The Biggest Energy Saver for Professionals: Living in the Present Moment
What if there was a way to reclaim your energy, reduce your stress, and improve your overall sense of well-being? A way that didn’t involve overhauling your entire life but simply shifting how you approach each moment? This blog will explore why living in the present...
Quick Self-Care Tips for Busy Professionals
In today’s fast-paced world, especially for professional women, burnout is a real threat. Many of us know the typical advice when it comes to self-care: regular exercise, healthy eating, better sleep, relaxation, and maintaining social connections. The list often...
Embracing Imperfection: Striving for Perfection Is Exhausting!
In a world that constantly pushes us to be the best, do the most, and keep it all together, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking we need to be perfect. For many professional women, this pressure feels like a constant presence. Whether it’s meeting tight...
Essential to Prevent Burnout – Prioritise Yourself!
Essential to Prevent Burnout – Prioritise Yourself! You’ve likely heard it before, especially during the safety briefing on a plane: “Put your own oxygen mask on before helping others.” It makes perfect sense in that context, doesn’t it? If you’re gasping...
Why coping is not good enough and why expat partners should act now
I keep going on about this; if you are an expat partner and you feel professionally unfulfilled because you had to leave your job behind and are currently not working in your host country, please, please, please do something now. You can push your feelings and...
Five requirements for finding employment as an expat partner
When your partner is offered a career enhancing assignment overseas, you have to decide what you want to do with your career. Some lucky accompanying partners get the opportunity to either join the overseas branch or subsidiary of their current employer or continue...
Wanting to work as an expat partner? Do you really want to?
When your partner is offered a career enhancing opportunity abroad and you decide together to take the step, the family will enter a whole new phase in family life. If you are happy to leave your job behind and look forward to spending more time with the family and...
Giving up your job to become an expat partner – how will that impact you?
Not everyone outside the expat community responds positively when you talk about being an expat. Sometimes judgement is apparent; you are seen as a spoiled, stay-at-home expat partner with no material needs or wants, spending lazy afternoons at the pool-side sipping...