My trip to Fort Lewis was a full one! Three events in one trip. I had the honor to again speak with the spouses of special ops soldiers. They have a special place in my heart as they go through a rapid tempo of deployments and trainings.
The first event was with a small group who went through Sacred Spaces as a Bible Study. I joined them on the group FB page at various points to connect and encourage them.
They gave me the best gift ever- one of their group shirts that just happened to have the WW logo on it 🙂
Next up: and evening of empowering some of the strongest, most elite spouses I have ever met. We talked about resiliency, but more importantly GRIT
The following weekend was an opportunity to do another Strengths event for the Fort Lewis PWOC ladies. We went to a gorgeous camp site where we stayed in cabins that looked like train cars. It was a fantastic event that ended in a powerful prayer the ladies did over me and my friend Sarah. I so love these ladies and their prayers (and yours) have more of an impact than you could know.
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Corie Weathers, LPC, BCC, NCC
Catch up on Past Briefs:
Brief 02: The Rhetoric of Lethality
The vocabulary of and toward the military has narrowed to a single attribute — and the person who carries it has been edited out.
Maximum lethality. Hunt, and kill. Without mercy. None of it is wrong — they are warfighters. But this brief traces where that register has worked, where it has failed, and what it asks of the people who must live inside it.
Brief 01: Follow the Money: The Warrior Ethos, Redefined
The FY2027 $350 billion mandatory defense request, and what the Warrior Ethos banner funds now.
The language calls it the Warrior Ethos. The scope has changed. This brief walks through three connected shifts in 2026 — in words, money, and how the institution treats the people who sustain the force — and what they mean for military families.