Honoring Our Veterans

Hi Mamas - 

Behind every uniform is a story — and often, a mom. This Veterans Day, we honor the women who have balanced service and motherhood with grit and grace. Your resilience, leadership, and love make our communities stronger every single day. We see you, and we thank you. 

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-CARRY™ Team

 This week in The CARRY™ ALL, we’re talking about:

• 🇺🇸 A New Mission: Turning Service Into Sisterhood

• 👩‍👧‍👦 How to Honor a Veteran with Your Kids

•  🤝 Meaningful Ways to Give Back

THE BIG 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣

1️⃣  🇺🇸 A New Mission: Turning Service Into Sisterhood

In June 2025, a new nonprofit, The HeartSpace Collective, launched with a mission to fill a critical gap in support for women veterans.

Founded by four U.S. Army veterans — Jennie Choi, Audrey Iriberri, Monique Jesionowski and Cherise Lao — the organization held its inaugural retreat in Austin, TX for 12 women who served across different branches of the military.

Over four days, the participants engaged in holistic wellness activities: group dialogue, yoga, nature walks and therapeutic theatre — all designed specifically for the unique transitions women veterans face. The attendees represented more than 205 years of combined service and 17 combat deployments — and left the retreat with renewed hope and connection.

Because service doesn’t end when you hang up the uniform — and we honor these women for helping pave the way toward healing, purpose, and community for others who’ve served. 💛

2️⃣   👩‍👧‍👦 How to Honor a Veteran with Your Kids

Get your kids involved in showing gratitude this Veterans Day! Write a letter to someone who’s served, make cards for a local VA hospital, or put together a small fundraiser or care package for deployed troops. With the holidays coming up, it’s a perfect time to help kids connect service with kindness — and say a heartfelt thank you to those who’ve given so much. 💛

3️⃣  🤝 Meaningful Ways to Give Back

We know that as working mamas, time is precious — but that doesn’t mean we can’t find ways to show up and give back. 💛 

Here are some doable actions this week to love on a veteran in your community: it doesn’t have to be grand to feel personal. Support a veteran-owned or mom-founded business, drop off a meal or offer a ride to a family whose partner is deployed, or volunteer your time with a local veterans’ organization. One small act of care for you might mean the world to a veteran and their family. 💛

📰 IN THE NEWS

🚨 The Child Care Wake-Up Call

Reshma Saujani shared on CBS Sunday Morning about the child-care crisis — how it’s creating impossible choices for families and why our current system is stretched to its breaking point. She argues that caregiving shouldn’t be treated as a private burden, but as a public good — and that we need to rethink how we support working families, especially moms.

👉 Want the full story? Read her article here.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT 🤎
for the mom on mental overload

You know that feeling when your brain has 47 tabs open — school picture day, the grocery list, that one work email you swear you sent but definitely didn’t, and the sudden realization that you’re out of paper towels again? Yeah. That’s mental load overload.

Managing the invisible logistics of everything is heavy — the emotional glue holding work, home, and family together.

So this week, try this: pick one tab to close.
Say no to one extra thing. Order takeout instead of cooking. Let the permission slip live its best life at the bottom of the backpack for one more day. The world will keep spinning — promise.

Because carrying it all doesn’t make you a superhero.
Putting one thing down? That’s your superpower. 💪💛

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