Keep Your Courage

In military world, we feel the chaos and transition of the PCS season whether we are the ones moving or not. There is such a rhythm of change this life that even if we are the ones staying, in many ways we still feel the newness of having to start over when our people had to move. I have found these are the best places to learn to build trust. Listen in for how. Read Sarah's Substack! 

During times of complete military chaos like PCS season, I want to walk around with a poster board exclaiming "Do you see me and everything I'm having to do?!" We go through so much during a move but it is so much more than just changing location from one place to another. If you're in the middle of a move, an exhausting season, or just need to be reminded that you're not alone, listen in.  Read S...

In a lifestyle like the military when everyone else around you is living a similar pace- and chaos!- it's easy to not notice how very much you carry as it all just blends together. But every little bit of it adds up to the making of our lives, the beautiful and the hard parts of it. If you need a reminder to pause for a moment to pay attention to it all, even in the chaos of a summer military move...

Place is a main character in our story in the military life - as it changes frequently when either we have to change places, friends are leaving to change places, or Daddy might be going to a different place for a time. Maybe today you need the reminder that though pcs season can make us feel especially tender on behalf of our kids, we can believe that goodness and love and beauty chase after us n...

A special summer season dedicated to the ones PCSing with the miltary. No matter if this is your first move or your tenth, this is a special level of stress in this military life that can take us to the end of ourselves. If you're feeling a little untethered today, not really belonging to one place anymore before you belong to your next, it might actually be the exact best place for you to be to b...

This time of year, you might be aware that this season is supposed to be the season of hope, peace, joy, and love... but you can't quite see it. Even in the dark seasons, there's a way to get through. Listen in. Sign up for Sarah's monthly letter Find Sarah on Instagram!  

Chances are that you might be entering the holiday season already weary. Maybe you just moved and the dust is still settling. Maybe you have a new job or a new baby or a new life rhythm and it's hard to imagine how you're going to keep going... and yet you must. How do you begin a season when you're already tired? Well, I have some thoughts and a few ideas that might help. Listen in. Sign up for S...

It's so easy to see whatever on-ramping season you're in right now as the transitional period you have to live in in order to get you to THAT place in your life when it feels more settled or you have your group of friends or the baby is a little bit older or you find that elusive work/life balance and things buff out a little, but there's a better way to make it through these days. We'll talk all...

Sometimes life feels like you're in the middle of the miracle. And then sometimes it feels like you got walloped by a curveball. What do you even do with that? Listen in, we talk all about it. Sign up for Sarah's monthly letter Find Sarah on Instagram!

Sometimes it can feel like nobody understands the toll that the military life takes- the uncertainty, the demands from constant interruptions, how many people need us but we need to keep going even when our own heart is broken. If you feel alone, unseen, like maybe no one understands what it's really like to live as a military wife, this episode is for you. Find Sarah on Instagram! Sign up for Sar...

One of the most common experiences I hear from military wives is best summarized with "I'm just trying to get through today." Not all, but so much of military life is lived in those threadbare places- overwhelmed from a move, exhausted in the middle of a deployment, stressed from finding work or parenting solo or longing for friends. It's hard to get perspective when your right-now life demands so...

I bet I'm not the only one where my life doesn't necessarily look the way I thought it would or fit in a neat and tidy box. There's so much about military life that forces us into creativity- to look at something in a new way to see how it has actually been serving us or how we have been serving others. As hard as it is, I think this is a good thing. Let me show you what I mean. Listen in. Find Sa...

There's so many seasons of life, and especially in military life, when stressors aren't necessarily going to disappear. We can't exactly control any of that. But there are some things we can control, and today's episode might give you something you need to make it through your next stressful moment. Listen in. Find Sarah on Instagram! Sign up to receive Sarah's monthly letter 

If proximity builds connection, what do we do when so much of our military marriage is spent not in proximity to each other? Is it still possible to to have a strong connection and marriage? I fully believe it does, and I want you to experience it, too. Find Sarah on Instagram! Sign up for Sarah's monthly letter Related episodes: Episode 83: How a Broken Marriage Can Be Strong Episode 52: Building...

It's not always easy or simple to build community and I know how it feels if it's been lonely and hard. But I have found my save-my-life girls by showing up again and again with the determined belief that my girls are out there. Let's talk about making friends in the military life. Sign up for Sarah's monthly letter! Find Sarah on Instagram Related Episodes: Episode 6: Pray Small

In this hard military life, the most important way I have found to make it through is by finding connection with others. But it's also so, so important to remain connected with your own self, stay in tune with your desires and purpose and passion in life and make sure you're playing the note you're supposed to play. I have also found this is the piece of milso life that is most easily lost as we m...

The thing about being a mom is that we give our kids what they need- even if we might need the same exact thing ourselves. But sometimes, the reassurance that we need to make it through a hard time comes in the most unlikely of places. Listen in and I'll show you. Find Sarah on Instagram!

In this military life especially, we are faced with so many opportunities where we don't control our own future or don't know what's coming next. In other words, we need to trust that it's going to be okay a lot. On my better days, I am able to do this with an adventurous and open heart. On my not better days, I hate it. You might be feeling the instability of this life right now in one way or ano...

If you're feeling a little threadbare from being a military spouse, if you need encouragement from the real side of military life, or if you can feel yourself spinning in anxiety or uncertainty or chaos or just plain overwhelm, you're not alone and you're in the right place. Listen in for a little extra boost in finding support to remain- or become- strong. Find Sarah on Instagram!

I really think we're given such an opportunity in this military life: We are asked to go through some of the very hardest things a marriage can go through, but because of that, it can build some of the very strongest bonds a marriage can have. Let's talk about it. Find Sarah on Instagram!

I think I've gone through the whole spectrum of New Year experiences- the hope and fresh start that a new year brings, all the way on down to complete cynicism when it feels like we have no control over our life anyway? How then, do we move forward when both are maybe a little bit true? I have some ideas. Listen in. Find Sarah on Instagram!

As we walk toward Christmas, there's going to be a lot of ways we experience the mixture of darkness and light. Our work? Find the light. Find Sarah on Instagram!