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

January 23 173 - 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 love to hear your feedback so send that through to [email protected]
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23 min
January 16 172 - 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...
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23 min
December 23, 2025 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 question - how traditions can be hard when you've seen and experienced so many different versions of this season, and yet what cultivating habits around this season can do for us.
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26 min
December 05, 2025 170 - TCKs and Maslow - Safety Needs
And here we have the second instalment of our Maslow series... Safety Needs! What does safety and risk actually mean in our TCK stories? And how do we see these play out in our current chapters?
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21 min
November 28, 2025 169 - TCKs and Maslow - Physiological Needs
This is an episode I've been pondering a while - how do TCKs perceive their own needs in terms of an internalised hierarchy? I explore where Maslow's ideas and my own observations around need-juggling and autonomy interact here - and specifically around our physiological needs.
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22 min
November 21, 2025 168 - Incoherent
Today's episode is pondering around how hard we work to create coherence, and my own experience this week of wanting to let incoherence be. TCKs often work so hard to prune and curate their stories, and I'm exploring here the relief I feel at not doing that today. Thanks for joining me!
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19 min
November 14, 2025 167 - The Rules that Find Us Wanting
What if we actually listed out our expectations of ourselves? What if we really allowed ourselves to acknowledge the many and competing ideas of how we 'should' be, the ones we have collected through our cultures and places - and sat with how utterly impossible they all are to satisfy? And then let go and grieve...
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21 min
November 07, 2025 166 - Now I Can Be Scared
I felt fear this week - fear jumping over time stamps, into my now. How do we explain feelings that show up out of space and time, dislocated within our own story? How do we understand fear when we are safe?
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22 min
October 17, 2025 165 - Art that Retrieves our Story
This weekend I went to a print fair - and found a piece of art that triggered an unexpected TCK encounter. What is it about images that can press on those tender parts of our story so well?

Check out the artist at www.beicreative.co.uk or on Instagram @_beicreative
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22 min
October 10, 2025 164 - Loneliness and TCKs
I had some soft slow sadness hit this week - and it took me a while to identify it as loneliness. This episode explores where and why loneliness might be a familiar part of our TCK story.
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24 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…