The Good Expat Life

10/05/2026

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧, 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬.

Not because relationships are weaker, but because mobility is higher.

Learning how to say goodbye, stay connected, and dare to form new bonds again is a profound emotional task.

Inside my closed Facebook group, we are talking about how parents can support children through these repeated transitions.

You are very welcome to join us there - find the link in the comments to this post.

08/05/2026

One of my clients uses an app to write honest, truthful, and encouraging letters to her future self.

I thought it might be fun to do something similar – namely, 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝟏𝟎-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟📝

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐌𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔,

You did it!

You’ve always lived by the motto that the worst would be to regret not following your dreams: So, you went ahead and launched your business.

From your 10-year-older, more experienced self, here is my advice and encouragement:
🌟You are allowed to choose the life and pace that suits you.
🌟You don’t have to see the whole path to take the next step.
🌟Your lived experience is not a detour – it is your expertise.
🌟Ask other professionals for help with what you aren’t proficient in.
🌟Above all, be gentle with yourself. You are capable, you are enough, and the work you are about to do will change lives – including your own.

With lots of love and encouragement,
𝐌𝐞, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔

👉 If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say, and what age would you dedicate it to?

04/05/2026

𝐈𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰!

And I find myself thinking about how many different stories will be part of this space.

Some will be at the very beginning of their move abroad, some will be in the middle of a transition, and others will be trying to find their footing again.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, both personally and through my work, it’s that living abroad often asks more of us than we anticipate.

It asks us to adapt, to stretch, to re-evaluate… and sometimes to rebuild parts of ourselves in a completely new context.

That’s why spaces like 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 matter.

For three days, you’ll be able to listen in on conversations that reflect the real depth of this experience: from career and business to identity, relationships, and emotional well-being.

I’ll be there as one of the speakers, and it would be lovely to have you there too.

You can join from anywhere, and each session is available for 24 hours after it goes live.

🎟️ Free ticket

📅 May 5–7

🌍 Online

You can still register here: https://www.theexpatwoman.com/summit/. 𝐄𝐍𝐉𝐎𝐘!

03/05/2026

🌍 𝐌𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐲–𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞: 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝

This is a theme I’ve returned to over the years – and after a pause, it feels both important and meaningful to bring it back again.

Perhaps also because I keep meeting families where these questions are quietly present, even when they’re not always spoken out loud.

Raising children internationally can be deeply enriching – and deeply complex.

Children often grow in confidence, flexibility and cultural understanding.

At the same time, they navigate repeated transitions, shifting identities and questions of belonging.

Over the coming weeks (through May and into June), I’ll be sharing reflections on:

✨ Third Culture Kids
✨ goodbyes and transitions
✨ teenagers and global mobility
✨ bilingual and bicultural family life
✨ when children settle faster than their parents

The deeper conversations and mutual support will take place inside my closed Facebook group for expats.

You are very welcome to join us there if this is part of your family’s life – you’ll find the link in the comments.

28/04/2026

Living abroad can change you in ways you don’t always expect.

Not just in the obvious ways like new culture, new routines, new surroundings, but in the much quieter, more internal ones.

How you relate to people.
How you experience closeness and distance.
How you begin to question where you belong… and sometimes, who you are in the process.

I remember noticing how certain patterns in my relationships became more visible after moving. Things that had felt manageable before suddenly felt amplified.

That’s often what happens in expat life – it brings things closer to the surface.

Which is why I’m really looking forward to being part of the 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭.

It’s a space where both the practical and emotional sides of living abroad are taken seriously. Where conversations move from career and business to identity, relationships, burnout, and belonging.

I’ll be speaking about attachment and relationships abroad – something I see again and again in my work with expats and international couples. And that I have lived myself!

If you’re navigating your own version of this journey, you’re very welcome to join us.

📅 May 5–7
🎟️ Free access

Register via the link in the comments.

