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June Brave Crate: Celebrate
While it can feel overwhelming at times, this season of separation can teach us valuable lessons about efficiency and prioritization.
May Brave Crate: Chaos Coordinator
While it can feel overwhelming at times, this season of separation can teach us valuable lessons about efficiency and prioritization. Especailly right now, as many of us also manage new routines and challenges related to state-wide shutdowns, we are learning to stay flexibile and let go of things that are less than urgent. If you haven’t heard this lately, let me tell you: YOU are doing an amazing job- truly, you are a Chaos Coordinator.
Dealing with Delayed Homecomings: An Action Plan
The toxic combination of disappointment and exhaustion at the thought of doing this even longer was paralyzing. The painful truth that our choices and our plans are not truly our own right now cut deep, and everything felt out of control.
April Brave Crate: (Not) So Serious
Living life on the home-side of a deployment can seem like a heavy weight. By simply becoming open to joyful experiencing these things, we can begin to help ourselves shift focus away from the struggle and onto life’s little pleasures. Deployment is tough- but it is NOT So Serious.
80 Habits to Try While Counting Down Deployment
No matter what habits I’ve chosen to add to my life during deployment, they help me create normalcy and routine in a season that is anything but normal (PLUS, I have some super cool new habits to share with my spouse when he returns home!)
March Brave Crate: Blossom
What could you accomplish in the days leading up to homecoming? Could you meet your spouse at homecoming as the strongest, most resilient version of yourself?
8 Simple Ways to DATE Your Deployed Spouse
Deployment does not have to be a speed-bump in your relationship growth. Instead, military couples can use the season of deployment to explore their love in new and unique ways
February Brave Crate: Long Distance Love
By shifting my focus away from what we’re missing and onto what we’re learning about ourselves and each other in this season I’m encouraged to embrace the lovey-dovey aspect of this month of the year. Deployment can give us a unique opportunity to grow our relationship in ways that many other couples will never get to experience.
January Brave Crate: Goal Digger
What could you accomplish in the days leading up to homecoming? Could you meet your spouse at homecoming as the strongest, most resilient version of yourself?
December 2019 Brave Crate: Comfort & Joy
Instead of trying to ignore the end-of-year cheer, this month the Brave Crate community is embracing the moment and focusing on finding our own kind of Comfort & Joy.
November 2019 Brave Crate: Jo, My Gosh!
Here’s what I know: You are strong and brave and you can absolutely do this. (And you should totally eat that cookie dough or drink that glass of wine.) November is going to be a ton of fun. Let’s do this!
October 2019 Brave Crate: “All. The. Things.”
Here’s the thing: somehow military spouses actually DO manage to get it all done. This month our tribe is celebrating how well we can balance All. The. Things! Job scams are a widespread problem in the work-from-home arena. It is estimated that for every one legitimate remote job, there are approximately 60-70 job scams. Yikes! In this training session, Audrey Fairbrother, Marketing Manager for Boldly and remote work advocate will share 4 of her favorite tips on how to avoid scams and find a real remote position of your dreams.
