How to Cope with Panic Attacks
All of a sudden, your heart starts pounding, your breathing becomes faster and shallower – as if you are running out of air – and your palms are sweaty. You may be shaking or you feel a tingling or numbness.…
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Expat Story: How travelling helped me get settled…
Expat Nest welcomes culture/travel blogger Tea Gudek Šnajdar, who talks about the special role that travel has played in her expat experience. Exploring her new country and taking advantage of the many opportunities available to travel outside of it has…
Your headache toolkit: 8 tips for managing headaches
How often do you get headaches? Enough to affect your happiness? Whether you experience occasional migraines or suffer from a chronic condition, headaches can be both emotionally and physically distressing. They may prevent you from getting together with friends or…
Vivian Chiona reviews: The Mobile Life
Today I’d like to share a wonderful book with you – Diane Lemieux and Anne Parker’s The Mobile Life: A New Approach to Moving Anywhere – and encourage you to keep reading, especially if you’re both an expat and a…
Love-expat: Creating a meaningful life abroad (Part B)
In our previous article we covered some important aspects to take into account when deciding to move abroad for love. Today’s article is for those who have taken the leap… or are about to! Here we give some pointers on…
Expat story: The gifts of a cross-cultural relationship
In this Tuesday’s article, Expat Nest shares the story of American-born Lori, who recently lost her great love. Lori and her Dominican husband met in her hometown of Rochester, New York, where they spent nearly seven years of their married…
Vivian Chiona reviews: The Emotionally Resilient Expat
I read a lot of books this summer, one of which was Linda A. Janssen’s The Emotionally Resilient Expat: Engage, Adapt and Thrive Across Cultures (2013). I wanted to share this book with you and encourage you to keep reading,…