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This blog and my website - www.successabroadcoaching.com is designed to support people as they make moves abroad and cope with the challenges such relocations present. Coaching products and services, discussion, support and exchange of experiences.
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How Has Expat Living Impacted On Your Sense of Who You Are'
From Success Abroad, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
When we relocate abroad:
?Our self-identity is shaken up and we may have to renegotiate or redefine that identity by integrating our new experiences and reactions into our ?old self'?
Elisabeth Marx, Breaking Through Culture Shock.
When I think back to my ?old self' the one who lived in the UK and never expected to live abroad, I see someone who was ?different but also the same' from the ?me' of today. My family and friends of old still recognize me as ?their Louise' and yet in some ways I feel...
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Careers Abroad When You are a +1?.A Global Niche Chat
From Success Abroad, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
In January Tara Agacayak and Anastasia Ashman from Gobal Niche.net invited my colleague Evelyn Simpson (The Smart Expat) and I to join them in their Linqto room (An online communication portal) to discuss the experience of accompanying partners in relation to their career. The discussion was called: Careers abroad when you're a +1?. A Global Niche Chat.
We had a brilliantly lively conversation with people joining us from all over the world.
The sense of support and encouragement from and...
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Is It Just Me'
From Success Abroad, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
?Friendship is born that moment when one person says to another: What! You too' I thought I was the only one.?
Source unknown.
The honest truth is that sometimes being the expatriate partner can be a bit of a lonely old business. Whilst generally we?all recognise the positive opportunities and learning that can come from our time abroad it can also be an isolating experience at times.
Expat friends come and go, we can be wealthy in wonderful friendships one year and suddenly bereft the...
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Expat Friendships: ?Don't Cry Because It's Over, Smile Because it Happened!? Dr Seuss.
From Success Abroad, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
As I walked around our house the day after our ?leaving celebration', a happy fun filled event at which we and our children said goodbye to all our friends, I suddenly found tears pouring down my face. Infact as I write this now tears are pricking?my eyes as I remember the sadness I felt on that day in August 2010.
We had made a proactive decision to relocate, not a big move a simple hop, from Madeira Island to Lisbon Portugal, a comfortable and familiar move. So the location wasn't the...
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Overwhelmed By Going Home, When Expatriation Becomes Repatriation..
From Success Abroad, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I am sure we can all relate to times in our lives when we have felt overloaded. We know we have to act fast but we have so many competing claims on our time, all seeming equally important that we don't know where to turn. Instead we simply freeze.
Two years ago?my family and I?moved home twice in a period of three months, settled children into new schools and?set up all the administration/bureaucratic aspects of life in our new location, the normal expat/relocation tasks. Once all of these...
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Introducing the Art Of Moving Home: Repatriation.
From Success Abroad, 4 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
In November 2011 I embarked on an exciting new project with Leah Stickley aka?The Onion Peeler.?The objective?of the project:?To?record from a coaching perspective Leah's experience of ?repatriating' to the UK after over twenty years of living abroad, first living in France and then latterly China, where she lived for thirteen years, eleven of which were in Shanghai.
The repatriation experience in Leah’s words:
Repatriation matters. Reverse culture shock is a shock because we don’t...
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Christmas Is Coming ? How Does Expat Living Influence Your Holiday Period'
From Success Abroad, 5 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
This year I have received so many thanksgiving messages that I almost feel it is my celebration as well! I do like the sentiment though: gratitude, appreciating and enjoying the company of those you love. I particularly like the non-commercial nature of the celebration, Christmas without the gifts?? Bah Humbug!
But now having mentioned the word – that thought moves me swiftly on to the subject of ?THE Holiday Period'? yes it's looming, how can I miss it given the carols and nativity...
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How Do You Feel When An Expat Opportunity Knocks'
From Success Abroad, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Excitement at the thought of new beginnings, sadness at the thought of those who will be left behind, concern for children and their reaction to change,?fascination at the prospect of discovering a new country and culture. These are just some of the reactions people generally state when the opportunity of relocating abroad arises.
For many partners there is also the open ended and often unanswered question:
What about me and my career'
My reactions to our relocation opportunities over the years...
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Turning Points ? Turning Challenge to Success.
From Success Abroad, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Turning Points is the brain child of Kate Cobb,? a British expatriate currently living in France.
In 2005 Kate was diagnosed with a rare muscle condition that would gradually affect her mobility and lead to increasing disability.
At the moment when the full force of the diagnosis hit her Kate said she realised she had a choice. She could either give up and accept the diagnosis and the extreme restrictions she was told it would put on her life. Or she could:
“Start an upward spiral of...
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It's not the success or failure, but what you learn that really counts.
From Success Abroad, 7 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The upside of my half marathon experience was that I did it! I ran the race and completed it. I should be happy, and I am but also I have this nagging thought, ?I should have run it faster'.
So it looks like I'm going to be doing it all again ? one day. I will take the lessons from this experience and know that they will make my next training and preparation better and my performance stronger and faster.
SO what did I learn'
Here I share my lessons. I hope that they will help you work towards...
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