Healthy Expat Parent

In the middle of trying to organize our PCS (‘permanent change of station’), I read this and it really stuck with me.  Maybe it will be my mantra as we continue this complicated international move.  

May I be loving, open, and aware in this moment; If I cannot be l...

Sister, there are people who went to sleep all over the world last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. Sister, those who expected to rise did not, their beds became their cooling boards, and their blankets became their winding shee...

This is an especially good reminder for those of us dealing with moving angst, as we currently are.  Happiness is a skill that we need to work on regularly.  I REALLY needed this reminder this week.

We can’t all walk around with smiles on our faces, sure, but can w...

I don’t know about you all, but my kids have spent the last 3months pretty much on their devices for hours each day thanks to distance learning requirements and eLearning sessions.  

Now that school is finally out for the year, and summer is limping along, with every da...

In this day and age, NOT having a portable technological device is a bit of a handicap, especially to kids in middle and high school.  We’ve dragged our feet as much and as long as possible until we FINALLY had to give in on the mobile phones (for our eldest; still in...

I try not to dwell on regret.  It takes a lot of energy to dwell ‘coulda’ and ‘shoulda’; and really, it’s not going to help or make the least bit of difference in what really IS, right?  Because you didn’t, and that is passed.  So get over it.   This isn’t about regret...

Can I talk to you a minute about the kindness of strangers? 

In a way, this makes me think very much of our assumptions of others, and how we can teach ourselves to assume the worst, or we can just hope for and think the best.  I think I tend to fall into the latter cat...

Dare I say it: There are so many things to learn.  If you are in the right mind set, you could literally learn a new skill or bit of info every single day.  Really, every one.  When a learning opportunity presents itself, I definitely look forward to it.  I try to keep...

It’s been a day, huh?  Kids are out of school now (not that the eLearning they were doing was taking up too much of their day, tasks piling up, working from home, trying to keep things clean and tidy ... it is just a lot, right.  A truly huge amount of a L O T....

I read this the other morning, while enjoying a cup of coffee.  It sparked a conversation over breakfast with my kids.  I think seeing what is going on in the U.S. right now is confusing for all of us, because we think we know what we believe but ... right now, everyth...