Good at Beginnings, Good at Goodbyes: What Happens in the Middle
Adult TCKs get plenty of practice at arrivals and goodbyes. The middle is the part nobody taught us, and it is where most of what we wanted gets left.
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Writing Our Way Home: Integrating a Scattered TCK Story
Most adult TCKs I work with have never listed their moves in order. When they do, they are often surprised by what they find. This is about integration, what writing makes possible, and the choices we have now.
Untangling Where We’re From: Journal Prompts for TCKs on Culture and Belonging
Where are you from?” is never a simple question for a TCK. Here are five prompts on the cultures that shaped us, the assumptions others make, and what it might mean to feel whole across all of them.
Reparenting Resources for Adult TCKs: Books, Meditations & Where to Start
Reparenting is one of those concepts that sounds clinical until you actually understand what it means. It is simply the process of learning to give yourself, as an adult, what you needed as a child and didn’t fully receive: safety, validation, consistency, and the sense that your feelings matter. For many TCKs, the experience of…
Self-Compassion Resources for Adult TCKs: Books, Meditations & Free Tools
Something that came up in our community calls recently: the question of how to be kinder to yourself when you don’t quite know how. For many TCKs, self-compassion isn’t a default setting. We learned to adapt, to read the room, to put others’ needs first. Being gentle with ourselves can feel unfamiliar, even wrong. These…
Portable Intentions: A TCK Approach to Goals and New Beginnings
TCKs are phenomenal at beginnings—we’ve practiced them our whole lives. The challenge isn’t starting. It’s the middle. Here’s how to create portable intentions that actually work for TCK lives.
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“Everyone Leaves”: The Adult TCK’s Hidden Belief That’s Sabotaging Your Love Life
That deep-seated belief that “everyone leaves” isn’t just a thought—it’s actively sabotaging your love life. As an Adult TCK, you learned this through experience. Now it’s time to unlearn it and build the secure love you deserve.
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Home Isn’t a Location…It’s a Lived Feeling
We’re taught to think of home as a point on the map, but for TCKs it’s something else entirely. You don’t need to choose one place to belong or shrink your story to fit in a small box. Home isn’t a location—it’s a lived feeling, and you are allowed to feel at home in yourself.
