Army Retiree and Military Sexual Assault Survivor Monica Meeks

Monica is a Veteran’s PATH retreat alum. She spent 20 years in the United States Army before she retired in Fort Campbell, KY in 2012. During her 20 years she deployed to Haiti, Iraq and Kuwait. Now she’s working for the State of Tennessee as a Financial Services Investigator. She’s married to a retiree and they have a 14 year-old son and a dog. Monica is a survivor of military sexual trauma and receives counseling through the VET Center. On the episode we talk about that and her overcoming this through sisterhood, mindfulness, yoga and sharing her story. In a showing of the play The Vagina Monologues, Monica performed an original monologue calling for attention to sexual assault survivors who have served in the military. She attended her first Veteran’s PATH retreat in Beckwith almost three years ago and recently attended a second retreat in October in California.