When we relocate abroad: “Our self-identity is shaken up and we may have to renegotiate or redefine that identity by integrating our new experiences and reactions into our “old self”” Elisabeth Marx, Breaking Through Culture Shock. When I think back to my “old self” the one who lived in the UK and never expected to [...]
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Careers Abroad When You are a +1….A Global Niche Chat
In January Tara Agacayak and Anastasia Ashman from Gobal Niche.net invited my colleague Evelyn Simpson (The Smart Expat) and I to join them in their Linqto room (An online communication portal) to discuss the experience of accompanying partners in relation to their career. The discussion was called: Careers abroad when you’re a +1…. A Global [...]
Is It Just Me?
“Friendship is born that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” Source unknown. The honest truth is that sometimes being the expatriate partner can be a bit of a lonely old business. Whilst generally we all recognise the positive opportunities and learning that can come from [...]
Expat Friendships: “Don’t Cry Because It’s Over, Smile Because it Happened!” Dr Seuss.
As I walked around our house the day after our “leaving celebration”, a happy fun filled event at which we and our children said goodbye to all our friends, I suddenly found tears pouring down my face. Infact as I write this now tears are pricking my eyes as I remember the sadness I felt on [...]
Overwhelmed By Going Home, When Expatriation Becomes Repatriation..
I am sure we can all relate to times in our lives when we have felt overloaded. We know we have to act fast but we have so many competing claims on our time, all seeming equally important that we don’t know where to turn. Instead we simply freeze. Two years ago my family and I moved [...]
Introducing the Art Of Moving Home: Repatriation.
In November 2011 I embarked on an exciting new project with Leah Stickley aka The Onion Peeler. The objective of the project: To record from a coaching perspective Leah’s experience of “repatriating” to the UK after over twenty years of living abroad, first living in France and then latterly China, where she lived for thirteen years, eleven of which were [...]
Christmas Is Coming – How Does Expat Living Influence Your Holiday Period?
This year I have received so many thanksgiving messages that I almost feel it is my celebration as well! I do like the sentiment though: gratitude, appreciating and enjoying the company of those you love. I particularly like the non-commercial nature of the celebration, Christmas without the gifts…… Bah Humbug! But now having mentioned the [...]
How Do You Feel When An Expat Opportunity Knocks?
Excitement at the thought of new beginnings, sadness at the thought of those who will be left behind, concern for children and their reaction to change, fascination at the prospect of discovering a new country and culture. These are just some of the reactions people generally state when the opportunity of relocating abroad arises. For many [...]
Turning Points – Turning Challenge to Success.
Turning Points is the brain child of Kate Cobb, a British expatriate currently living in France. In 2005 Kate was diagnosed with a rare muscle condition that would gradually affect her mobility and lead to increasing disability. At the moment when the full force of the diagnosis hit her Kate said she realised she had [...]
It’s not the success or failure, but what you learn that really counts.
The upside of my half marathon experience was that I did it! I ran the race and completed it. I should be happy, and I am but also I have this nagging thought, “I should have run it faster”. So it looks like I’m going to be doing it all again – one day. I [...]
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