Articles
Teaching Students with Reactive Attachment Disorders with Nicola Marshall
What do you do when your students don’t trust you? For children who have experienced abuse and neglect, forming trusting attachments to adults and ...
Burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder: Dr. Geri Puleo at TEDxSetonHillUniversity
Dr. Geri Puleo, SPHR, is the President/CEO of Change Management Solutions, Inc., a boutique B2B consulting firm helping clients who are planning, i ...
Lori Anne Thompson
Lori Anne is a Survivor/Storyteller specializing in Child Abuse and Clergy Abuse. Her second stream of emergent expertise( August 21, 2020
Burn Up or Splash Down: Surviving the Culture Shock of Re-Entry
Just like a space shuttle struggles and strains to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, so those returning from living overseas can find themselves con ...
When Re-Entry is Hard
No one can prepare you for re-entry, not even your closest friends and family who have walked alongside of you through this season. Neither can a c ...
The Seven Lies of Repatriation
Ahhh “Repatriation” It’s one of those words that you don’t even look up in the dictionary until you start going through it yourself. For ...
When Transition Gets The Best of You
Ahh transition. I teach this stuff. I do seminars. I write a blog for crying out loud. So I hate it when it actually applie ...
Returning Well: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Re-entry. “Re” – meaning “again.” Meaning that you’ve done this before. This is not the first time. Sure, this time will have its differences. But, ...
Leaving well when leaving well is not possible
Leaving well for expats is all well and good as long as things go well . . . and good. But sometimes they don’t. Sometimes the final weeks of ...
Think Home: A Reentry Guide for Christian International Students
This popular workbook helps Christian international students think through the challenges they will face upon returning home. It includes thought-p ...
Re-Entry Challenges
Survey results In August 2013, I used Survey Monkey to find out more what challenges repatriates face on returning “home.” In this article I am sum ...
Repatriating Normally: 10 Things That Make Coming Home Feel Weird
You’re going back to normal. Your normal. Normal normal. And there it is. The reason that repatriating is weird. Because it was suppose ...