Articles
Me, Myself, and I: Staying Grounded While Single and Living Abroad
Taking Route is a group of expat women who want to reach out to other expat women around the globe and encourage them to take root, right whe ...
Missionary Marriage Issues - Missionary Care
17 articles about marriage. Can be downloaded as ebook.
By: Ron and Bonnie Koteskey
Q&A: Navigating Cultural Differences in Marriage
When two cultural backgrounds come together, the result can be a deeper and richer relationship. But potential obstacles need to be clearly identif ...
The Center for Complicated Grief
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is a form of grief that is persistent and pervasive and interferes with functioning. It’s characterized ...
Frozen Grief: Why it Matters to Global Nomads
I was not aware of the concept of frozen grief until I stumbled across an article by Marilyn Gardner of Communicating Across Boundaries. All of a s ...
Helping Children Deal With Grief
You can't protect your kids from the pain of loss of a loved one, but you can help build healthy coping skills which will serve them well in adulth ...
When your last goodbye was your last goodbye: Processing death and life abroad
“Jesus looked up in the tree and said, ‘Zacchaeus, you come down . . . and I’ll give you a Snicker bar.'” -ME: circa 1976 Mary Musgrave love ...
When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …
Welcome to our second “Grief Week.” If you missed the first, you can read the posts here and here. COVID-19 has come with so much loss and change; ...
7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
Those of you who lift weights will be familiar with “lower body” and “upper body” days. The thinking is that by targeting the lower body one day, y ...
When Grief Gets Complicated
One may ask when grief is not complicated?! The essence of grief is that it is complicated. Grief impacts many aspects of life and your sense of st ...
Grieving an Unfulfilled Dream
The reality of living overseas is that you are going to grieve multiple things, deeply. Anyone moving out of their passport country has a dream. So ...
Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. –Elie Wiesel Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in com ...