Like male service members, women often return home emotionally exhausted. But, Hawthorne said, many mothers are thrust back into caretaker roles the moment they return from war. They get no time to readjust, even though the military advises service members to take time off to decompress once they return home.
“We learn to shut down but still function” while deployed, said Hawthorne, a veteran who served in both Desert Storm and Iraq. “When we come home, it’s hard to flip the switch. It’s like, you look OK, you sound OK, so you must be the same person that left 12 months ago. But in actuality, they’re not. Women are supposed to be the nurturers of families, but when they come home, that’s when the female needs to be nurtured.”
- For many women, returning home from war means a new challenge: being moms again, Statesman.com, May 1, 2010.
2. The actress admits she’s a huge fan of Food Network and uses televised kitchen demonstrations to “decompress” on sets.
She explains, “I watch a lot of cooking shows. I go through stints where it’s on TV constantly and I get sick of it and have to turn it off but I’m, like, really kind of obsessed with cooking.”
And her love of cookery shows has helped her perfect her own culinary skills: “When I was doing Breaking Dawn I made soup constantly because it was freezing cold and I made big pots of it so everyone could have some. I would bring it to work and share it.”
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