Breathing Exercises

Soft-Belly Breathing Exercise

Stress can build up in the body. Try this simple breathing exercise the next time you are feeling overwhelmed.

10-Minute Meditation

Take ten minutes to focus your mind on the breath in this mini reframing stress meditation. Stress takes on many forms, especially when a day has felt particularly challenging. Nothing can change the circumstances, but this exercise teaches you how to notice what you're holding onto and how to drop the preoccupying storyline, allowing you to reframe stressful situations.

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RESOURCES

Vet Centers

Vet Centers offers confidential help for Veterans, service members, and their families at no cost in a non-medical setting. Their services include counseling for needs such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the psychological effects of military sexual trauma (MST). And can connect you with more support in VA and your community.

Vet Center Call Center

1-877-927-8387 is a free, around the clock confidential call center where Veterans, service members and their families can talk about their military experience or any other issue they are facing in transitioning after military service or trauma and get connected to their nearest Vet Center. Our call center team is comprised of combat Veterans from several eras as well as family members of Veterans.

Family Resources

Anonymous Groups

Substance Addiction

Al-Anon – For friends and family of alcoholics: https://al-anon.org/

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) - For people with alcohol addiction. https://www.aa.org/

Cocaine Anonymous (CA) – For people with cocaine addiction https://ca.org/

Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) – For people with methamphetamine addiction https://www.crystalmeth.org/

Heroin Anonymous (HA) – For people with heroin addiction https://heroinanonymous.org/

Marijuana Anonymous (MA) – For people with marijuana addiction https://marijuana-anonymous.org/

Nicotine Anonymous - For people with nicotine addiction https://www.nicotine-anonymous.org/

Pills Anonymous (PA) – For people with prescription pill addiction https://www.pillsanonymous.org/

Behavioral Addiction

Gamblers Anonymous (GA) – For people with gambling addiction http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/

Emotions Anonymous (EA) – For people with mental and emotional illness https://emotionsanonymous.org/

Overeaters Anonymous (OA) – For people with food addiction https://oa.org/

Sex and Love Anonymous (SLAA) – For people with sex addiction https://slaafws.org/

Other 12 Step Meetings

Celebrate Recovery – Faith based https://www.celebraterecovery.com/

Refuge Recovery – Faith based https://www.refugerecovery.org/

Wellbriety – Native American https://wellbriety.com/

SMART – Self-empowered recovery https://www.smartrecovery.org/