Spouses & Children Services
Spouse’s Brain Based Healing
Spouses of military veterans can often experience secondary effects from the service members own mental health struggles. These can include emotions such as anger, anxiety, depression, guilt, isolation, feelings of being alone or hopelessness. This is especially challenging for the spouse if the veteran chooses not to receive their own help, no matter how hard the spouse shows up for their partner. This can leave the spouse tired, exhausted, emotionally drained and unable to meet their own needs or the needs of the others in the family. We recognize the lack of available resources for military spouses, and will support the spouse with brain-based healing visits whether or not the veteran chooses to seek their own support.
As part of our new spouse initiative, any service member who is going through our 5-day retreat will be connected to our Spouse Coordinator to receive information on what the veteran will be experiencing while at the retreat, how they can best support the veteran as they go through this transformation, what to expect as they return home from the retreat a different and better person, and get connected to a practitioner to receive their own brain based healing session while the veteran is attending the retreat so they can be on the same page when the veteran returns home.
Children’s Brain-Based Healing
Children growing up in a military family are exposed to unique situations only experienced by military children—the parent is gone for long periods of time due to deployments and training, there is a single head of the household, frequent moves to different states, and emotional outbursts particularly if the parent is experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress or other mental health struggles. Being in a household with a parent who is struggling with mental health challenges can affect everyone else in the household especially the children. With all those changes to the family system, behavioral issues or negative feelings could arise in the children.
Children may Exhibit:
- Confusion when the deployed parent returns to the family system and is now back in a parental role.
- Separation anxiety or fear of something bad happening if parent has multiple deployments.
- States of fear and anxiety due to the unpredictability of their parent’s emotional outbursts due to their parent’s mental health struggles, i.e. they become fearful not knowing what may trigger their parent.
- Feeling responsible for their parent’s reaction because they don’t understand mental health.
- Pushing away or repressing emotions because they don’t have the support to teach them how to manage or express emotions.
- States of worry about the mental health symptoms they see their parent experiencing.
- Stress of having to be in the parental role if their parent cannot care for themselves or the family as a whole.
- Feeling of instability or safety due to frequent moves as parent is stationed in many different places, which also prevents children from being able to build close connections with friends.
- Lack of identity or not having a sense of community due to constant moves.
Marriage Counseling
Brain Based Healing with a specialist in marriage counseling. For couples seeking to resolve issues preventing understanding, support, connection and intimacy in the partnership.
Couples Retreat
Veterans and their spouse enjoy a full day of experiencing our popular health and wellness approaches that include yoga and meditation, holistic health nutrition workshops to eat better together, as well as workshops and activities designed for couples to reconnect, strengthen relationship intimacy, enhance communication, conflict resolution, and building trust and teamwork with empowerment activities.
Thank you for all your involvement in our families wellbeing. I don’t know how else I would have been able to accomplish such a monumental feat. My family has been deeply affected by all the events that have taken place in the past 35 years of our lives. I am confident these events will shape us and make us stronger, but it is due to the team of wonderful, caring, loving supporting community at Operation Warrior Resolution that this plan is coming to fruition. I am forever grateful for the brain-based healing therapy in helping our young daughters release their past experiences and emotional attachments. They are now able to see clear once again. I am very confident that the Operation Warrior Resolution community effort is having a tremendous positive effect for all of us. Truly an asset to us all, lending ears, kind words of advice and years of expertise to help us understand ourselves better and recover from past trauma. Thank you once again for all the positive experiences you have provided for our family. I am grateful to be part of this wonderful team - Operation Warrior Resolution.