Coaching for Expatriates

Are you living abroad and finding it challenging because you:

• don’t quite know how or where you fit in
• are feeling lonely
• are struggling to adapt to a new physical and social world
• are feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by your new cultural environment and getting your head around how things work and ‘get done’
• are juggling setting up a home, supporting your spouse and/or fulfilling your responsibilities as a parent, all at once and in an unfamiliar world
• are unclear how to meet your needs for belonging, connection, purpose and joy
• feel guilty for being disappointed or for not knowing how to make the most of your time overseas
• feel disconnected from friends and family 'back home' who don't understand how tough living abroad can be
• miss the support network you have left behind before your current move?​

 “I’m homesick all the time,” she said, still not looking at him “I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon – just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.”
— Sarah Addison Allen

How do you make a life of meaning and purpose for yourself in new and foreign lands, be it for one year or ten?

For most of my life I have lived as an expatriate - as a 'third culture kid', an anthropologist, wife of a diplomat and mother of three 'third culture kids'. I have first hand experience of similar challenges to those you face.

As a health and wellness coach I also have the professional training, skills and experience to guide, support and empower you so that you can:

• deal with feelings of frustration, resentment and loneliness

• find purpose and meaning for yourself 
• make the most of the unique opportunities and experiences that expatriate living can offer

• prioritise self-care practices so that you have the energy, resilience and mindset to fulfil your responsibilities and meet your own needs and pursue your own interests 
• thrive instead of just 'survive' expatriate life
• flourish emotionally, mentally and physically 
• live a fulfilling and balanced life no matter where in the world you end up 

I am particularly attuned to working with women who accompany their working partners to live abroad.
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Please get in touch for a no-strings-attached exploratory session to see if working with me would be a good fit. I am happy to connect via Skype, FaceTime, WhatsApps or other internet conferencing providers.

”The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.” — Adam Gopnik

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