It’s time for part 2 of my own re-entry experiences. It took me a while to sit down to write this piece, but here it comes. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, it’s best…
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Rocking a Rocky Reentry – Repatriating During a Pandemic
Interview with Rebecca Lüppen Rebecca Lüppen is the founder of SheExpat (www.sheexpat.com) and provides expat career and life coaching for female professionals and executives. She helps female expats actively manage the changes that a mobile…
Reentry – Pandemic Edition
Arriving in Limbo The Corona pandemic has turned all our lives upside down and confronted us with unexpected challenges. It also hit many expats hard in 2020/21. It affects those who had just started their…
The 4 Stages of Reentry
Emotional Rollercoaster In the 1960s, Gullahorn & Gullahorn’s empirical research established what many repatriates intuitively felt: Repatriates from a stay abroad suffer similar stress symptoms during the readjustment to their home country as they did…
My own re-entry experiences – Part 1
To be honest, I’ve been avoiding to write this article for quite some time. As I look back, things could have been a lot easier. If I had known back then what I know now…
Re-Entry – Mixed feelings about coming home
Everyone experiences the return after an expat assignment in their own individual way. Whether as the assignee, partner or child, everyone finds their way back home at their own pace. In addition to your own…