121 - Acclimatised to Discomfort

121 - Acclimatised to Discomfort

What are the implications of a life lived in adaptation? One of them seems to be a familiarity with discomfort! This can impact different TCKs different ways - some of us get super sensitive to challenge, over-saturated as we have been in early chapters. Some of us identify so much with challenge that we continue to seek it out in our adult lives. Either reaction may be working with an acclimatisation with discomfort. We can become so attuned to discomfort as our baseline that we normalise it - either in ways that keep us in it, avoidant or unclear about what changes we could make to improve our experience, or in ways that avoid comfort by seeking growth to exhausting degrees. Either way, what happens when we get acclimatised to discomfort?

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178 - Civic Spaces and TCK Belonging

178 - Civic Spaces and TCK Belonging

Dipping my toes into local civic processes this week - and exploring both my delight and curiosity in the 'local' given the TCK early exposure to 'global'. Join me as I ponder! Hosted on Acast. See ac...

3 Huhti 20min

177 - My week of pain, bees, sunshine and 'it's okay'

177 - My week of pain, bees, sunshine and 'it's okay'

A meandering episode this week - where I reflect on how I tell the story of my week, and how my narrative echoes a hesitation I hear for a lot of TCK stories, and how hard it is to let the little thin...

20 Maalis 25min

176 - TCKs and Maslow - Self-actualised... and grumpy

176 - TCKs and Maslow - Self-actualised... and grumpy

Finishing up this mini-series on TCKs and Maslow with questions about what self-actualised actually looks like for us as TCKs? What does fulfilled and meeting our potential even look like? And I am, i...

13 Maalis 20min

175 - TCKs and Maslow - Do you think you are interesting?

175 - TCKs and Maslow - Do you think you are interesting?

This episode tackles the self-esteem tier of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. I've spoken before about self-esteem and TCKs, but here I focus on the ways in which TCKs learn they are interesting... and ar...

27 Helmi 24min

174 - Pleased with Myself

174 - Pleased with Myself

How do we feel about the phrase, 'pleased with myself'? Very often we consider this feeling only allowed after very defined achievements - when we have done/completed/perfected something. This episode...

30 Tammi 21min

173 - TCKs and Maslow - Love and Belonging

173 - TCKs and Maslow - Love and Belonging

So many of us orient ourselves around the question, "Where do I belong?" In this episode I ponder what flipping the script could do for us - "Where do I want to belong?" Join me and, as always, I'd lo...

23 Tammi 22min

172 - New Year, Old Me

172 - New Year, Old Me

Happy 2026! In this first episode of the new year, I'm pondering how the TCK experience interacts with 'new year, new me' energy! I'm also wondering how the 'old me' might feel about that... Hosted o...

16 Tammi 22min

171 - Seasonal Traditions - or Habits?

171 - Seasonal Traditions - or Habits?

This year I've been encountering a new awful question - not 'Where are you from?' but 'What are your Christmas traditions?' In this episode I get curious about what I find difficult about this questio...

23 Joulu 202525min

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