The affluent Western world where a lot of us live has often presented itself as a plethora of different options. In this world, we should ideally be able to keep ‘on the move’ by changing countries, relations and jobs, endlessly reinventing ourselves. COVID-19, currently limiting our movement and confining us at home, has become the antithesis of that. We are …
As a psychologist, approaching three weeks of isolation while seeing clients online, I am thinking of behaviour adjustments in the Covid-19 crisis. Both in therapy and in my personal life, a topic that seems to be emerging revolves around attitudes towards packages entering the home from the ‘outside’. What is the right way to proceed with packages? Will the right …
Ever since Covid-19 took over our collective lives and attention, there seems to have been an explosion of mental health articles on the internet, advocating for the public use of knowledge and resources used in psychotherapy. Yet how are therapy clients living through all of this and what does it mean for therapists and society as a whole? Two weeks …
From the World Health Organization to the Associations of Psychologists around the globe, we have now received a set of recommendations for times of social distancing and social isolation. We know that we will benefit from controlling the intake of daily news around Covid-19, while seeking reliable sources only; that exercise and meditation are, as always, highly beneficial; that keeping …
There is no single way of living a successful expat life. As in everything else in life, success depends on your definition of it, or the definitions you were exposed to when growing up. Perhaps part of the adventure of being an expat is often to challenge those definitions, to make sure that you are not a fully finished ‘individual’ …
