have a tendency to want to move on, to say good riddance […]
Building A Life You Love
I Didn’t Sign Up For This Since becoming a military spouse, I have moved approximately every two years. The other night hubs and I were talking about just how much of our life is devoted to moving – prepping for a move, actually moving, or getting settled in a new place. In the last ten […]
Failure Isn’t Fatal
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden Hindsight is 2020 (Especially in 2020) Back in February I had a chance to reflect on and set growth goals for the coming year. (Because who does that in January??). I examined each major category of my life (physical, mental, spiritual, relational, home […]
