Lifegiver Mini Bracelet. A collaboration with Corie Weathers and her Lifegiver marriage enrichment platform. The Lifegiver Bracelet is a beautiful way for you to join in the Sacred Spaces marriage challenge. The Lifegiver bracelet keeps with the same blue color theme, but adds two Rose Quartz stones that symbolize two unfinished souls that are challenged to forgive, open their hearts, heal emotional wounds and establish peace. Wear it as an everyday reminder that you have more influence than you think to change the course of your marriage.

Do you feel you and your service spouse are living parallel lives?  Having so many significant experiences apart can often cause intimacy gaps in your relationship.  You end up wondering if this is what marriage is supposed to be like. In this webinar, I share some of the signs and symptoms of the service lifestyle pulling couples apart and what you can do to start closing that divide. This is a great webinar for those who are reading or have read my book Sacred Spaces: My Journey to the Heart of Military Marriage. I share how my trip changed my...

When US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter invited Corie, as the 2015 Armed Forces Insurance Military Spouse of the Year, to join his team on a one-week overseas holiday trip, she eagerly accepted, hoping to gain a better understanding of her husband’s deployment experience and lessen the impact sacred spaces had on her marriage. Corie didn’t choose the timing or circumstances of her trip with Secretary Carter—Christmastime, in the midst of her family’s second cross-state move in six months—but it seemed the perfect opportunity for Corie and Matt to gain a better understanding of each other’s perspectives.

In The Outpost, Jake Tapper gives us the powerful saga of COP Keating, from its establishment to eventual destruction, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of soldiers and their families, and to a place and war that has remained profoundly distant to most Americans. A runaway bestseller, it makes a savage war real, and American courage manifest. "The Outpost is a mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice. If you want to understand how the war in Afghanistan went off the rails, you need to read this book." -- Jon Krakauer