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My mom said something on WhatsApp recently that I have not been able to stop thinking about. “I...
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One of the biggest things I wish I had realised sooner was that staying longer does not always mean...
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1️⃣ I still feel guilty about leaving my mum behind. She is getting older and often alone. I worry...
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Moving countries changed some of my friendships in ways I did not expect. Some stayed close. Some...
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I’ve hidden things, too. I’ve withheld parts of what I was going through from my family because I...
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A few things I wish I’d understood sooner about building a life in a new country 🤍 You arrive as a...
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One of the strangest things about moving countries is how quickly gratitude can become an...
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I don’t think I ever had one big moment where I realised moving countries had changed me. It...
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This reel was honestly more about the music than the clips 😂 I was feeling creative this morning...
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Making friends as an adult is hard enough. After moving countries, you often have to be much more...
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Sometimes I look at old photos and what gets me is not how much younger I looked. It’s how...
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Why can moving countries make you feel like a stranger to yourself? I think one of the hardest...
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Proud post 🥹 I was thinking about this the other day. We spend so much time talking about what gets...
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The exhaustion isn’t from translating words. It’s from translating yourself all day long. Sometimes...
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I think sometimes we get quieter after moving countries, and it is easy to assume that means we...