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...
Overcoming Culture Shock in Expat Life
Culture shock is a natural psychological response to the stress of adapting to a new culture. It’s that feeling of being out of place, confused, and overwhelmed when one arrives in a new environment. It can occur when a person travels or moves to a foreign...
Expats and Their Concept of Home
Where is home? What is home? How do you define it? These are all questions that many of us ask at some point in our lives. Are you an expat finding home? Where is home for you? For many people, their concept of home is tied to a specific place – their...
Overcoming Burnout in High-Achieving Expats
From all the expectations and demands of moving to a foreign country, it’s hard to be an expat who is not high achieving so burnout in high-achieving expats is commonplace. After all, most people don’t say yes to an opportunity like this, only to live an...
Expat Uprooting: Belonging Within Yourself
Moving abroad is a giant leap to take in life with many factors to consider. After all, when you leave your home, everything that’s familiar to you changes. A completely new environment means a new living space, friends, job, hobbies, means of transportation...
How Counseling with an Expat Psychologist will Support You
At the time you moved abroad, you may have been fulfilling your biggest dream. You may have planned everything you possibly could have to prepare for this significant transition. Still, you came to find that no amount of planning could have ever prepared you for how...
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...
5 ways to Overcome Impostor Syndrome in Expat Life
Do you recognize some of these situations? – You have something to say in meetings and gatherings, but you keep it to yourself because you think it is not valuable enough. – You assume that others in a specific context are more intelligent and prepared...
5 ideas to Protect our Mental Health as Expat Entrepreneurs
The freedom, having control of your time and your decisions. Taking care of our mental health as expat entrepreneurs is pivotal to succeed. Being a business owner is the dream of many expats. It’s filled with beautiful highlights, but also with challenges and...
How the Big Five Personality Traits Impact Expat Life
We are all bound to have days where we wish we could drop the labels and be who we are, without our traits or characteristics having to mean something more than what they are or set us apart from other people. At the same time, we know that there is value in...
6 Steps for Living Abroad with Resilience
Living abroad can be an enriching and once in a lifetime experience. But with the excitement, there are defiantly some challenges that you might face. Some resources will prepare you for difficult times. One of them is resilience. I will explain what resilience is,...
Benefits of Online Sessions with a Psychologist
Surely you have heard or read about the benefits of sessions online before but how exactly does it work? Just how exactly are these sessions held? My online sessions have with the same structure as the traditional in-office format. The only difference is that it’s...
Expat for Love? Stop feeling Dependent Abroad!
We are used to doing what we want without questioning much, without overthinking about money, spontaneous, free. This usually changes when we move to another country, probably with a language we don’t master, without a support network, we feel insecure and lost....
Expat Goodbyes: Friends all over the World
Expat goodbyes are sad and painful, but they are also an opportunity to have friends around the globe and meet them again and again. Here you’ll find tips to face goodbyes smoothly and cherish the lovely times you spent with the people you love! Being an Expat...Subscribe to my YouTube Channel
