


Being Multilingual makes your Expat Life Wonderful – Multilingual Benefits
How many languages do you speak? As an Expat the chances are you’re probably learning an additional language to your native one. Multilingual benefits are many and can make your life abroad wonderful! I’m originally from Chile so for me, when I became an...
How Expats Can Manage Conflicts Better
Experiencing conflicts in family and friends as an expat? Moving abroad is one of the biggest steps you will ever take in your life. Building a life abroad in a new country is equal parts exhilarating and scary. Exhilarating because you’re going on an adventure and...
Gaslighting and its Effects on Expat Couples
When someone is gaslighting in relationships, they say or do things to make others feel like the problem is their fault. Gaslighting is a common form of emotional abuse that can happen in any relationship, but it’s especially tough when the message must work...
What Expats Say When They Don’t Communicate
Humans communicate from the moment they perceive each other. It is impossible not to, even if no words are verbally spoken or exchanged. Interested to know what expats say even not saying anything? Keep reading. According to Paul Watzlawick, an Austrian psychologist...
4 Must-Do’s to Navigate your Multilingual Relationship
Misunderstandings are usual in all kinds of relationships: with your partner, family, friends and colleagues. However, when this is a multilingual relationship and you have to communicate in a language that is not your mother tongue, the challenges are even more...
Working from Home | 7 Ways to Prevent Burn-Out
While working from home (a.k.a. remote working) can be positive and productive, it has its downsides too. These last months many of us were “forced” to start working from home. That can bring many positive sides, but it can also complicate our daily life, routines,...
Languages of Love in an Expat Relationship
Being in a expat relationship is an adventure sometimes not easy to navigate. Be aware of the cultural and idiomatic differences, but also of the language in which your better half expresses his/her love, and you’ll enjoy a beautiful and profound partnership, wherever...
Hack your Expat Expectations
Expat expectations. From within ourselves and from others. From people we love and people we don’t really know. The way we are supposed to be. Meeting standards. Huge pressure. As human beings, we function naturally with expectations. We wait and hope for...