Third Culture Kids and the Winter Blues

Third Culture Kids and the Winter Blues

by | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog

How are you doing? I mean, really? Something I’m hearing a fair bit of right now is how people are suffering from the ‘winter blues’. This seems to be a fairly common phenomenon in the northern hemisphere, and not a particularly Third Culture...
Self Compassion and the Third Culture Kid

Self Compassion and the Third Culture Kid

by | May 5, 2021 | Blog

I marvel at how often self compassion (or the lack of it!) comes up in my work with Third Culture Kids. I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, my own therapists point it out in me too. But it does seem a strange kind of paradox that TCKs, who we all talk about as...

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 thank you… from me to you.

by | Dec 22, 2020 | Blog

It’s not uncommon for a therapist to be on the receiving end of gratitude expressed by their clients. I think this time of year can invite a reflective mood and, perhaps especially in the context of this year, we are many of us noticing just how far we’ve...

Are books sacred to you?

by | Sep 7, 2020 | Blog

Books are sacred to me because stories are sacred to me, as are the people who tell them. Whether these stories are born of imagination or experiences, they are all somehow true. And truth is sacred. Books are sacred in the way they present a universal story in a...