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The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

Dr Rachel Cason

172 episodes

1 week ago

Rachel is, amongst many other things, a Third Culture Kid therapist specialising in Life Story Interview and Accompaniment, an approach she developed from her Sociological doctorial research into TCK identity, belonging and relationship to place. This podcast is a place she comes to contribute her ponderings on personal growth, working with pain, and the transformative change that comes from a better understanding of our own stories. For more information about Rachel’s therapeutic work, please visit: www.explorelifestory.com or drop her a line at rachelcason@explorelifestory.com

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Rachel is, amongst many other things, a Third Culture Kid therapist specialising in Life Story Interview and Accompaniment, an approach she developed from her Sociological doctorial research into TCK identity, belonging and relationship to place. This podcast is a place she comes to contribute her ponderings on personal growth, working with pain, and the transformative change that comes from a better understanding of our own stories. For more information about Rachel’s therapeutic work, please visit: www.explorelifestory.com or drop her a line at rachelcason@explorelifestory.com

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Episodes (20/172)

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

171 - Seasonal Traditions - or Habits?

This year I've been encountering a new awful question - not 'Where are you from?' but 'What are your Christmas traditions?' In this episode I get curious about what I find difficult about this question - how traditions can be hard when you've seen and experienced so many different versions of this season, and yet what cultivating habits around this season can do for us.

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1 week ago

25 minutes 7 seconds

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

170 - TCKs and Maslow - Safety Needs

And here we have the second instalment of our Maslow series... Safety Needs! What does safety and risk actually mean in our TCK stories? And how do we see these play out in our current chapters?

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1 month ago

20 minutes 28 seconds

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

169 - TCKs and Maslow - Physiological Needs

This is an episode I've been pondering a while - how do TCKs perceive their own needs in terms of an internalised hierarchy? I explore where Maslow's ideas and my own observations around need-juggling and autonomy interact here - and specifically around our physiological needs.

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1 month ago

21 minutes 32 seconds

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168 - Incoherent

Today's episode is pondering around how hard we work to create coherence, and my own experience this week of wanting to let incoherence be. TCKs often work so hard to prune and curate their stories, and I'm exploring here the relief I feel at not doing that today. Thanks for joining me!

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1 month ago

18 minutes 26 seconds

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

167 - The Rules that Find Us Wanting

What if we actually listed out our expectations of ourselves? What if we really allowed ourselves to acknowledge the many and competing ideas of how we 'should' be, the ones we have collected through our cultures and places - and sat with how utterly impossible they all are to satisfy? And then let go and grieve...

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1 month ago

20 minutes 30 seconds

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

166 - Now I Can Be Scared

I felt fear this week - fear jumping over time stamps, into my now. How do we explain feelings that show up out of space and time, dislocated within our own story? How do we understand fear when we are safe?

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1 month ago

21 minutes 8 seconds

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165 - Art that Retrieves our Story

This weekend I went to a print fair - and found a piece of art that triggered an unexpected TCK encounter. What is it about images that can press on those tender parts of our story so well?

Check out the artist at www.beicreative.co.uk or on Instagram @_beicreative

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2 months ago

21 minutes 8 seconds

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

164 - Loneliness and TCKs

I had some soft slow sadness hit this week - and it took me a while to identify it as loneliness. This episode explores where and why loneliness might be a familiar part of our TCK story.

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2 months ago

23 minutes 11 seconds

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163 - Dancing on Social Convention

So I've just been to a wedding - and broke a few of my own self-imposed rules. Here I talk about the moment of choice - to sit back and wait and watch before acting, the context necessary for the risk I took, and the after-effects of the choice I made.

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3 months ago

26 minutes 3 seconds

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162 - Feelings as Clues

In this episode, I observe the difficulty so many TCKs have with acknowledging their feelings - especially feelings of discomfort. Why is this, and what do these feelings have to contribute to our story?

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3 months ago

21 minutes 17 seconds

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161 - Birthdays, Celebrations and Getting it Right...

So, I found this episode I recorded way back in July! Excited to finally bring it to you - meandering though how TCKs might navigate birthdays and other celebrations when belonging is so often tied into the shape of those modes of celebration and traditions.

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3 months ago

17 minutes

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160 - Sabotage... or Resistance?

Back after a long summer gap - but reflecting on the processing there and on a theme showing up a lot this week - self-sabotage! This is an exploration of what are the stories we might be in when we watch ourselves deviate from our own goals and plans - TCK-style!

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3 months ago

32 minutes 20 seconds

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159 - I finished the to-do list... and it feels weird

Reflections on how things actually going to plan - life doing what we wanted - can actually trigger anxiety in TCKs! Even finishing my to-do list...

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5 months ago

23 minutes 44 seconds

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158 - TCK Creatives

Introducing a new online group for TCK creatives! If you are a TCK who loves working creatively, join us via Facebook (just search 'TCK Creatives') and discover how many TCKs are exploring their stories creatively, using these creative outlets to process their experiences.

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6 months ago

17 minutes 56 seconds

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157 - Grief Sticks

Inspired by a conversation with another TCK, I've decided to make tangible representations of all those losses that have felt so hard to name - especially the loss of things that we never had - and invite you to do the same.

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6 months ago

11 minutes 52 seconds

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156 - The Focus on Arrival

What happens with perfectionism collides with a short internal timeline? This episode I'm exploring the way in which our TCK experiences can shorten our sense of timeline, keeping our focus on achieving 'completion' even with those aspects of life that are just never going to be 'done'...

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6 months ago

17 minutes 14 seconds

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155 - Are you allowed to be happy?

So in this episode I'm exploring the ways in which we absorb different cultural ideas about what kind of life is supposed to make us happy - aka, are we allowed to be happy with something outside of that?

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6 months ago

18 minutes 39 seconds

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154 - Sit with me and be

A shorter one today - This is me just finding myself wanting to sit and be, so I thought I would do it with you - pondering what it is to be still in the midst of spinning between the different facets of self...

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7 months ago

12 minutes 5 seconds

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153 - Now that I'm 40...

I've turned 40! So cue reflections on aging, the ways in which our cultures and places contribute to our perspective on age, and a poem. Thank you so much for being with me for so long, and I'm so grateful to have arrived here, with you.

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7 months ago

20 minutes 9 seconds

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152 - Tolerating the Awkward

Good at smoothing out social glitches? Feel desperately uncomfortable being 'demanding'? Welcome to the club! I hear so many of us struggling to tolerate the awkward...

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7 months ago

18 minutes 38 seconds