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8 Creative Ways to Stay Both Busy and Energized During Deployment
If you’re a military spouse preparing for or in a deployment, chances are you’ve been advised to stay busy. This is great advice because it helps time pass more quickly, but so often we already feel too busy or stressed or overwhelmed during deployments. Check out these tips for improving the way you spend your free time in a way that is meaningful, energizing, and fits into your current schedule.
June Brave Crate – Creation 💐
Everything Inside of the June Brave Crate!!! Raise your hand if you've ever been told that "staying busy" is the best way to make time move quickly during your deployment countdown! We've all been there, with that age-old advice from a well meaning friend who...
May Brave Crate – Celebrate! 🥳
Everything Inside of the May Brave Crate!! After sending thousands of deployment countdown boxes to motivated military spouses around the world we've learned one thing: deployment can be overwhelming but it can also be beautiful with the right perspective!...
April Brave Crate- April Showers ☔️
Everything Inside of the APRIL Brave Crate!!! It can be hard for me to find the energy and motivation to celebrate life’s milestones while my spouse is deployed. But when I dig past the exhaustion, the loneliness and (to be honest) the guilt of celebrating while...
March Brave Crate- Shameless✨
Everything Inside of the MARCH Brave Crate!!Deployment guilt is real! From the guilt of enjoy life's little moments while our partner is so far from home, or the stress of a piling to-do list that you just don't have the energy to tackle, it's easy to feel like we're...
February Deployment Countdown Box: beYOUtiful ❤️
Everything Inside of the FEBRUARY Brave Crate!!The month of cupid is here... and there's no way to avoid it! While most of the world obsesses over hearts and chocolates, many of us on the homeside of a deployment are left wondering- should we just wish for February to...
January Deployment Countdown Box: Crushin’ It
Everything Inside of the January Brave Crate!!! Raise your hand if you've ever counted down a deployment during a pandemic... yeah, us too! Whether you embraced every bit of alone time or felt stir-crazy while you moved toward homecoming amidst quarantines and...
December Brave Crate: All Is Calm
Everything Inside of the December Brave Crate!! The holiday season is officially here, and for those of us counting down deployment it can feel a little bitter sweet. The lights, the family, the traditions- they're beautiful, but are often tinged with the fact...
Deployment Holiday Traditions
Friendsmas We promise- there are other military spouses & significant others longing for added connection and joy during their deployment countdown too. If you’ve struggled to connect with fellow military spouses in your area, Christmas day can be the perfect...
November Brave Crate: Gratitude
Everything Inside of the NOVEMBER Brave Crate!!! While friends and family around us are consumed with Thanksgiving grocery lists and perfecting their apple pie recipe, those of us on the home side may be dreading the lead up to this holiday season. There's no...
October Brave Crate: Back to Basics
Everything Inside of the October Brave Crate!!! Fall tends to be a season where we get back into life's regular routines. School schedules, work schedules and activities are ramping up after summer time away, and we enter into rhythms that are a little more...
September Brave Crate: FALLING for you!
Everything Inside of the Septmeber Brave Crate!!When I think about deployment countdowns my mind is tempted to immediately focus on this season as one of separation and disconnection. A time for wishing away days and waiting. What so many military spouse friends will...
