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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What a phenomenal response we’ve had to our Career Choice and the Accompanying Partner survey! So far, almost 200 accompanying partners have responded to the survey – an amazing start and almost half way to our goal of 400 responses. Of course Louise and I have had amazing support from some influential people which has [...]
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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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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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Its a new year and I haven’t written for a while so what better way to start the year than to get back on my soapbox! I sparked some discussion way back in March with my article about the (in my opinion) heinous term “trailing spouse” and the fire has been smouldering a away on [...]
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Browsing the discussion boards at the ExpatWeb group on LinkedIn, I came across a thread started by cross cultural coach, Margarita Gokun Silver which posed the question “Your identity in expatriation: will it stay or will it go?” My answer? A resounding “Neither!” I’ve been an expat for a long time and have a very [...]
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