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What to Know About Reverse Culture Shock
You’ve heard of culture shock, but what about when your child returns home from abroad? Here’s what your kid wants you to know about reverse cultur ...
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 ...
Before you return: thoughts on preparing for re-entry.
The last couple months I’ve chatted with a half a dozen friends who are preparing for their reentry or are just beginning to find themselves naviga ...
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 ...
Helping your child through reverse culture shock
If you’re perplexed by the changes in your recently returned traveller, the following comments from three young adults offer some helpful insights. ...
Rocky Reentry: encouragement for global workers in re-entry.
Thoughts, encouragement, and resources for the global worker transitioning back to their home country. Help with expat reverse culture shock, re-en ...
Why Missionaries Can Never Go Home Again
When a new missionary first gets to the mission field, it is obvious where home is. It is that place where you just left. It is the place where you ...
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, ...
Lisa Espineli Chinn: Beyond "Welcome Back!" - 10 Things You Need to Know about Reentry
Reentry is the often-forgotten part of cross-cultural transition in a short- or long-term mission experience. Join this interactive workshop and he ...
4 Things You Should Know About Reverse Culture Shock
You can’t prepare for the culture shock that hits you when visiting your passport country. You go, excited to reconnect with friends and supports, ...
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 ...
Pulse Nightclub Shooting Survivors Proclaim Freedom in Christ: “It’s not a gay to straight thing; it’s a lost to saved thing”
June 12, 2016, was a day that forever changed the lives of Angel Colon and Luis Javier Ruiz. That’s the day a Muslim gunman massacred 49 people at ...