by Julie Costello, LMFT

I was reading a post not too long ago where a person was making a great point, but then clarified that they were just an intern. So, were they telling me to discard their point since they weren’t experienced enough to make it? It got me thinking about how often people sabotage themselves with their words; making themselves seem less than without even realizing it.

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by Kasey King, MS

One of the hardest things to deal with, as a military spouse, are deployments. Not only are we often uprooted from our hometowns to places where we know no one, now we are left feeling alone. In the past eight years of my marriage, we have gone through four deployments, with one just finishing last month.

After experiencing the deployment bug (as some spouses call it), I compiled a list of tips that helped me get through these emotionally draining deployments over the years.

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By Marinelle Reynolds, LCSW Every year, as the cold winter temperatures move in, thousands of geese take flight towards warmer weather.  They quickly form the familiar v-shaped pattern in the sky. One lead goose takes the front and the rest follow closely behind in two lines. If we think of leadership as the ability to influence and take a group of people from where they are to someplace better, as Tom Worsham (1992) points out, we can learn a lot from geese.

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By Lori Derr Being a mental health therapist can be both rewarding and stressful all at the same time. As therapists, we tend to be in tune with and capable of helping our clients deal with stress, but it is often a different story when it comes to identifying and managing our own stress. Being able to manage our own stress helps us be more present with our clients. Here are three ways that I have found to manage stress throughout the workday.

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By Bri Kriley When my significant other, now husband, first confirmed he’d be pursuing a career in the military, I refused to be flexible with my brick and mortar dreams.  I wanted to be surrounded by fellow learners, have in-person discussions, expert mentors within close proximity, and structured class time. I chose to live apart from my spouse. I expedited my undergraduate, brick and mortar experience to minimize our time apart, to make it work.  

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By Marinelle Reynolds, LCSW I’ve been blessed throughout my career to have had so many amazing mentors and supervisors. Each one shaped who I became as a clinician and helped me grow my career into something that I can be proud of.

Regardless of where you are in your career path or if you are considering starting a career, here are some of the most impactful nuggets of wisdom that I have learned that you can use along the way.

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By Laura Blair

In the last 11 months, my family has:

Obtained retirement orders, scheduled a move, moved 1200 miles (two weeks after we got our retirement orders),
started a new job, found a place to rent, enrolled a kid in school,
had our final household goods delivery, gotten pregnant with kid #3,
and are finally starting to feel settled in our retirement location.  

It’s been a crazy (almost) year, and I’m exhausted just thinking about all the initial stress we had in the first few months of retirement.

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by Kasey King, MS When was the last time you actually went on vacation, to the nail shop, met up with friends, or just relaxed? What if I told you that the United States is not even in the top 10, in the whole world, in used vacation? We move so fast, and work so hard, that we are scared to take time off in a world that waits on no one.

Because of this, we experience burnout and disconnected relationships with our friends and family. In addition, we experience high rates of stress, fatigue, anxiety, and hospitalization.

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