Henriette Johnsen
Expat spouse dependency - Camilla's experience
I love living overseas with my husband and our infant daughter. I’ve been an expat wife for one and a half year now and it’s one of the...
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En blog om det gode expatliv
af Henriette Johnsen
Velkommen til min blog. Her finder du alt fra guider om forskellige aspekter af expatlivet til personlige historier fra andre expats – og vigtigst af alt, dybdegående artikler om nogle af de psykologiske aspekter ved livet i udlandet. Bloggen er skrevet på engelsk, og nogle poster henvender sig specifikt til udlændinge i Danmark, mens andre er generelle for expats.
Jeg håber, du vil bruge disse blogposter til at berige din oplevelse som udlandsdansker.
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Henriette Johnsen
- 16. jan. 2021
- 4 min
Divorcing abroad, and what is a stuck parent?
Expat life can be testing on any marriage, and studies show that nearly 70% of all failed international assignments are due to “marital...
Henriette Johnsen
- 25. okt. 2020
- 5 min
How to care when mental illness hits
Caring for and supporting someone with a mental illness can be challenging. Many people feel they haven’t got the knowledge and as such,...
Henriette Johnsen
- 12. okt. 2020
- 3 min
Depression in expats
According to the Danish Mental Health Fond every five or six of us will suffer from depression of varying degree at some stage throughout...
Henriette Johnsen
- 25. maj 2020
- 4 min
Teenage life: friendship, freedom, efterskole, sex and alcohol
Friendships mean the world to children and teens. This is where they develop their sense of self and identity, they learn social coding...
Henriette Johnsen
- 23. maj 2020
- 3 min
Student gradutation celebrations
Many international students finishing their IGCSEs go on to IB; and you may have noticed that upon graduation, they are rewarded a white...
Henriette Johnsen
- 21. maj 2020
- 1 min
Danes can't help forming associations
For more than a hundrede years, Danes have established associations; for private as well as professional/business reasons. The Sports...
Henriette Johnsen
- 21. maj 2020
- 2 min
Teenagers' spare time jobs
Lots of teenagers want to earn their own money. Many start out babysitting for friends' or have a news paper round before moving on to...
Henriette Johnsen
- 21. maj 2020
- 2 min
Childcare facilities and schooling
In Denmark, all children from the age of 6 months, have the right to be looked after outside their home if needs be. Unlike some other...
Henriette Johnsen
- 21. maj 2020
- 2 min
Baptism and Confirmation
Denmark is a largely Christian, protestant society with approximately 60% of all children born in Denmark being baptised into the Danish...
Henriette Johnsen
- 21. maj 2020
- 4 min
Children's birthday parties
In Denmark, tradition is for school children to invite either all the girls, all the boys or the whole class around for buns and cake...
Henriette Johnsen
- 28. apr. 2020
- 4 min
Advice for expats on grief: How to cope with grief whilst living abroad during the corona crisis!
Most people have seen their life change dramatically over the past weeks or months. Some have lost their jobs. Some expats don't know if...
Henriette Johnsen
- 27. mar. 2020
- 3 min
The pandemic of loneliness - alleviate the stressors of social isolation!
In recent years, much has been written about loneliness in modern age people, in particular amongst the younger and the elder...
Henriette Johnsen
- 22. mar. 2020
- 5 min
How do you keep your relationship fit to survive the lockdown?
With the Danish government having introduced a national lockdown, many couples and families begin to feel the strain of having swopped...
Henriette Johnsen
- 14. jan. 2020
- 4 min
The importance of trust in a therapeutic relationship!
Each and every one of my clients is individual and has a unique story. If there’s a couple on my sofa, it’s the relationship between...
Henriette Johnsen
- 11. jan. 2020
- 3 min
A different view on New Year's Resolutions!
Happy New Year! Not only have we started a new year, we have embarked on a new decade. And as with all endings, new beginnings arise and...
Henriette Johnsen
- 17. sep. 2019
- 5 min
Enhance your relationship and expat life with couples therapy!
Couples expat life challenges therapy counselling
Henriette Johnsen
- 4. jul. 2019
- 5 min
Wanted: Emotional resilience for expats!
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...
Henriette Johnsen
- 28. apr. 2019
- 3 min
Building and applying strength
Identity, PERMA model, recipe for happiness, expat life, trailing spouse, identity crisis
Henriette Johnsen
- 20. jan. 2019
- 6 min
A personal account of loneliness & homesickness; from despair to hope, action and meaningfulness
An American existential psychiatrist Irwin Yalom, whom I find immensely inspiring, distinguishes between everyday loneliness and...
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