Free March 2021 Virtual Women Veterans Conference

Courage and Resilience: Strength through Adversity

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Over the last year, many of us called upon inner courage and resilience in ways that were possibly untested. Meeting the challenges of 2020 and what lies ahead in 2021 asks us to dig deep within our mental, emotional, and physical reserves to find new ways of relating to uncertainty. Perhaps you’ve remembered other times that your courage was tested, recounting moments when you developed strength through adversity.  

Events in our lives that are the most difficult can also produce tremendous growth in preparation for an unknowable future. Learning to adapt in new ways and develop resilience, which allows you to move through personal suffering, is one of the keys to cultivating loving kindness for ourselves and others during moments that feel insurmountable.  

Please join us on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 from 9:00 a.m. – Noon, Pacific Time, for a FREE, Virtual Women Veterans Conference where the Nevada Department of Veterans Services will explore and honor the strength, courage and resilience of women veterans.

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Featured Speaker: Shoshana Johnson, U.S. Army Veteran and Author of I’m Still Standing From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen – My Journey Home 

In gratitude for your service, the first 100 Women Veteran attendees from Nevada who register will receive a FREE autographed copy of Shoshana Johnson’s book, which will be shipped to you after the conference.

Also Speaking:

• Dr. Sarah Súñiga, U.S. Army Reserves Veteran, Clinical Psychologist and Women Veterans Program Manager, VA Portland Healthcare System
• Annie Emprima-Martin, Nevada Army National Guard Veteran and Nevada Women Veterans Advisory Committee Member

If you have any questions about this event, please contact: Beth Hemmila, Women Veterans Service Officer at: hemmilab@veterans.nv.gov.

Quotes to Inspire Courage & Resilience
She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

– Elizabeth Edwards

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

– Maya Angelou

Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

― Mary Oliver

A woman is like a teabag – only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that in me there lay an invincible summer.  – Albert Camus

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

 – Nelson Mandela

It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.

– Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

– Ernest Hemingway