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MWi diligently sources expert content and curates compelling weekly articles. This process takes into account a range of factors, including member surveys, community feedback, seasonal trends, health observances, and annual programs.

Sleep

When the Night Doesn’t Come Easy

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Reading time: 5 Minutes MWi Hack: If nightmares are disrupting your sleep, try this: the next time one wakes you, write it down in brief…

Understanding Sleep

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Reading Time: 2 Minutes MWi Hacks: Set a consistent wake time for the next seven days — your body clock will begin to reset itself…

Sleep Awareness Week

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Reading Time: 6 Minutes MWi Hacks: Sleep is a family mission — start with your own routine, recognize when service-connected challenges require more than discipline…

Eat

How to Navigate a Summer Cookout with Diabetes, Hypertension, or Weight Goals

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Reading time: 5 Minutes MWi Hack: Before the next cookout, eat a normal meal or snack with protein and fiber. Show up fed, not starving.…

Can What You Eat Lower Your Cancer Risk?

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Reading time:  5 Minutes MWi Hack:  Add one plant-based food to every meal this week — beans, fruit, leafy greens, or whole grain — because…

Eating Disorder Awareness Week

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Reading time:  5 Minutes MWi Hack:  Eating disorders affect up to 18.5% of women Veterans and 8.5% of men Veterans, significantly higher than many realize,…

Move

Exercise and Hydration in the Summer Months

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Reading time: 5 Minutes MWi Hack: Summer doesn’t suspend the training requirement. But military and veteran communities are conditioned to push through discomfort, and heat…

Movement During Transition: Building Structure When Everything Is Uncertain

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Reading time: 5 Minutes MWi Hack: Block a 20-minute movement window on your calendar every morning this week — not to get fit, but to…

Actively Support Your Mental Health and Stress Patterns

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Reading time: 5 Minutes MWi Hack: Commit to 20 minutes of any movement three times this week — your brain will register the change before…

Relate

The Person Who Stayed in Your Corner: Mentorship in Military Life

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Reading time: 5 Minutes MWi Hack: One thing to do this week- pick the one that fits: If someone shaped you: Write their name down.…

PTSD: The Conversation Nobody Wants to Start

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Reading time: 5 Minutes MWi Hack: One thing you can do this week — pick one, based on where you sit: If you're the Veteran:…

Boots, Sunlight and Somebody to Walk With

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Reading time: 5 Minutes MWi Hack: Pick one person you'd want next to you and send this text today: "Saturday morning. Trail. You in?" Don't…

Identity

The Oath: A History

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Reading time: 5 Minutes MWi Hack: This week, read the oath aloud. The full text takes about 30 seconds. Most people who took it haven't…