The Milspouse Battle Rhythm: Communicating Resilience Throughout the Deployment Cycle

With the stressors of deployments on military families, it is essential that military spouses find ways to promote resilience during the deployment cycle. Military spouses' view of resilience and coping during deployment were analyzed for overarching themes. Results suggest that military spouses have a shared narrative of being strong, resourceful, positive, and productive and of providing social support to one another to promote resilience.