A yearly visit to the gynaecologist entailed a lecture about not waiting if I wanted to have children because of my age. I left in tears with loads of thoughts and concerns swimming in my head. On top of all the usual considerations about having children, were my expat concerns: my husband travelled all the […]

I think that all of us are somewhat unsatisfied with our lives, and that’s okay. We want more. We push ourselves. We strive to be a better version of ourselves. I think part of the reason we do this is to feel better, to avoid what we perceive as negative. But life is always going

Once again my husband’s company made a decision to disband his division, so another move would be in store. This time, I was ready to step up and get my dream job. I registered for a job fair, received several plum offers, and ended with exactly the job I wanted in a country where my

Lockdown procedures have loosened up where I am living and we are all trying to get used to the new health and safety procedures that seem to be changing regularly.  My daughter is complaining about having to wear a face mask all day at school. Lunch has become her favorite escape as one can’t be

The first technique for living the life you have always wanted no matter where you are living is learning to separate FACT from story. A FACT is something that is known or proven to be true. For this technique we also need to add that a FACT is something that everyone would agree on. The

After building a close friendship over two years with a great woman that inspired me, I had to say goodbye. She got an amazing job offer in the U.S., a land she had never even visited, and she and her husband were off. I was left behind. I was left to find new friends and

Living in a new city overseas, I found myself often feeling anxious and nervous about going to new places and trying new things. I felt a lot of self-doubt and worried that I wouldn’t be able to handle things.  Something that really helped me get over these feelings of insecurity, was planning a roadtrip with

One of my favorite things about living abroad are the different kinds of people you meet and befriend. When you are living overseas and trying to make new friends, you don’t have a common past to fall back on, or sometimes much in common except your new home. You’ll find yourself HANGING out with people

FOMO is an anxious feeling you get when you feel other people might be having a good time without you. As an expat we have FOMO for everything that we know we are missing back home, like my family Thanksgiving get-together. I think another form of FOMO expats develop is based more on JEALOUSLY than

After almost a year of living overseas in Berlin, my husband told me that his company was merging and that he was being relocated to Frankfurt. I can’t say that I had built a fantastic life in Berlin in that year that I was sad to leave. I had spent a year learning German, and

Many of us expats are what can be called a trailing spouse. A trailing spouse is a person who follows his or her life partner to another city or country because of a work assignment. Finding yourself in this situation can take a toll on your RELATIONSHIP. Trailing spouses often feel lonely without their family

The biggest struggle in my new life as an expat was that for the first time, I did not have a job. There was little structure to my days and no way for me to meet people. On top of that, I had just gotten married, and moved overseas to a country where I didn’t