I blog about the issues that affect accompanying partners of expats, addressing transition to expat life, identity, career, finding fulfillment if you're unable to work, TCKs, relationships, location independence. With 6 international moves under my belt, I have personal experience of most of those issues and try to discuss them with both sensitivity and humour. Lasty, I advocate in the HR community for additional support for accompanying partners.
About me: I'm a serial expat having lived in 6 countries with my Australian husband and two children.
I work with the accompanying partners of expats helping them to successfully navigate the transitions in expat life more smoothly. I work with:
- partners of expats who have put careers on hold to move overseas. I help them discover what they need to find that fulfillment elsewhere
- partners expats who have out of the workplace for several years and have been so focused on their families that they have lost sight of their own dreams and ambitions. I help them to rediscover their goals and to move forward in achieving them.
- partners of expat who are interested in creating a location independent career or business that can be sustained through multiple moves
Besides creating my own location independent business, I speak 4 languages badly, teach and practice yoga and the rest of my time is spent trying to entice my children to do things they'd rather not!
Expat Focus ? Five Things My Children Have Gained From Living Overseas Expat Focus asked me to write about expat children this month. I thought that rather than make it a general article about bringing up kids in an expat environment, I’d make it very personal and talk about the ways in which I think expat life has shaped my children. If you’d like to kno... Tue, 15 May 2012 19:46:58
A Question of Identity 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 Onl... Tue, 01 May 2012 21:38:23
Life Support! When you become an expat and particularly an accompanying partner, the rug is pulled out from under your feet in terms of all of your familiar forms of support. It happens at a time when you are dealing with multiple new challenges and could probably use a bit of EXTRA support. This month at Expat... Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:24:18
Grab Your Coffee Cup and Join Us! You’ll remember that back in January, Louise Wiles and I had the opportunity to participate in a conversation among accompanying partners hosted by the Global Niche. A common theme that we took away from the very open, honest and sometimes raw dialogue between women from diverse cultures and... Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:01:40
International Women?s Day ? A Celebration 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 [...]... Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:25:25
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