Dream Catchers

Hello beautiful souls, Today I'm speaking to all the military spouses out there!<3 Y'all are the REAL MVP! I believe military spouses are pretty underestimated and not recognized enough. Someone who is not a military spouse (like me a couple years ago) might look at military spouses as just a dependant that receives pretty good medical benefits, job opportunities, and travel! But what the outside looking in might fail to see is everything that goes on inside an active duty family household. A lot of stress is coming in and out of the house, time apart from your significant other, constant changes, and responsibilities that still have to be accomplished on a daily basis especially if you have children in the picture. The first couple of months after I got medically discharged from the military, and then became a military spouse was a difficult transition at the time. The experience of feeling unworthy, sad, lonely, bored, loss of interests, and dependant on so...

Open door policy. A policy that is put in place so that soldiers of any rank can walk into a command teams office and feel free of speaking about things that can affect discipline, morale and/or mission effectiveness. The thing is that with the uniform comes a certain uphold, that you have to be strong, stern, no emotions, no feelings. And truth be told that is what breaks people. We are human beings! We are all living, breathing, feeling things and we were made to love, and dream, and believe. There is no denying that when you join the military, there is a sense of pride, accomplishment, bravery, courage, and maybe even confidence that comes with that. The military, the veterans, the ones who fought for the freedom of others. The ones first to be called when there is a tragedy in the world, natural disasters, or protection that needs to be put in place. We protect the people of our country, we practice, we test, every day. We stay always prepared for the "big fight...