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Caught between 2 worlds | CBC News
Tyisha Murphy's background includes Indian, Irish and English. She often gets asked, "what are you, exactly?" She writes about being caught between ...
The Means That Make Us Strangers
"Christine Kindberg's fiction explores the complexity of identity, love, and faith with extraordinary intimacy and skill. Her bracing prose draws y ...
The trouble with third culture kids | Children's Mental Health Network
~ Morning Zen Guest Blog Post – Nina Sichel ~ You may not notice her. At first glance, she may appear perfectly comfortable — these kids are ...
Five Reasons I’ve Failed to Grow Through Seasons of Transition
Once when I was introducing a workshop for global workers on the topic of transitions, I conducted an experiment. I asked the attendees to introduc ...
The Waiting Place
As part of my former job, I used to help run the kids’ program for pre-field training for staff heading overseas. It was a fairly intense, five-wee ...
9 questions to consider before leaving your field
A timing question. We all leave the field eventually. So when is the right time? When I was a field director in Congo I would say, I sure hope the ...
Hiding in the Hallway: Anchoring Yourself as an MK
Written specifically to missionary teens, Hiding in the Hallways offers MKs a biblical context for their faith in light of their unique circumstanc ...
Hidden in My Heart: A Tck's Journey Through Cultural Transition
When Taylor Murray arrived in Japan, she felt like she was on an adventure-an adventure that God had called her family to take. The unique food, th ...
Good Grief: Helping TCKs Navigate Their Unresolved Grief
I grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I only moved there when I was ten but had lived a few places before then. So when we got there and stayed ...
Transitionitis: Also known as Happy and Sad Syndrome (HASS)
Written in jest (but only partly)... ABOUT Transitionitis/HASS is a very common ailment affecting hundreds of travellers each year. It is caused ...
10 Ways Expats and TCKs Can Relate to Buddy the Elf
I don’t know about you, but I find it very hard to believe that Elf has been around since 2003. It quickly became one of the Christmas movie clas ...