FOCUS. FEARLESS. FIT.
LFT values and honors the service and sacrifice of Charlottesville’s military families by offering skill-building workshops and opportunities for engaging in community to help veterans and military families to grow personally and together.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Facing Deep Loneliness
Tuesday May 13 + May 20, 2025
6:30-8PM
FREE
Join LFT on Tuesday May 13 & 20 from 6-8pm to explore the ins and outs of the current epidemic of Deep Loneliness. Dr Dan Elash PhD will help us to understand loneliness better and how it impacts our lives. He will give us strategies to engage us and to help us build a stronger mind as we face our "aloneness" in the world. Mary Sherrill will be demonstrating how the addition of plant based nutrition can give our brains the fuel they need to face and fight loneliness, depression, and anxiety.
Location: 550 Buck Mountain Rd (Chestnut Grove Church) Earlysville, va 22936. In the basement.
Registration is required.
Living with Chronic Pain
Tuesday, Apr 29 2025
6-8PM
FREE
Join LFT to understand and manage your chronic pain better. Dr. Dan Elash, PhD will explain how pain works in our bodies and will help you to gain the skills to begin to manage it better without more medication. Mary Sherrill will be helping us to leverage our nutrition in positive ways to naturally reduce inflammation in our systems.
Location: 550 Buck Mountain Rd (Chestnut Grove Church) Earlysville, VA 22936. In the basement.
Registration is required.
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Fearless is BACK!
Friday, Mar 2 2025
5:30-7:30PM
FREE
Dinner & activities for all ages
Come join us for some wonderful family focused fun! Families don't always get enough fun time together to learn and grow. LFT is helping you carve out that time.
Theme: YOUR SUPER FAMILY!
Schedule: Dinner, Table activity, break out sessions.
Adult Options: Finding your purpose with Dr Dan
Book Club: Designing your Life with Derek & Emily Funk
All active-duty personnel, veterans, first responders and their adult (18+please) friends and family members are WELCOME!
Location: 550 Buck Mountain Rd (Chestnut Grove Church) Earlysville, VA 22936.
Wildrock Family FOCUS Day
Sunday Mar 23 12:30-3:00p
FREE
All active-duty, veteran and first responder families are welcome to join LFT for a quick lunch and lots of FUN! Your family will enjoy the Wildrock Playscape while also learning about the importance of listening to ourselves, the world around us and each other. New friends and old friends will be with us to share their time and talents. You don't want to miss this!
Registration is required.
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CULTIVATING LIFE THROUGH COMMUNITY.
Living Free Together shares real strategies with real military families
for restoring and strengthening relationships.
This community is so AMAZING! It is for all ages of active duty, veterans and /or their spouses and children from all branches of service in the US Armed Forces. There is always so much to talk about and learn:
- Spouse of US Army, Retired
By the Numbers
Our programs and events remain in forward motion year after year due to the dedication of our neighbors, friends, and countless community partners. Here are some notable numbers from 2023.
Participants surveyed were willing to invite friends
and family to join.
Enrichment programs are always free to
participants. Donations go directly to programs.
Months this year that various programs were offered.
Of families plan surveyed plan to participate in other
programs.
30+
95%
100%
100%
12
Families each year are supported and loved
family enrichment
family partnership
FIT-Mental Wellness
While the other workshops strengthen families, FIT programs are designed to address topics and issues that may be keeping adult military personnel, veterans, and first responders from truly thriving. Topics addressed may include living with trauma, employment enrichment, supporting each other, financial wellness and relational wholeness.
MY LIVING FREE STORY
“This program gives us the opportunity to learn as a family about how to communicate and plan better. It provides us with the challenge to observe and identify areas where we can improve our family together. ”
— US Army, Currently Deployed