Sacred Spaces: My Journey to the Heart of Military Marriage

Sacred Spaces: My Journey to the Heart of Military Marriage
ISBN-10
1934617342
ISBN-13
9781934617342
Series
Sacred Spaces
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2016-08-01
Publisher
Elva Resa Publishing
Author
Corie Weathers

Description

The vulnerable true story of a journey that changed a military spouse's perspective of deployment, herself, and her military marriage. "Corie shares insights we can bring into our own hearts to see our own relationships with new eyes."—Amy Bushatz, Executive Editor, Military.com "Your heart will break and heal with every turn of the page."—Taya Kyle, New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and executive director of the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation Like many military couples, Corie and her husband, Matt, an Army chaplain, accumulated significant unshared moments during Matt’s deployments. When Matt returned, he and Corie began using the term "sacred spaces" for significant moments they had experienced independently. After multiple deployments, sacred spaces were taking up a lot of emotional room in their relationship. 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. As Corie sat in the belly of a C-17, where her husband had said goodbye to the remains of friends and fellow soldiers, as she touched with her own hands the memorial at FOB Fenty and reflected on her grief as a care team member following the battle of COP Keating, Corie realized this journey was about much more than the push-pull of duty away from loved ones. This was a journey to the heart of her marriage, a place where she would have to leave behind her resentment in exchange for ground she and her husband had surrendered to hurt, misunderstanding, loss—and to Afghanistan. Corie set out on this trip hoping to gain a better understanding of her husband and his deployment experience, but along the way, she discovered a whole new perspective of herself and her military marriage. By sharing her story, Corie hopes to help other military couples strengthen their marriages. Multiple-Award-Winning Book Living Now Book Awards Gold Medal—Best Relationships/Marriage Book ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards finalist Midwest Book Awards Silver Featured on the TODAY Show as Kathie Lee’s "favorite thing."

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