Third Culture Kids & Safe Places – Building Home

Last week I wrote about Territory and Third Culture Kids. I wrote about how, while TCKs tend to avoid territorialism, I wonder if there isn’t something to be gained by learning how to do territory – how to build safe spaces. I suggested there are three...

A Return to Settledness

What happens when plans change? Do you sigh with relief, feeling an expanse of unexpected time and space opening up before you? Do you feel yourself tensing, a creeping awareness that you’ve just lost your projected future? How do you return to the life that...

What Story Does Your Home Tell?

So, likely as not your Christmas decorations are down by now… and you have been back at work enough of the New Year to feel both relief at the ‘routine’ of life returning and alarm that you are so exhausted by it already. The process of taking down...

Coming Home

A client recently sent me a link to Sigma and Rita Ora’s “Coming Home”. This song managed to express the inexpressible, the longing for a home that has never been known. The lyrics, “there’s a life I always knew but never had”, are...