Moving Furniture, Telling Your Story

Moving Furniture, Telling Your Story

by | Jun 9, 2022 | Blog

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...

Languages – those we’ve loved, and lost.

by | Mar 21, 2021 | Blog

To speak is to be. At least in my world. I’m a verbal processor and I swear I sometimes don’t know what I’m thinking until I speak it. In social terms, we often don’t feel we exist until we are heard and understood by the world around us. Babies know this first. Of...

A new year… a new TCK?

by | Jan 4, 2021 | Blog

So a new year beckons, and as the saying goes: a new year, a new you. Trouble is, there are often so many ‘me’s for us Third Culture Kids already! Which one do I feel the need to ‘improve’ or ‘reinvent’? A new year, a new TCK? It...

“Finding myself, finding my people”

by | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog

So this is post number five in the series, beginning with this one – an overview of Erikson’s ‘eight stages of man’ concept applied to the Third Culture Kid experience. And this is the big one – the one about Identity. For many of you...