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Multitasking Overload

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Emotional Resilience, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Food and Drink, Life Balance, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Writing, tagged children, college visits, competing demands, emotional resilience, exercise, expats, fitness, health, parents, sandwich generation, sleep, TCKs, Telegraph, university search, writing on April 20, 2012 | 16 Comments »

A few days ago I wrote of the challenges many of us face being sandwiched between generations. Just like everyone else, we expats do our best to care for, raise and guide our TCK children to adulthood(and beyond) while also staying connected to and supporting our aging parents. We just sometimes have a few wrenches thrown in due to our lack [...]

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The Upside of Humor

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, tagged adventures, funny, giggles, humor, humorous anecdotes, jokes, knock knock jokes, laughter, Malta, smile on March 1, 2012 | 22 Comments »

You know what I realized yesterday? Humor is funny. Really funny. Let me rephrase that. I’m not talking about dark humor, sick humor, mean-spirited at the expense of someone else humor. I’m referring to your all-purpose humor. The good kind that makes you smile or giggle or even laugh out loud. It feels good. Humor has [...]

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When Emotional Resilience Is Running Low

Posted in Doing What I Can to Help, Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Global Issues, tagged change, depression, emotional resilience, expat life, living abroad, loss, Mayo Clinic, sadness, transitions, WebMD, writing on September 29, 2011 | 16 Comments »

During the summer I was approached by an editor at a new site, AdaptingAbroad.com, to write two companion articles on expats and emotional resilience. The first article was to focus on what expats may risk if they find themselves lacking in emotional resilience.* I agreed, and found the experience particularly stimulating because I tend to write from [...]

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A Different Kind of Expat: The Aid Worker

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Doing What I Can to Help, Emotional Resilience, Expat Transitions & Change, Global Issues, tagged emotional resilience, Expat Backup, international aid worker, Liberia, Senegal on August 17, 2011 | 8 Comments »

One of the greatest gifts I’ve received from my writing is experiencing the connection that can be forged between two people based entirely on the words that they write. It never ceases to amaze me. Several weeks ago I received an email from Elie over at Expat Backup. Her tagline is ‘aid workers need assistance, [...]

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Julia Simens, Expat Author: Writing My Book

Posted in Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Writers on Writing, Writing, tagged Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child, expat, Julia Simens, Non-fiction, Writing a Book on July 24, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Last month, some of you Adventurers may recall that I wrote about Julia Simens’ insightful book Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child. While interviewing Julia I had asked a few questions about how she went about writing her book. As someone in the early throes of trying to write a book, I can tell you that [...]

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Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: Part V (of V!)

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Family & Friends, Life Balance, Writing, tagged awareness, communication, David Pollock & Ruth Van Reken, emotional resilience, expat life, FACTORS, family, optimism, rituals, something bigger than ourselves, transitions on July 19, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Whew. Finally. This is it. The last in the five-part series I’ve written on Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: FACTORS for the Emotionally Resilient Expat. I laid the foundation in Parts I through III by covering a range of key concepts: identity development, emotional resilience, transition phases, change model, emotional & social intelligence and [...]

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Voila: My Seven Links

Posted in Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Expats in Motion, Family & Friends, Netherlands, New to Nederland, Writing, tagged 4 Kids 20 Suitcases and a Beagle, blogging, Gidday from the UK, Isolated Internationals, Note from Lapland, Perking the Pansies, Seven Links Project, wordgeyser on July 18, 2011 | 12 Comments »

I’d been away from Twitter for a few days and was over there checking things out. Suddenly I saw a hot new tweet from my fun friend Jack over at Perking the Pansies. Jack (who retired early and lives in Bodrum, Turkey with life partner and talented new pop music composer Liam) had just tweeted and [...]

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Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: Part ii of Part IV

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Life Balance, tagged communication, connection, emotional resilience, expat, optimism, visualization on July 6, 2011 | 6 Comments »

As promised, here is part ii of Part IV in our series on Emotional Resilience in Expat Life. Along with part i last week, we’re looking at ways to engender emotional resilience to help us weather the changes and transitions we face. I can’t believe that we are getting to toward the end of this [...]

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Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: Part i of Part IV

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Life Balance, tagged 'leave well to enter well', affirmation, David Pollock & Ruth Van Reken, farewell, Julia Simens, RAFT, reconciliation, Simone Costa Eriksson & Ana Serra, think destination, Tina Quick on June 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I was going to share Part IV of the five-part series I wrote on Emotional Resilience in Expat Life, but because it ran a little long, the great folks over at I Am Expat made the good decision to break it into two parts when they published it. So today you get Part i of Part [...]

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Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: Part III

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Life Balance, tagged Daniel Goleman, depression, emotional intelligence, expat life, Julia Simens, Martin Seligman, optimism, pessimism, Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer, positive psychology, social intelligence on June 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Adventurers (aka regular followers) know that over at I Am Expat I’m in the midst of a five-part series on Emotional Resilience and Expat Life. This week was Part III: Emotional/Social Intelligence & Optimism. Throughout Parts I through III, I’ve been laying the groundwork by explaining key concepts as they relate to expats: emotional resilience, [...]

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Julia Simens: Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child

Posted in Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, tagged child psychology, Doug Ota, Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child, emotions, expats, Gordon Neufeld, Julia Simens, rituals, six stages of attachment on June 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Today I’m interviewing Julia Simens, newly published author of the outstanding book Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child: Practical Tips and Storytelling Techniques That Will Strengthen the Global Family.* I’m going to come right out and tell you that I think highly of this book. I believe Julia has written a very important work that will [...]

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Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: Part II

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Life Balance, tagged Barbara Schaetti, change, David Pollock, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, emotional resilience, expat, Robin Pascoe, Ruth Van Reken, Tina Quick, transitions on June 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been working on a five-part series on Emotional Resilience in Expat Life, and a couple days ago the second article, on Transitions & Change, was published on I Am Expat. As mentioned previously, emotional resilience is generally defined as being able to deal with and adapt to whatever challenges, setbacks and unpleasant curve balls [...]

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Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: Part I

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Identity, Life Balance, tagged Barbara Schaetti, David Pollock, emotional resilience, expats, identity, Robin Pascoe, Ruth Van Reken, Tina Quick on May 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Well here we go. As mentioned briefly in an earlier post, I’ve been busy working on a five-part series entitled ‘Emotional Resilience in Expat Life.’ The first article, ‘Identity and the Expat’ debuted today on I Am Expat. I’m sharing it with you here on my blog because I believe that emotional resilience is important to [...]

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