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Top Essential Oils for a Fire Family – Destress, Detox, and Degunk
Stress? Check. Sleepless nights? Check. Meals on the run? Check. Impaired lung function? Check. Anxiety? Check. Toxins and carcinogens galore? Check. It is not just the firefighter experiencing heightened emotions and physical changes in the fire life. The families...
Join Us For The Power of a Praying Fire Wife
Join us in the Christian Fire Wife Sisterhood as we pray through the Power of Praying Wife together. Marriages are so under attack. Evil forces are constantly trying to pull us apart, distort our words, plant seeds of doubt and destroy us with addictions. But we have...
Detoxing Your Fire Family
Gone are the days when a fireman who swaggers around covered in soot smelling like smoke is the sexiest thing alive. We now know the dangerous carcinogens that are carried in that soot and smoke. I’m not talking your run of the mill fall Friday night bonfire smoke....
Your Fire Family’s Health: Can you fix a bad mood?
I’m not one to throw around excuses. My personal belief is that we’ve got to own our stuff, recognize what’s going on and be self-aware of our own triggers and reactions. This is so easy to write and so hard to live. We all have those days when we just can’t seem...
Keep the Love Fires Burning Over the Distance
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely." Charles M. Schultz I am going to be honest, there were times I wasn't sure we would make it through and still be together in the end. But there were also times when I was flying high on...
How To Watch a Fire Movie With Your Firefighter
Firefighter movies. You cannot escape them as a fire wife, nor should you in my opinion. Whether it's watching live burns on Youtube videos or the ritualistic watching of Ladder 49 or Backdraft (with all the commentary as to what's real and accurate and...
What to Say to Your Firefighter When He’s Had a Bad Call
You can feel the air turn tense before a word is even said. You know it was a bad shift. Something must have happened to make such a drastic change in your firefighter. Maybe he is angry, or silent, or sad....you just know something isn't right. Do you ask about it?...
Fire Family Freezer Cooking
The challenge has been thrown down. My husband was giving me those looks all summer when someone said "what's for dinner?" Our crazy spring schedule is still in the recent uncomfortably hungry memories. This fall we will NOT be left without dinner options. I...
When a Firefighter is Irritable, Grumpy, and Disengaged When He’s Home
This article is so important because we’ve all been there yet so few admit it and talk about it. There is no shame in relating to this or even sharing this post. You never know who is suffering and needs these words. Let’s just start with these words straight from the...
Support for West Virginia – Fire Family Response
SUPPORT WEST VIRGINIA 24-7 COMMITMENT Fire Family Response 24-7 COMMITMENT's mission is to strengthen marriages and families of first responders. First responders see so much tragedy and give so much to their communities which brings stress to their own...
It’s Raining…It’s Pouring…And I Couldn’t Be Happier!
My wife and I downsized over a year ago from a beautiful home on five acres in the country, to a starter community in the suburbs. Our financial situation, precipitated by a wake up call from Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University, opened up a large wound in...
Join Us At Global Leadership Summit August 11-12, 2016
Hanging on my bulletin board next to my computer is a list I called #GLS15 Commitments. It is one of the only pieces of paper that hasn't moved or been shuffled out, except to give me a better view. That's impact. That's something that made such a strong...
Celebrating Dads…. Fire Family Style
Celebrating Dads.....Fire Life Style Firefighting can be very much a family tradition. Of course we all know how having a firefighter in your family can shape your family journey. I especially love to honor Dad's for just being dad's on Father's day. Was...
Honor and Commitment – Online Book Study
Finally: the resource you need to live with Honor and Commitment,both at home and on the job. This book study is for everyone. Firefighters, fire wives, anyone in the fire service. You can participate in this study alone or create a group study with...
Shift Night Chatter – May 31st – Fire Life Transition to Summer!
Join us on Facebook Live! Summer is here! Come and interact with us, ask questions, share tips...How do you handle the transition to summer in the fire life? Spend shift night with us and other awesome people who get the fire life. Details HERE.
Create Your Own Commitment Weekend “at home”
Not every one can make it to a Commitment Weekend for one reason or another, but you can still have your very own Virtual Commitment Weekend at home! We're COMMITTED to sharing ways that you can reconnect with your spouse without even having to leave...
Finding Fire Wife Friends
A friend who just "gets it" Whether that one friend who just "gets it" is in the fire life or not, hang tight to that friend! So often in this life, not to mention all the seasons through this life, we are crazy busy and our time as a family is treasured, and our...
Top Things to Do When Your Firefighter is on Shift
Our Time Together is Kind of a Big Deal... How do you prioritize your schedules when your firefighter is on shift? Do you have certain things that only happen on a shift day/night so you can make the most of every moment when they get home? On last week's Shift Night...
Shift Night Chatter – May 11 – Finding Fire Wife Friends
Join Us On Facebook Live! Ask questions, interact with each other...... spend your shift night with some quality people. Details at this link.
Things You Wish You Knew When You Were a New Fire Wife
Shift Night Chatter: Things You Wish You Knew As A New Fire wife There are so many things I can think back on and wish I knew when I was a brand new fire wife. This was the inspiration for this week's Shift Night Chatter and it struck a chord as we had nearly 500...
There’s Nothing I Can Say About Motherhood That Hasn’t Already Been Said… Except This
Each year I search for words that are fresh and new to describe the enormity of motherhood which encourage, honor and lift up mom's everywhere. Then I struggle with the emotions, like all nurturing, big hearted women do, for the broken hearted women who are unable...