ACT and Living Expat Life to the Fullest
An effective way for expats to learn how to live life to the fullest is through acceptance and commitment therapy principles. It’s easy for anyone to feel lost and alone in this big, sometimes scary world. For expats, a new foreign country can feel like a world...
How Living Abroad Affects Our Self-Esteem
In our home country, we knew what to expect, how to get around, and how to communicate. Until one day, we make the big decision to live in someone else’s native country, and even the simple things we thought we were masters of, like getting to the grocery store,...
Three Types of Loneliness and How They Impact Expats
Most of us can identify with what loneliness feels like. Whether it is a brief period of isolation or something more prolonged, a lack of social interaction can lead to mental health complications, such as depression and anxiety. Loneliness is especially a challenge...
7 Ideas to Make the Best of Spending Holidays Away From Family
Spending time away from family and loved ones is always a tricky situation to cope with. As expats, we navigate this as we can, often by traveling home or being visited by our friends or family for the holidays. But with our current travel climate, it could be...
Expat Friendships: Meaningful Connections Abroad
Finding Friendships as Expats is challenging. We struggle in search of people we can feel attached and connected. Sometimes we even find some “prospects” and then have second thoughts about it (or the other way around). Join me in this article and discover...
Expat Grief: Coping with Loss Living Abroad
The worst fear of all expats is losing someone you love while you are abroad. To face Expat Grief. We live with this fear; we try coping with it as well as we can. Stay on the present, mindfulness. We visit home as often as we can and seize every opportunity we have...
Podcast – Expat Loneliness
Season 3, Episode 15 of the Expat Cast Audio from The Expat Cast – All Rights reserved to The Expat Cast The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting colder, and we’re all getting lonelier. The normal November blues are made...Subscribe to my YouTube Channel
