BACK TO THE BASICS: Returning from Deployment
$29.99
Back to the Basics: A Military Family Guide to Reconnection After Deployment
By Calvin Smith, MA, LPC | Ordained Christian Counselor
Coming home is an event. Becoming a family together again is a process.
Back to the Basics is a practical reintegration guide created for service members, veterans, spouses, partners, and military families navigating the transition from deployment back into everyday family life. Rather than expecting everyone to simply “go back to normal,” the book recognizes that deployment changes the service member, spouse, children, routines, responsibilities, and relationships.
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Readers are guided through challenges involving reconnection, marriage, parenting, communication, emotional detachment, trauma and grief, household roles, conflict, intimacy, healthy coping, personal space, forgiveness, and rebuilding a shared future. The book also addresses the transition from operational or survival-oriented thinking toward greater presence, emotional connection, and participation in home life.
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This resource goes beyond reading. It includes a Companion Workbook with practical exercises such as a Reintegration Baseline, Expectations Inventory, Trigger & Regulation Map, Decompression Contract, Household Role Reset, Spouse Update Interview, Child Reconnection Plan, Family Sensitivity Dashboard, Intimacy Ladder, Coping Audit, Repair Conversation, and a structured 90-Day Reintegration Plan.
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Ideal for: returning service members and veterans, military spouses and couples, Guard and Reserve families, military-informed counselors and chaplains, and families seeking a structured way to reconnect after separation.
Your homecoming happened. Now build the home life you want to return to.
Additional support is available through self-paced courses, private counseling sessions, and Couples University through Center for Life Management, LLC.