The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

By Dr Rachel CasonSociety & Culture Alternative Health Health & Fitness Mental Health

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist episodes

November 17, 2023 94 - Let's break a social rule... on purpose!
Ok, this is a fun one... What do we feel about breaking social rules? For me there is a shiver of dread around this, a reaction that remembers the cost of cultural faux pas. But what about if we are breaking rules intentionally? What rule would you break?
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13 min
November 10, 2023 93 - Are they the right one for me?
This is such a common question I hear from Third Culture Kids trying to work out their relationship stories... and in this episode I want to explore what could be going on here for us. Why do we need to be so sure? And what could this focus on the other be denying ourselves?
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17 min
November 03, 2023 92 My weird is showing on my walls...
Now that I have an established space, I'm feeling a whole new set of feelings around inviting people into that space - my weird is showing on the walls! In this episode I explore more about the vulnerability of letting ourselves show up in our homes.
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20 min
October 27, 2023 91 - Power and Change
Change has been the constant for so many Third Culture Kids, for so long. If there is one thing we can count on, it's change. Yet what is our relationship with change - and how much power do we feel we have in it?
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20 min
October 20, 2023 90 - I Belong Where I Want To
This title, "I Belong Where I Want To" feels so subversive... I'm so acutely aware of the pain I and so many other TCKs have felt around belonging that this phrase feels almost ridiculous. And yet I've come to believe it - utterly.
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22 min
October 13, 2023 89 Dancing through our Story
Rachel explored discovering a new way to connect to her body, moving from self-consciousness into joy, and reflects on the ways our bodies hold different chapters of our stories.
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19 min
October 06, 2023 88 Do I Need or Do I Want?
Rachel explores how many TCKs have learnt to minimize needs, to such an extent that the things we need to thrive start to feel like luxuries we shouldn't want. She offers another way in to discovering what our needs may be and how to acknowledge them.
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17 min
September 29, 2023 87 My Pet Peeve
In this episode, Rachel goes head to head with here pet peeve - her own habit of living by old rules she don't want anymore... So many Third Culture Kids picked up rules throughout their lives, are they serving us anymore?
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20 min
September 08, 2023 86 Blocks to Journaling
Journaling comes up a lot as a tool to help us process our stories. In this episode Rachel explores why journaling can be useful to us, what blocks we may face and some options to open up journaling as an option for us.
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27 min
September 01, 2023 85 Social Capital - TCK impact audit!
Rachel came across the idea of social capital in her sociology studies, but sees it come up a lot for Third Culture Kids. If social capital is the idea of the social networks that make us feel connected and embedded in our communities, do TCKs feel they have enough?
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18 min

About The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

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Rachel is, amongst many other things, a Third Culture Kid therapist specialising in Life Story Interview and Accompaniment, an approach she developed from her Sociological doctorial research into TCK…