Let me give you a mission. A thought experiment.
Still Learning: Self in Progress
This blog combines therapeutic insight with lived experience. I write about mental health, identity, and the emotional texture of everyday life — especially through the lens of living abroad. Many posts include activities and reflection tools to help you engage actively with the ideas to form your own insights.
You'll find essays, exercises, and honest observations — some personal, some professional, all designed to prompt thought and self-awareness. This is a space for exploration, for asking questions, and for staying with complexity a little longer.
Recent Posts ...
We often think the hardest part of moving abroad is getting the visa. But what about the daily, hidden stress of living on one?
Winter is (finally) coming ... to an end!
There's a subject I haven't spoken about directly on my channel until now: sex.
I want to start with a feeling I think we all know. It's that sense of emotional whiplash. That feeling of being perfectly calm one moment, and then suddenly thrown into a storm of noise, pressure, and obligation the next. It's disorienting. It can make you feel like you've lost your footing, or even your connection to yourself.
Saturday, May 30, 2025 – La Cinémathèque Française, Paris
Can you feel it? A little more light at the end of each day. The first blossoms on the trees. An unmistakable sense of movement in the air. Winter is ending, and spring is just around the corner.
You're the calm one. The rock. The person your friends and partners value because you're chill, easy to get along with, and "no drama." You rarely, if ever, get angry.
Before we begin, I'd like to invite you to do a small exercise. Take a moment and reflect on what comes to mind when you think of the name Marilyn Monroe.
Men will literally do anything except go to therapy.