This week we’re welcoming Rachel to Rocky Re-entry as she shares her re-entry story… It took six months for the honeymoon to be over. By that point, I’d figured out where to grocery...
Category - Friendship
Friendship is a minefield of confusion in the reentry journey. Help on making new friends and trying to make sense of the old ones…
Thoughts on Being a Single Adult in December
One for my single friends….or really for anyone who has ever felt like their world is telling them who they are is not quite...
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Friendship in the midst of transition.
I remember when I was knee deep in reentry; still in the place where I kept forgetting to flush the toilet paper and was...
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10 Reflections on Ten Years of Reentry
It’s been 10 years! Ten years since I made the unexpected move back to the US after working internationally. This morning I sat with my journal and my advent candles lit thinking...
Themes from a Mini Re-entry
The last two weeks I’ve been in the midst of a mini re-entry after spending a couple weeks in South America traveling/volunteering. I’m noticing them again, those themes from reverse...
Losing our Innocence on the Field
Recently I attended a gathering where a couple was sharing about their future move to Asia. They were excited, passionate, hopeful, and probably a bit nervous. Preparing to move...
For the Middle Years of Re-entry
The other day I ran into a friend who is three years into re-entry after one year living overseas. And she said what I’ve heard many times before… “It’s still hard!” “I thought...
For Friends & Family of those Moving Back...
In the midst of moving back to my “home” country, I wasn’t at a place to articulate to my friends and family what was going on inside me or what I needed {probably because I didn’t...
Losing my Identity on my Layover: Who am I, and where...
Living overseas gives us an opportunity to build a pretty cool identity! Maybe we got to… ….travel to exotic places {even if it didn’t feel exotic to you}. …work on solving real...
Unpacking the Suitcase of Shame
We end up back in our “home” countries for different reasons… …maybe our time or term has ended. …maybe we’re longing for freedom from our life overseas. …maybe this was the...
Advent: Expectations & Reentry
Advent. Until last year, that word for me brought childhood memories of trying to make the candles stand up in the fake wreath on our kitchen table. Then someone introduced me to the...