The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist
Rachel is, amongst many other things, a Third Culture Kid therapist specialising in Life Story Interview and Accompaniment, an approach she developed from her Sociological doctorial research into TCK identity, belonging and relationship to place. This podcast is a place she comes to contribute her ponderings on personal growth, working with pain, and the transformative change that comes from a better understanding of our own stories. For more information about Rachel’s therapeutic work, please visit: www.explorelifestory.com or drop her a line at [email protected]
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- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 161
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
140 - The Narrative Voice
Who is the narrator of your story? And is the voice a critical or demanding one? Or is it on the hero's side? In this episode I explore the impact and power of our narrative voices, and explore what …
00:19:12 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
139 - Frivolous Identities
I loved this phrase I heard last week, "frivolous identity" - and wanted to explore it here with you. I've often pondered the way we manage an internal hierarchy of our many identities and this phras…
00:15:56 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
138 - Making and Creating
How many Third Culture Kids are busy deconstructing our stories? Or working to build identities from what often feel like disparate fragments? In this episode I'm pondering my own relationship with m…
00:13:28 |
Fri 29 Nov 2024
137 - Cultural Icebergs and Meaning-making
Some feedback from last episode on purpose and TCKs really brought home to me another challenge faced by many TCKs around purpose - which this episode attempts to do justice to. How do we navigate ou…
00:17:34 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
136 - TCKs and Purpose-Seeking
I've been avoiding this episode - partly because I'm feeling how incredibly important it is. How does the experience of being a TCK interact with our purpose-seeking? And what do we do about it?
Hos…
00:23:25 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
135 - Look how far you've come...
Taking pause in this episode, a moment to notice, acknowledge and celebrate how far we've come!
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00:15:59 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
134 - TCKs and Time
Time! How does the Third Culture Kid experience impact our sense of time? It's often said TCKs are somewhat allergic to the 10 year plan - but why? And what about the impact on how we do relationship…
00:18:34 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
133 - Invisible Contracts
How many of us learnt that we could 'make ourselves safe' by offering certain behaviours - compliance, being a good listener, being 'interesting'? In this episode I'm exploring what we may have learn…
00:27:08 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
132 - Attachment Figures... and a poem
What about the characters in our story that we struggle to find a place for? The people whose languages we've maybe lost but who cared for us as children, worked in our homes or with our parents; the…
00:25:08 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
131 - The Money Narrative
Money! What's it got to do with the Third Culture Experience? Between complex juxtapositions between wealth experiences between countries, modelled standards and shapes of living, expectations around…
00:25:57 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
130 - Feasible Alternate Realities
In this meandering episode, I'm observing how the practice of imagining feasible alternate realities can benefit us. Sometimes called re-scripting, working with feasible alternative realities is abou…
00:22:56 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
129 - Macro and Micro Identities
"Who am I?" is a question that Third Culture Kids agonise over, and I've observed some patterns here - that we often focus on the 'big identities', the ones that give meaning and purpose on a global …
00:20:49 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
128 - If I make life work here...
"If I make life work here, then I'm committing to being here forever". Versions of this statement is something I hear so often in my work with Third Culture Kids, and so this episode spends some time…
00:20:00 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
127 - Guilt Triggers for TCKs
Guilt - that horrible twisting feeling in our gut that so often shows up, unbidden and unwelcome. As awkward as it is, today I'm digging into what can trigger this in TCK stories especially, and how …
00:25:06 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
126 - Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Value
Are you confused by how you think about your own worth? Maybe one part of you feel like you have things to offer, that you have value to add, but another feels like you can't quite believe the idea y…
00:18:55 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
125 - The Courtroom of Feelings
I'm noticing how many of us TCKs are struggling to set boundaries without feeling the need to build a case of moral justification - our own feelings and needs don't seem to be 'enough' to allow us to…
00:16:09 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
124 - Decluttering Identity
I'm in a season of decluttering... and my TCK self is happily familiar with how soothing it feels to streamline. So many of us get anxious at the accumulation of stuff (however will it all fit in my …
00:20:26 |
Fri 09 Aug 2024
123 - Red Flags, Green Flags
"I saw the signs... and I went there anyway!" I hear this so often, and it's such a familiar cry of my own heart too. We are often admonished to 'watch out for the red flags' but I'm wondering how mu…
00:19:27 |
Fri 02 Aug 2024
122 - Editing the Story
In this episode, I'm pondering associations between changes and endings. In my story recently, I realised my needs had changed and the impact this was having around my book club involvement. I quickl…
00:20:25 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
121 - Acclimatised to Discomfort
What are the implications of a life lived in adaptation? One of them seems to be a familiarity with discomfort! This can impact different TCKs different ways - some of us get super sensitive to chall…
00:16:44 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
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