Couples Retreats

OWR’s mission is to transform veterans to health and wholeness, which also includes the family as a whole. Join us for a full day of workshops designed for couples to reconnect, strengthen relationship intimacy, enhance communication, conflict resolution, and building teamwork. Join a tribe of veterans and their spouses dedicated to improving all aspects of health and wellness for themselves and their families. Lunch is included.

Spouse’s Brain Based Healing

Spouses of military veterans can often experience secondary effects from the service members own mental health struggles. These can include emotions such as anger, anxiety, depression, guilt, isolation, feelings of being alone or hopelessness. This is especially challenging for the spouse if the veteran chooses not to receive their own help, no matter how hard the spouse shows up for their partner. This can leave the spouse tired, exhausted, emotionally drained and unable to meet their own needs or the needs of the others in the family. We recognize the lack of available resources for military spouses, and will support the spouse with brain-based healing visits whether or not the veteran chooses to seek their own support. 

Children’s Brain-Based Healing

Children growing up in a military family are exposed to unique situations only experienced by military children—the parent is gone for long periods of time due to deployments and training, there is a single head of the household, frequent moves to different states, and emotional outbursts particularly if the parent is experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress or other mental health struggles. Being in a household with a parent who is struggling with mental health challenges can affect everyone else in the household especially the children. With all those changes to the family system, behavioral issues or negative feelings could arise in the children.