Keep Your Courage

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 Sarah's monthly letter Find Sarah on Instagram

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 about it. Sign up for Sarah's substack letter! Find Sarah on Instagram

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 Sarah's monthly letter

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 much. When we have those moments- what do we do? How do we make it? I have some stories, some thoughts, and some questions to encourage you. Find Sarah on Instagram! Sign up for Sarah's monthly letter

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 Sarah on Instagram! Sign up for Sarah's monthly letter

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 a Strong Marriage in a Stressful Life Episode 23: Know Your Spouse's World

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 move so much and keep the ship afloat on behalf of our family. What do we do with that? We explore all of it here. Find Sarah on Instagram! Related Episodes: Episode 94: Maybe This is Why You're Exhausted Episode 34: Rethink Your Vocation Episode 21: Remember Who You Are (and find her again if you've lost her)

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 another - listen in if you need encouragement that something is going to catch you when you fall. Other episodes mentioned: Episode 99 - What To Do When We Can't See What's Next Find Sarah on Instagram!

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!