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On this week’s episode of Ruck Up Buttercup we had Lauren Lomsdale from The Work From Home Milspo on the show. She told us all about the different things she offers through her website and programs. And we discuss how military spouses can get involved with working from home. Being able to work from home is an opportunity that not everyone has but as a military spouse is a career that actually fits pretty well with our frequently moving lifestyle. We talk some benefits, and challenges of working from home.

To read more about The Work from Home Milspo be sure to check out Lauren’s Website here:

https://thewfhmilspo.com/about/

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On this week’s episode of Ruck Up Buttercup we are having a girl chat about what it means to slow down and honor the season of life you are in currently. Military life can be so hectic and there is always that “what’s next” mentality. But sometimes you really need to slow down, put your feet up and enjoy what you are doing now!!

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Season 4 Episode 5 United Through Reading

On this week's episode we are spot lighting a well known resource in the military community. United Through Reading; Vice President of Marketing and Communications. She spent this time with us explaining the amazing program of United Through Reading, where your service members can record themselves reading to you or your kids and then you are able to access the recordings during deployments. We talk about really creative and outstanding ways to use this resource to keep the connection with your military members as well as family members when you are stationed far away.

For more information check out United Through Reading here:

https://unitedthroughreading.org/

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Season 4 Episode 4 The Organized Military Life

On this week’s episode of Ruck Up Buttercup, we have the lovely Jana Arevalo from The Organized Military Life. She has grown a beautiful community for military families to find support, tips, and ideas on how to keep their military life organized. From blog articles about specific topics like PCS, and Decluttering, to Monthly calendars with Decluttering challenges Jana has some amazing resources you just need to hear about.

She joined us today to give us some insight into how to find an organization system that will fit into your life. Military life really makes this part of life challenging. We move from house to house regularly and trying to make your things fit into different houses is not easy. Enjoy this episode and some great insight into making things easier.

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https://theorganizedmilitarylife.com/

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This week on Ruck Up Buttercup we had the lovely Tara Brown as a guest to give her perspective on living overseas with kids. We talk about school, living with different cultures, experiences your kids will have, as well as Travel Travel Travel.

We hope that if you are considering moving overseas this will give you a better idea of what to expect, and answer any questions you may have. You are surrounded by awesome military families who will have lots of stories and suggestions. Join our Facebook Group Deployed Love-Hearts Connected and you can grow your community across the world.

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In this episode we are talking about a subject that is really hard to approach. We know that our military members need to have good mental health in order to most effectively complete the mission. However, the military also comes with many different types of trauma. From basic training to deployments each person experiences things that will affect how they portrait the world going forward. Unfortunately for a lot of military members they are going to suffer from PTSD, Anxiety, or Depression.

We are hopeful that mental health will continue to become a more talked about topic as you will hear from our guest Lara Brown-Akerstrom today that sadly it’s not always approached as it should. We all know the all to daunting statistic of 20 veterans per day die by suicide as a result of lack of treatment or failed treatment for mental disorders. (Mental Health First Aid) We hope by speaking on the issue, it will bring more awareness and hopefully reach the concerned ears of the right person.

As military spouses this isn’t a statistic to us, this is our spouses, and our friends they are talking about. Suffering in silence and waging a war inside their heads that we can’t see. Reach out to your military family, keep in contact, know the signs and suggest resources. Because although you may feel annoying and persistent, there is something to be said for simply having people acknowledge your struggle.

Resources:

Mental Health First Aid: https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/veterans-military/

Cohen Clinic: https://centerstone.org/cohen-military-family-clinic/

Military One Source: https://www.militaryonesource.mil/

Brandon Act: https://thebrandonact.org/

Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: https://988lifeline.org/

Wreaths Across America: https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/

Fischer House: https://fisherhouse.org/

Gold Star Families: https://www.militaryonesource.mil/casualty-assistance/survivor-support/honoring-gold-star-families/

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