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Why life review?
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You put your life on the line. Now put it on these lines.™ Your Military Life, Your Civilian Life (2012) is a life review/life story workbook for active duty troops and veterans exploring the many aspects of their military and civilian lives. Offers insight, purpose, new direction. A place to reflect.
History has recorded your military commitment to your country. Do you often think about what it all means to you as a current or former soldier, sailor, airman, Marine or veteran? How has your military service enriched or impacted your life? Maybe it's time to record your own life story.
we did not lay aside the Citizen."
— George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, American Revolutionary War
Your Military Life, Your Civilian Life is the first workbook offering military personnel and veterans a way to begin exploring and recording the events and experiences of their lives before the military, during service time and their return to civilian life. Self-exploration helps the reader situate the past. This viewpoint is not possible in the living present.
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Exploring of the past may help you to situate and wrap your mind around the past to better attend to the present, and may help shed light and guidance on the future--such as future goals, aspirations, or improving/honing interpersonal relations. Most information available to military personnel and veterans is insufficient for a truly effective life review and life story. In fact, it tends to amount to vague and unspecified reminiscing. This is fine; but this workbook offers guided themes, examples, worksheets. It helps you get some real work done on beginning a guided life review/autobiography
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A Soldier's Story
Ernest Hemingway wrote A Soldier's Story, a short story about the vagaries, self-doubt, and circumstances that weigh on a soldier's return from WWI. Seemingly autobiographical, Hemingway himself found inner peace elusive. Research suggests that writing about traumatic events can have a cathartic--or liberating--effect(1). Your Military Life, Your Civilian Life provides a structured place to begin this reflection.
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