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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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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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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Photo: istockphoto.com My own career took me from London to New York on my first expat assignment in 1989. Fast forward nine years and my soon-to-be husband and I managed (after a 15 month separation and a with the help of a sympathetic boss) to move to Hong Kong and keep both of our careers [...]
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In March, I wrote about moving overseas and what makes those of us who do so step so far out of our comfort zones. As many of you who have moved overseas this summer have probably discovered, the decision to move to a new country is just the first of many times in your expat life [...]
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Mea Culpa!! I have committed the cardinal sin of blogging and have not posted content in quite some time. So I have to thank Tara Sophia Mohr whose Girl Effect Blogging Campaign has blown away my summer inertia and inspired me to start writing again. Having started, I am committing to a more regular schedule (once [...]
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I’m excited to tell you about a new project on which I’ve been collaborating with expat career coach, Jennifer Bradley. Starting on July 15th, she and I will be hosting a series of four teleseminars for expats and accompnaying spouses. Each seminar will cover an aspect of the experience of adjusting to a new life [...]
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Stranded in Scotland for an extra day as a result of the volcanic ash being spewed into European airspace by Eyjafjallajoekull (whose pronounciation may never be mastered outside of Iceland), we were unable to pick our daughter up at the end of her first week-long school trip. Although she handled the situation well, she was clearly [...]
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