Who Is Elizabeth Ash?

Elizabeth Ash is a wife of a deployed soldier. She is a real person, living her life. She breathes the same as you, cries the same as you, and loves the same as you. Her heart breaks for all of the spouses of military personnel - she knows the pains and struggles that you are going through, have gone through, or about to go through.

Elizabeth Ash is currently struggling through her husband's second deployment. Maybe you're on your first, or eighth, or somewhere in between. In a community so often told to stand strong, she feels that the spouses left behind are forced to suffer in silence - or be judged for not being supportive when they speak up about their struggles.

Elizabeth Ash is saddened by the lack of resources for those families that live in this world part-time: one foot in the civilian world, and one foot in the military world. Neither community fully understanding the challenges faced by part-time military families, and each community discounting their struggles.

She is saddened by the inter-community judgment between full time and part time military families - she believes that they are all on the same team, and should lift each other up.

Elizabeth Ash wants to speak up. Say the words we want to say, but are too scared to voice. She wants to pursue her passion for writing, a passion that has gone to they wayside due to life obligations. She is finding herself again in this new year, while trying to survive another deployment. She wants you to join her.

I, am Elizabeth Ash.

Unpublished work © 2014 Elizabeth Ash