Third Culture Kid Racism

I’ve just spent 20 minutes looking for a blog post that engages with this question – can Third Culture Kids be racist? And it might just be my poor Googling skills but I couldn’t find one. So here I am, writing it myself. Something that reared its...

Black Lives Matter- Taking a knee

In my mind’s eye a memory floats into view, a visit I made to the King of the West African town I lived in as a young child. My mother, who was home-schooling us at the time, had taken me and my younger sister to admire the courtly palace architecture. We were looking...

Out of my Comfort Zone

Today I’m operating outside of my comfort zone. You know what that feels like. It’s pretty uncomfortable! My own toe-dabbling at the edges of my comfort is, today, in the realm of my business. I love what I do with a passion. I love working with people...

We were never supposed to journey alone…

One of the most painful cries of the heart I hear is, “Shouldn’t I be able to handle this on my own?” It is painful for the speaker because it speaks of so much shame, so much self-judgement – the double-whammy of pain, if you will. One whammy,...

Third Culture Kids & Making a Mark

Mark-making is a phrase we associate, here in the UK at least, with the experimental lines and swirls that pre-school children make before they learn to form letters. Making a mark is an important developmental phase that lays the foundations of letter formation,...

Third Culture Kids and Responses to Pandemic

So how are Third Culture Kids doing in the current pandemic? I’m hearing varied answers from TCKs during this pandemic so far. Some of us are feeling pretty calm, as though we’ve been prepped for this by previous chapters of our stories. Others of us are...

A Response to Coronavirus Anxieties

I’ve delayed writing anything about coronavirus anxieties for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I’m not a medical expert and there are enough conflicting opinions and theories out there without me adding my own unqualified ones. Secondly, the coronavirus is...