The Grounded Expat
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You don’t have to know what’s wrong.

You just have to know what’s feeling hard.

Find the one that sounds most like you right now. If two of them do, that’s normal. Pick either.

Before you go

I’m thinking about moving

You keep imagining it. You’re also quietly working out what it might cost you, and who you’d be leaving behind.

Before you go

I’m leaving soon

The goodbyes, the guilt, and the strange grief of the last few weeks. The part everyone rushes past.

Arriving

I just got here

Everything is new, including the things that shouldn’t be. Buying bread is a project. So are you.

The hard middle

The excitement’s worn off

The shine is gone, and you’re quietly wondering whether you made a mistake.

The hard middle

I miss home

You don’t necessarily want to go back. You miss the people, the ease, and the version of yourself who lived there.

The hard middle

I’m lonely

You’re meeting people. You just haven’t found your people. You’re not cursed, it’s genuinely hard.

The hard middle

I’m exhausted

Not tired from one bad week. The deep, cumulative exhaustion of adapting all day, every day, in a place that doesn’t run on your defaults.

Becoming

I don’t feel like myself

You used to know what you were good at. Now half the day goes on things that used to be automatic, and you’re not sure who the new version is yet.

Relationships

I moved for someone else

Their job, their dream, your whole life. The grief and the invisible work of it rarely get named out loud.

Life on the move

I’m living on the move

You can go anywhere. Some days that’s freedom and some days you’ve lost the thread of what it’s all for.

Going home

I’m going home

Going back isn’t going back. You’re not the person who left, and home didn’t stay still either.

Not sure what you need

Then don’t start by choosing.

Write down what’s actually going on, in whatever shape it comes out. It doesn’t have to be clear or make sense yet. You’ll get one question back to take a little deeper.

No diagnosis. No advice. No fixing.

Reflect with me →

If you’d rather not do this on your own.

With others

The Circle

A small, steady place for people living abroad, where the in-between is understood and you don’t have to explain why something you chose can still be hard.

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Work with me

One to one coaching, by video, wherever you are. Start with a free fifteen minutes and no obligation to continue.

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Four guided journals. Yours to keep, private to your device.