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  • Blog,  Expat Life

    ‘The sun will come out… tomorrow’ – patience & expat life

    July 9, 2013 /

    Sometimes all that’s required for things to work out is patience. When we came sight-unseen to Canada our quality of life took a nosedive while we got ourselves established...

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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Facing Difficulties

    August 22, 2012
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    Back-To-School With A Snowbird Fly-Past

    September 2, 2013

    “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

    February 10, 2017
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Mental Health

    Review of ‘An Inconvenient Posting – an expat wife’s memoir of lost identity’

    May 22, 2013 /

    Describing an encounter with depression during her family’s expatriation to Houston, USA, Laura J Stephens' memoir will strike a chord with displaced souls everywhere.

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    Battling BPD

    April 8, 2013
    Different Tree

    How BPD made me a better expat

    January 29, 2013
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    Surviving a Canadian Winter

    September 9, 2011
  • Bridging Cultures,  Expat Life,  Interracial marriage

    How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity

    March 29, 2013 /
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    It’s a big confusing world out there and belonging means someone’s got your back. But what happens when you try to join a group that’s not your own?

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    4 Tips For Raising Biracial Children

    July 25, 2013
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    A Matter of Faith

    February 13, 2012
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    Make Me A Muslim

    February 12, 2013
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Expat Life,  Mental Health

    How BPD made me a better expat

    January 29, 2013 /
    Different Tree

    Not nearly enough is written about Borderline Personality Disorder, and often what little there is, however insightful, leaves you with a foreboding sense of the enormous obstacles preventing us from functioning on a similar level to those free of this frustrating and debilitating condition...

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    Fed up of the Fords

    December 1, 2011
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    Choking on the memory

    September 9, 2012
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    “It’s chocolate Jim, but not as we know it…”

    November 19, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Torn

    May 6, 2012 /
    Pulled apart by horses

    When you move to a new country the heady exhilaration of discovery is addictive. Your senses are sharper, you're fully alive - you're a nomadic ninja, travelling the world, living on your wits!

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    A-Z of Canada: E is for Emerge

    June 17, 2013
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    A penguin love story with a twist

    November 6, 2011
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    For Whom The Bell Tolls (or A Funny Thing Happened In Paris)

    September 30, 2013
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Adjustment & Culture Shock

    October 12, 2011 /

    When I agreed to become a "Trailing Spouse", "Expat Wife" etc. I let my natural optimism carry me. I looked forward to change, new opportunities, seeing more of the world. I was excited.Oh yes! You could say I am the Queen of Naive Thinking!

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    The Good ‘Ole Hockey Game

    January 21, 2013
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    How I managed to stop self-injuring and get on with my life

    March 1, 2012

    Dog Days Of Summer

    September 9, 2011
  • Blog,  Expat Life

    Square peg in a round hole? Get used to it… you’re an expat.

    September 16, 2011 /

    What does the term "expat" mean to you? If anyone had asked me that a few years ago, it would have conjured up images of sunburnt Brits on the Costa del Sol, eating full English breakfasts, wearing Union Jack shorts and waving cans of Carlsberg at anyone within shouting distance.

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    How an overseas job can affect family life

    December 15, 2011
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    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’

    October 10, 2013
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    Living with less…

    November 13, 2011

TOPICS

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    • Interracial Marriage
    • Islam
  • MENTAL HEALTH
    • Aspergers
    • Bipolar
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  • PHOTOGRAPHY
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Top Posts & Pages

  • Childhood Is A Foreign Country
    Childhood Is A Foreign Country
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Britain vs. Canada
    Britain vs. Canada
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • AND THE WINNER IS...
    AND THE WINNER IS...
  • “D’ya like dags?”
    “D’ya like dags?”
  • Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto

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