Reddit reviews This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are

Check out "This is Where You Belong : Finding Home Wherever You Are." - A lot of people seem to wait for a community to reach out to them and make them feel at home, but you've got to make the effort. Simple things like spending less time in your car and more time walking in your neighborhood will make you feel more connected to the place you live.

It very often takes more than one try to find the right counselor and medication for you. Military One Source offers free confidential counseling, and it can be in-person, over phone, video chat, or even text chat. I agree with the other commenter that mental health should be priority one. Until you can start to work through this anxiety, progress in other areas will be much more difficult. Yes, it will still be hard. Nothing will change the facts of the situation. But anxiety and depression (and pregnancy hormones) are taking it from hard mode to nearly-impossible mode. What you can change is how you can cope, how much you dwell and get sucked down into the negatives, and your outlook.

I live in a rural area too and it sucks. But sometimes I'm choosing to let it suck. I'm letting myself be unhappy. This book sort of helped me to realize ways I can improve that.

Jacksonville is a huge city. I lived there 4 years, loved how much there was to do. A license will be a definite necessity, but there are so many awesome things to do with kids there. The military presence is huge so there will be a lot of people in your same situation. I'm also not an independent person and did a 7 month deployment (plus workups from 2 to 6 weeks, all in all about 12 months apart) while there. It was hard, I could've gone to live at home (12 hours away), but I wanted to grow as a person and prove to myself that I could do it. Other spouses went through the same thing and we got very close because of it.