Category: Blog

Moving abroad is simultaneously the most inspiring, uplifting, and exhausting process to go through! Perhaps you've been offered a new job, or you are a single female wanting a fresh start and have made the bold decision to move to a foreign country, or your spouse has been offered a job abroad and you will [...]

Health is wealth. If Covid-19 and the countless lock downs, quarantines, and shortages in essential consumer goods has taught us, is that a healthy population, work force, and families are key to a healthy economy. Not only the economy, if you are the main caregiver in your family, getting sick can not only disrupt your [...]

Moving can be both exhilarating and terrifying. You are leaving behind everyone and everything you love to start a new adventure. It is the perfect opportunity to go off and explore the world, make new friends and boost your confidence. If you are a woman moving abroad whether done with a family/partner/alone it is important [...]

Reading is a universal pastime practiced by many cultures and peoples. Nearly every country has public and private libraries, university libraries, bookshops, book stores, book cafe's and of course online platforms to buy books. And thanks to technology, you can read from a Kindle, listen to books on audible, and download books and short stories. [...]

Domestic violence, also referred to as intimate partner abuse or violence effects some 1.3 million women, and over 800,000 men in the United States alone. On a global scale an estimated 640 million women have experienced some form of domestic and intimate partner sexual violence in their life. It's a cycle of abuse that is [...]

Money is still a very uncomfortable subject for many people to openly talk about, in fact many people would talk about anything else than money, even their sex lives! Your salary, how you manage your money, if you inherited money, or make a lot of money (or very little), can be very uncomfortable. But, if [...]

So you have found the love of your life abroad. Perhaps you are recently engaged, or married and you are making plans to relocate to your fiancé's or spouses country. There are some things that you will need to take into serious consideration as you start your life as a married woman abroad. The first [...]

Making friends as an adult is hard, making friends as an expat is even harder!  Building authentic and deep friendships as an expat is possible, below I share my story how I found a good friend during my time in Istanbul Turkey, in 2020.  “The secret ingredients of making authentic friendships as an expat are [...]

Living In Thailand, specifically Bangkok, can be amazing, but you have to be smart and strategic. There's no easy way of saying this politely, but as a "Western" expat woman your feminism is not an attractive quality, and if you're single and looking to date, your pool is very, very, very small.   “Beauty and attraction [...]

What are your "must haves" for living happy and quality of life? We all have necessities and desires to live a happy and quality life. Even at different stages of life, whether you're married with a family, retired, a single young professional, or newly divorced I share how to find your "must haves" when living [...]