Expat Focus – Five Things My Children Have Gained From Living Overseas

Posted on May 15, 2012 by thesmartexpat

Expat Focus asked me to write about expat children this month.  I thought that rather than make it a general article about bringing up kids in an expat environment, I’d make it very personal and talk about the ways in which I think expat life has shaped my children.  If you’d like to know more [...]

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A Question of Identity

Posted on May 1, 2012 by thesmartexpat

Its been a busy month and I’m afraid my already erratic blogging schedule has suffered.  I’ll be writing about some of the things that I’ve been working on over the coming weeks but today I’m going to talk about identity which is the topic for Friday’s Expat Partner Online Coffee. When the psychologist Erik Erikson [...]

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Life Support!

Posted on April 6, 2012 by thesmartexpat

When you become an expat and particularly an accompanying partner, the rug is pulled out from under your feet in terms of all of your familiar forms of support.  It happens at a time when you are dealing with multiple new challenges and could probably use a bit of EXTRA support.  This month at Expat [...]

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Grab Your Coffee Cup and Join Us!

Posted on March 21, 2012 by thesmartexpat

You’ll remember that back in January,  Louise Wiles and I had the opportunity to participate in a conversation among accompanying partners hosted by the Global Niche.  A common theme that we took away from the very open, honest and sometimes raw dialogue between women from diverse cultures and backgrounds was the value of a forum [...]

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International Women’s Day – A Celebration

Posted on March 9, 2012 by thesmartexpat

One of the unequivocal benefits of being an expat is having had the opportunity to cross paths with a multitude of women whom I would never otherwise have met.  Each has touched my life in her own way and all of them have enriched my life in different ways.  I am still in touch with [...]

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One Day Left to Complete the Career Choice and the Accompanying Partner Survey

Posted on February 28, 2012 by thesmartexpat

Thanks for your response to the Career Choice and the Accompanying Partner survey.   So far a phenomenal 300+ people have shared their experiences overseas but Louise and I want to be sure that everyone who has an experience to share has the opportunity to complete the survey.  If you haven’t already done so, please [...]

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The Space Between – Blogging about Acceptance on Expat Focus

Posted on February 6, 2012 by thesmartexpat

Photo: istockphoto.com My latest blog post over at Expat Focus is the first of two which addresses transitioning to life as an accompanying partner and talks about acceptance as the first step in the transition.  You can find the article here.

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Austria for 10 months!

Posted on January 26, 2012 by thesmartexpat

Breast Cancer Awareness campaigns on Facebook asking women to make cryptic comments about bra colours and where you put your handbag have created hype and hyperbole in the press and the blogosphere in previous years.  However,  2012′s campaign has caused minor havoc to erupt in the expat community.  This year, women are asked to post  ”I’m [...]

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Getting Creative with the Global Niche

Posted on January 17, 2012 by thesmartexpat

Can’t tell you how excited I am that I’ve been invited, along with Louise Wiles (my co-conspiritor on the Career and the Accompanying Partner Survey) to participate in an online discussion with Tara Agacayak and Anastasia Ashman, initiators of the Global Niche. Louise and I contacted Tara and Anastasia to ask for their help in [...]

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Goal Setting

Posted on January 10, 2012 by thesmartexpat

Happy New Year! I’ve been in Australia over the holidays visiting family and friends and enjoying some of the sunshine and warmth that I missed during the last Northern European summer. While I was away, I wrote my second article for Expat Focus on Goal Setting. If you haven’t thought about what you want to [...]

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