Control and Third Culture Kids

Control and Third Culture Kids

“I feel like a control-freak!” OR “It just sort of fell into my lap…” I’ve heard both from the Third Culture Kids I work with, and from myself too! I’ve noticed over the years that TCKs can have a complicated relationship with...
Third Culture Kids and Character Development

Third Culture Kids and Character Development

So, I work with story. Your story, my story… all stories have a main character. This character typically faces challenges and experiences life-altering circumstances. And as a result, our hero goes through some kind of character development – they develop...
Third Culture Kids & Stability

Third Culture Kids & Stability

Stability. What does that word invite in you? What do you see in your mind’s eye? It’s a word I’ve had a mixed relationship with all my life. I would crave it, try and find systems or plans that would get me it, and then as soon as I had it in hand, there would rise...
The light returns… does anything else?

The light returns… does anything else?

Today the light returned. I joined the livestream from Stonehenge as people from all over the world joined in person and online to watch the sun rise between those ancient stones. For all our cumulative scientific knowledge that gives us assurance that the sun will...
Third Culture Kids and Repatriating Well

Third Culture Kids and Repatriating Well

A client shared with me recently how they had been looking for accounts of Third Culture Kids repatriating, and how little they had found to very little to inform them. This challenged me in more ways than one – first to consider why the narrative of TCK repatriation...