A Sweeter Hello

by Erin Winters, Kaitin Röckle (Illustrator)

Goodbyes are real hard, but I'm figuring out
That the going is not all this trip is about.
The harder it feels when you have to let go,
The more it will make for a sweeter hello.

Being in a military family comes with unique challenges that can be hard for kids to understand. When a child's parent goes away on deployment, there can be big emotions, confusion, uncertainty, and stress throughout the family unit.

Written by a military spouse and Licensed Professional Counselor, A Sweeter Hello offers therapeutic tools for coping with deployment, normalizes and validates the child's experience, and nurtures positivity in hard times and looking forward to their parent's homecoming.

37 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 4, 2023

About the author

Erin Winters grew up in Raleigh, NC and currently resides in Lynchburg, VA with her husband and son. When she was little she wrote many stories she would likely be appalled to rediscover now, and wanted to be an author around the same time she wanted to be a dolphin trainer. Neither panned out at first, but Erin started writing on the side in August 2017. She started training in the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga around the same time, and enjoys putting bits and pieces from those experiences into her books. Erin also loves steak and potatoes, board games, and curling up in fuzzy socks with a cup of hot chocolate.