This usually occurs between 4-6 weeks after your serving parent or loved one has returned home, although it can take longer depending on what type of deployment occurred. During this stage, normality seems to be resumed, and your relationship with your family may feel more relaxed and comfortable.
At this final stage, it’s important to think about your daily routine and what helps your mental wellbeing so that you can sustain positive wellbeing in the coming months.
It might be that you are already thinking about the next time they are going away. That’s okay and that’s why it is important to keep using the strategies and skills you have learned during deployment.
Have a look at our ‘Wellbeing Daily Plan’ to get you on track!
Wellbeing daily plan
Have a look at ‘This Way Up’ a ’poem co-created by young people and Rachel Bower (a wonderful creative writer) at our Your Mind Matters Residential.
Maybe you could have a go at writing your own story or find other creative ways to express it through drawing or even animation.
View poem
If you feel like you need further advice and support, Forces Children Scotland offer an Advisory service for children and young people from forces families.
We understand that life in armed forces and veteran families can be challenging. It can present unique experiences from deployment, moving to a new school, making the change to civilian life, and much more.
Our Advisory Service provides free, confidential advice to answer to your questions, from mental health and wellbeing, education and learning, making important transitions, children’s rights, and much more.
Please contact us if you think we can help and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
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