A blog about the good expat life

You are keen for your child to learn another language and experience another culture from the inside, perhaps to make a better life for...

“Where do you come from?” A perfectly normal question to ask first time you meet someone. As you get to know them and realise their...

— it’s a million little things! - Paulo Coelho. Part of most expats' experience it that it's important to make friends! And preferrably...

As a couple's therapist working with couples of all ages and genders, across many cultures, religions, and nationalities, I recognise...

Since 1999 where UNESCO founded International Mother Language Day to promote awareness of language and cultural diversity around the...

Couples meeting each other with criticism, defensiveness, contempt, stone walling as well as lack of positive emotional connection face...

With the lack of light and the ongoing short days, many people find themselves looking inwards and spend the darker time of the year being introspective. With that, or perhaps without the intended introspection, many lack energy, develop a persistent low mood, and become irritable. Some have feelings of despair and guilt, some feel worthless, and it's not uncommon to feel a change towards craving carbs, gaining weight, and sleeping more during the day. When suffering from SAD

I's taken some time, but thankfully, there's now a lot of support to be had from companies, bloggers, and books as well as from...

How can we regulate our nervous system at such testing times? Read this blogpost to understand your emotional response to the war and for...

Over the past two years, many children have been worried about covid: Will the virus come to Denmark? How might I be affected by it? Can...

Part 3 of 3 posts! The last two blog posts have defined empty nest syndrome and explored why it often hits expat parents harder. In this...

Part 2 of 3 posts! Last week's post defined empty nest syndrome; this week's post will look at why this experience often feels most...

Part 1 of 3 posts! Not that long ago you held them in your arms for the first time, you nurtured them around the clock, taught them to...

Co-dependency in an expat relationship is not necessarily the same as an unhealthy co-dependent relationship. And perhaps it shouldn't...

Story Time: hearing personal stories from other expats is a window to new worlds. Worlds of new meaning, understanding, and depth about...

Story Time: hearing personal stories from other expats is a window to new worlds. Worlds of new meaning, understanding, and depth about...

One of the biggest challenges of the expat adventure and most vital to successful outcome of the expatriation contract is the wellbeing...

Caring for and supporting someone with a mental illness can be challenging. Many people feel they haven’t got the knowledge and as such,...

According to the Danish Mental Health Fond every five or six of us will suffer from depression of varying degree at some stage throughout...

Friendships mean the world to children and teens. This is where they develop their sense of self and identity, they learn social coding...