Moving Furniture, Telling Your Story

Moving Furniture, Telling Your Story

I’m really excited to be sitting here at my desk, writing to you. I had a ‘TCK moment’ yesterday when I realised I needed to move all the furniture around in my office to get my writing mojo back – and a few hours of mess, one dismantled desk...
New Office, Old Me

New Office, Old Me

Hello beautiful people! It’s been so long since I last wrote… 3 months I think! July disappeared to packing and planning a Minecraft themed birthday party (!) – August went to The Move, and ALL the unpacking – – and most of September has...

Adventure without Travel – a TCK necessity

Feeling antsy? Blocked from travel? How can we get adventure without travel? So something that comes up a fair bit with my work with adult Third Culture Kids is the ongoing desire for adventure. We grow up with change being our normal, and we can develop a certain...

Third Culture Kids: When the winds of change blow

The wind is blowing today. I mean really blowing. My black bin is probably halfway down the street as I write this. Ok. It’s really blowing for the UK. No hurricanes, but unusual enough for us. Or I should say, for me. I don’t associate my England with...

Windows of Tolerance

We’ve all heard of the “comfort zone”. This is the space in which we operate most, erm, comfortably. Here we feel no distress or anxiety and we function well. The notion of the “window of tolerance” extends on this concept and applies...