Where I Find Rest

It is possible to be surrounded by people who love you and still feel profoundly alone in your experience as a veteran. Your family may not fully grasp what your service meant, cost, or changed in you — through no fault of their own.

Where or with whom do you feel most able to simply exist — without performing strength, motherhood, or service? If nowhere yet, what would that space look like?

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