Maintaining Healthy Military and Veteran Relationships

Elizabeth Polinsky is a marriage counselor for military and veteran families, and the host of The Communicate & Connect Podcast for Military Relationships. In this episode, we talk about maintaining healthy military families. Links & Resources Communicate & Connect Podcast Relationship Email Course Elizabeth Polinsky on Instagram Elizabeth Polinsky on YouTube Transcript Scott DeLuzio   00:00:00    Thanks for tuning into the Drive On Podcast, where we're focused on giving hope and strength to the entire military community. Whether you're a veteran, active duty, guard, reserve, or family member, this podcast will share inspirational stories and resources that are useful to you. I'm your host, Scott DeLuzio, and now let's get on with the show. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Drive On Podcast. Today, my guest is Elizabeth Polinsky. Elizabeth is a marriage counselor in the Norfolk Virginia area, and she's also the host of the communicate and connect podcast for military relationships. In this episode, we're going to talk about military families and relationships,  and how they are affected by military service and after the military service and once when we become veterans. Welcome to the show, Elizabeth.   Elizabeth Polinsky   00:00:55    Thank you. I'm excited to be here.   Scott DeLuzio     00:00:57    Thanks. Why don't you give us a little bit about yourself, your background, and a little bit about what you do?   Elizabeth Polinsky    00:01:05     Gosh, where to start. I guess I get lots of questions about things like what led me to start focusing really on couples counseling with military couples. And that is pretty much what I do.  I guess that's the real short of it is that I'm a marriage counselor and I work mostly with military and veteran couples, but both my parents were a dual military couple and they ended up getting divorced and that was part of,  just like the challenges that they faced with military life. My mom got out of the military and then my dad stayed in and he actually retired from the Navy and he struggled a lot in relationships.  That was something that was always on my mind.  Then I started working for the department of veterans affairs.   Elizabeth Polinsky    00:02:03    I used to do a lot of individual and group counseling for the VA. I was one of the only providers who did a type of therapy called cognitive processing therapy for PTSD. also did a lot of work around sexual trauma. One of the things that stood out to me when I was working at the VA was that even though I had a lot of I was working with veterans around mental health. There was depression, anxiety, traumatic events type stuff going on. But a lot of them would tell me stories about things that had happened in their romantic relationships.  They would tell me that was the most painful part of their experience, or that was one of the hardest, that's not quite how you say that.  Most hard is not the right phrasing, but one of the hardest parts about their experiences with them, with all of their military experiences, was the pain that had happened in their romantic relationships.   Elizabeth Polinsky   00:03:09     When I moved to Norfolk, my husband is Navy. I'm a military spouse. When we got stationed here, I decided I wanted to switch to doing couples

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