For most, “where are you from?” is everyday conversation. For Third Culture Kids, it is often one of the most challenging questions we face. This past weekend, people from Lithuania, the UK, Germany, France, Finland, Norway, Taiwan, Canada, and all over the United States gathered to talk about that question. That conversation was a…
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.
What do you reach for when life gets hard? (Not what you think you should reach for…What you actually reach for.) For some of us, it’s alcohol. For others, it’s work, the kind of relentless busyness that feels productive right up until it doesn’t. It might be food, or screens, or the urgent, consuming search…
Most of us became experts at traveling light. We learned early that attachment was complicated — that the things you loved too much would just become heavier to carry, or harder to leave behind. Some of us got good at not getting attached to anything at all. Others held on to one or two things…
“The biggest mistake we make is that we build our homes in other people.” For TCKs, this isn’t just poetry—it’s autobiography. Learn why we struggle with boundaries and how to love others without losing yourself.
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.
