For many veterans returning home from service, effective communication with loved ones can be a real challenge.
This is in part because veterans face high rates of PTSD, depression, and anxiety—but also due to an inability to properly express their emotions in a healthy way.
Healthy communication between veterans and their loved ones takes effort from both ends. However, veterans can take the first step to rebuilding and empowering their relationships through spiritual grounding.
If you’re a veteran struggling to communicate with your loved ones—I have been there. I spent fifteen years as an active duty military member.
Upon returning home, I had to channel my inner warrior and immerse myself in the practice of spiritual healing. There is hope for you.
Let’s get started on a communication guide so that you can start on your path to peace and fulfillment through loving relationships.
What is Effective Communication?
Effective communication is respectful, open, and never aggressive.
It’s easy to let frustration set in when attempting to communicate with your loved ones, because no one can truly understand the trials that you have been through.
But knowing when, what, and how to communicate can make it easier to open a loving and trusting space, where an exchange can take place.
It’s important to be a good listener. Remember that your loved ones are experiencing pain too. The more empathy you can muster, the more in touch you will feel with both your loved one’s lived experience and your own.
Communication is hard work.
It should never be about ‘winning’ and argument or about being ‘right.’ You should seek to more fully understand one another’s point of view, not persuade them.
Putting your ego to the side and trusting in your divine blueprint makes being ‘right’ feel far less important.
This is the power of spiritual healing—you can let go of fear, anger, and depression. You can be free.
Understanding Your Needs
No two people communicate in the same way—just as no two people heal in the same way.
It’s important to understand your needs and boundaries before communicating with your loved ones. And, you have to be prepared that, at times, your loved ones will not be able to meet those needs.
To realize this fact and forgive your loved ones for their humanity is deeply freeing.
I can’t express how often I’ve wished to speak with someone I loved to help release the pain and anger I felt over being mistreated by the government I served.
That’s why I created Ascended Warrior, to cultivate a community of individuals with shared experiences dedicated to healing through spirit.
When you feel heard by a community, less burden is placed on your loved ones to empathize with you on experiences that they cannot begin to understand.
Takeaways
Communication is never going to be easy.
But with a community of like-minded warriors who are committed to:
- Revolutionizing how they view themselves
- Illuminating their sacred life purpose
- Discovering how to learn and speak their truth
You can felt the dealing you deserve; the healing that is given to all of us in our divine blueprint.