Life After Deployment: Military families share reunion stories and advice [Paperback]

Karen M. Pavlicin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0965748375 | ISBN-13: 978-0965748377 | Publication Date: January 12, 2007 | Edition: 1

Life After Deployment captures the tender and moving stories of military families during their reunion. Service members and their spouses, parents, fiancées, and children share the joy and anxiety of homecoming, the adjustments of living together again, and how they coped with anger, depression, PTSD, injuries, grief, and other challenges. Some families had fairytale endings. Most worked hard to rebuild their relationships after much time and change. A few suffered great losses. These military families talk candidly about what their experience was really like, offering hope and advice to others who walk this journey.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I felt so guilty for a lot of the emotions I'd had during my husband's deployment and reunion. And now, we are going through it all again with our son. It's such a comfort to find out I'm not alone! I was incredibly touched by these stories. Thank you so much for blessing us with this book, your keen insights, and amazing honesty." --Julie LaBelle, military wife and mom

About the Author

Karen Pavlicin is the award-winning author of Surviving Deployment: A guide for military families. Known for her practicality, inspirational insight, and sense of humor, Karen helps military families across the United States turn the challenges of deployment and reunion into positive, rewarding experiences.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Elva Resa Publishing; 1 edition (January 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965748375
• ISBN-13: 978-0965748377
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #783,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karen Pavlicin is an award-winning writer known for her practicality, inspirational insight, and sense of humor. An accomplished business leader, hall of fame athlete, and singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after keynote speaker on a variety of topics.

Karen's challenging yet positive experiences during her Marine husband's many deployments, and her volunteer work with military families, inspired her to write Surviving Deployment: A Guide for Military Families and lead military family workshops. She wrote Life After Deployment: Military Families Share Reunion Stories and Advice to help with the many challenges military families face during their reunions. Her poem "Love Letters" in Military Life: Stories and Poems for Children was inspired by her son's love note on the pantry door and the more than 800 handwritten letters she exchanged with her husband during his deployments. Karen regularly consults with family organizations, counselors, and schools to support military families.

Karen's personal experience raising her young son following the death of her husband, as well as her wonderful childhood memories at her Grandma's house inspired her multiple-award-winning children's novel Perch, Mrs. Sackets, and Crow's Nest.

Karen created the Circle of Catholic Women journal series in response to the desire of women in her church community to reflect on their faith in their daily lives and share their faith journey with other women.

Karen's independent record label, Andermax Records, donates 100% of the profits from her music CD, Little Bit of Faith, to cancer research.

She loves photography, a colorful sky, and the challenge and blessings of her new blended family life in Minnesota.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help for the Military Family, October 15, 2007

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Andrew Lubin "author of Charlie Battery; A Ma... (Bucks County, Pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life After Deployment: Military families share reunion stories and advice (Paperback)

"Life After Deployment" is author Karen Pavlicin's sequel to her award-winning book "Surviving Deployment". Mrs. Pavlicin has written another important book for the military family and their friends and relatives.

The writer is a wife of a Marine with multiple deployments, and this book deals with the many problems faced by wives and families when their servicemen return from deployment. These are not theoretical problems - these are the problems faced by too many families today: dealing with the children - re-establishing parental authority - PTSD - intimacy issues...plus how to best handle combat deaths and injuries...this book is filled with practical solutions Mrs. Pavlicin has elicited from the thousands of wives and families who have - and are - facing these issues.

With so few Americans volunteering to serve in the military (approx 0.07 % of the population), there is a deplorable lack of data and professional assistance for these families; most therapists have no clue how to deal with the anger of a child whose father died in Iraq or came home missing a limb from an IED attack in Afghanistan - this book is the first step to filling that void.

This book should be given to every spouse as his or her serviceman steps off the airplane back onto US tarmac. Well-written and thorough, the issues raised here are important ones that these families need to recognize and face, and Mrs. Pavlicin - the widow of a multiple-deployed Marine - does a first-rate job taking care of her now -over-extended military family. High Recommended !!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful tool for todays military families, February 19, 2007

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Alanna Schmidtke - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life After Deployment: Military families share reunion stories and advice (Paperback)

In my opinion this book is a must have for todays military families facing the deployments they are facing. There are many stories to help you realize that you are not alone, how others have dealt with the uncertainty of deployment and reunion. It is also filled with tips and links to help you along your journey.
Reading this book will not only help you to understand what todays families face it also gives encouragement in knowing that not only are others facing the same things you are but that you can do this just as many other families have done in the past and will continue to do in the future.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book for military families, May 2, 2010

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This review is from: Life After Deployment: Military families share reunion stories and advice (Paperback)

This is a useful book for families having to deal with a deployment and related issues.