188 - TCKs and the burden to lead
An encounter with a harpist, and the joy of being in the audience. In this episode I reflect on the narrative so many Third Culture Kids encounter around their duty to lead.And for those interested - ...
19 Kesä 18min
187 - Getting it right, or getting it good?
Here I explore that tension I see myself and so many other TCKs carry in our stories - a sense of needing to figure out how to do life 'right'. I connect this to the necessity in childhood for many of...
12 Kesä 30min
186 - Who Didn't You Get to Be?
It's common for Third Culture Kids to ask themselves, 'Who am I?' With Life Story Therapies we look to our stories to inform the answer to this - but these same stories can also help us but showing us...
5 Kesä 24min
185 - First the Grief, then the Change
Typically, Third Culture Kids carry grief triggered by the changes experienced in their early years. Here, I'm exploring how changes we may be working to choose in later life may actually need us to d...
29 Touko 25min
184 - Let Them Love You
This episode finds me struggling to articulate a sensation I've both felt personally and witnessed in my work with TCKs - a feeling that it's hard to truly trust the love of others as being about us. ...
22 Touko 26min
183 - A Birthday Safe and Well
I'm getting reflective this week in anticipation of my birthday - and pondering especially what it means to acknowledge the degree to which I feel safe and well in this, my 41st year. As I reflect on ...
15 Touko 32min
182 - Third Culture Kids and Decision Paralysis
Third Culture Kids and decisions - it's a topic that comes up a lot and here I work with the distinction between a decision deciding the kind of person we are versus knowing the kind of person we are ...
8 Touko 17min
181 - Resourcing Mobile Selves
Authenticity has become a tense word for many Third Culture Kids. It seems to invite us to choose one way of being, one part of our selves to declare as our true self, and condemns us to a kind of con...
1 Touko 20min
