United States Department of Veterans Affairs

VA San Diego Healthcare System

From Warrior to Soul Mate: Empowering Couples to Joyful Living


The VA San Diego Healthcare System now offers relationship-building retreats for Veterans.  Our “From Warrior to Soul Mate: Empowering Couples to Joyful Living” retreat is designed to help couples grow in communication skills and emotional wisdom.  Practical tools empower couples to work toward a more fully loving and committed relationship. 

The four Primary Goals of the retreat are:

  • Promoting effective communication
  • Strengthening connecting and confiding
  • Effective decision-making and conflict resolution
  • Strengthening trust and commitment

Couples will experience hands on tools that help them address:

  • Stages of relationships
  • The relationship road map
  • Communication stress styles
  • Daily temperature reading
  • Talking tips
  • Love bank/caring behaviors
  • Emotional stages of development
  • Dirty fighting
  • Fair fight for change
  • Uncovering hidden expectations
  • Emotional allergies
  • Powergram/decision-making
  • Creating relationship agreements
  • The emotional jug

For more information, please call the VA San Diego Chaplain Service at (858) 642-3653.

 

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Related Links:
right arrow Chaplain Service
right arrow From Warrior to Soul Mate Brochure (pdf) 
right arrow Returning Service Members 
right arrow Women Veterans 

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