23/04/2026

When I first moved abroad, I often wondered: “Why does this feel so much harder than I expected?”

On the surface, everything was “fine.” But underneath, there was a quiet disorientation — in my relationships, in my sense of self, in how I found my place in a new culture.

That experience has shaped so much of the work I do today.

And it’s also why I feel genuinely honoured to be speaking at 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 this May.

This is a space that doesn’t just talk about moving abroad as an adventure – but as a deeply human experience. One that touches identity, attachment, belonging, career, and the way we connect with others.

Across the summit, the conversations move from relationships and emotional wellbeing, to career transitions, business building, visibility, and finding your voice abroad.

I’ll be sharing insights into how our attachment patterns show up in expat life – and how understanding them can help us build safer, more supportive relationships, even in unfamiliar environments.

If you’ve ever found yourself navigating that in-between space of living abroad… this might resonate.

📅 May 5–7
🌍 Online, join from anywhere
🎟️ Free ticket

You can register here via the link in the comments - I look forward to seeing you there.

13/04/2026

🌿 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 – 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐞𝐞 𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 (𝐎𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞) 🌿

As part of my ongoing training as an advanced hypnotherapist, I’m currently looking for a small number of practice clients who feel ready for change.

Hypnotherapy offers a calm, focused way of working with the subconscious mind – supporting shifts that often feel both natural and lasting.

I’m offering a single session at a reduced fee of DKR 400 for:
✨ Stopping smoking
✨ Weight loss support
✨ Improving sleep

These sessions are ideal for you if you feel ready to approach one specific area with curiosity and openness.

📍 Sessions can be conducted in English or Danish and take place in person at my practice in Odense C. During my training, sessions are not available online. Subsequent sessions can be bought at my usual rate once I have qualified.

I have a limited number of spaces available, which will be offered on a first-come basis.

If this resonates with you, you’re very welcome to get in touch:
📧 henriette@thegoodexpatlife
Subject line: Hypnotherapy practice client

Feel free to share with someone who might benefit 💚

08/04/2026

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬!

10 years ago, when I founded The Good Expat Life, my world looked very different.

For as long as I can remember, I had dreamt of working therapeutically. A year after repatriating from England, I spent a summer quietly registering my business, holding a hope that one day it might become my full-time work.

At the time, I was a single mum of three teenagers, their dad still living abroad, and I was supporting us through my job as a school teacher.

Then life took an unexpected turn. I suffered a head injury on a school trip – ironically to my beloved London – and from that point on, the pace and demands of school life took too great a toll on my health.

So, for some years, I lived a double professional life: seeing clients one day a week while teaching the rest. Until 2021, with two children having flown the nest and the youngest on a gap year, I took a deep breath and let go of the financial security of teaching to go all in.

I haven’t looked back since!

Today, my children are fully grown and living their own lives, and I often smile at the thought that I now have a new “baby”: my clinic. Watching it grow has been one of the most meaningful journeys of my life.

It feels almost unreal that 10 years have passed.

I’d love to invite you to pause and look back too: What did your life look like in 2016?

27/03/2026

Recently, I had to cancel a long-planned trip to Cambodia and Vietnam due to the ripple effects of the conflict in the Middle East.

In the grand scheme of things, it clearly falls into what many would call a luxury problem.

And yet, if I’m honest, cancelling the trip brought up something that felt remarkably like grief.

That reaction made me curious about something many of us experience but rarely talk about: the surprisingly real sense of loss that can arise when plans, hopes, or anticipated experiences disappear.

In a new blog post, I reflect on anticipation, environments that nourish our nervous system, and why certain disappointments can feel deeper than we expect.

Writing about it made me realise how many psychological ideas sit quietly inside experiences like this: anticipation, unacknowledged loss, how certain environments regulate us, and the slightly awkward shame we sometimes feel about being disappointed by things that might seem “small”.

Interestingly, this reflection has inspired me to explore some of these themes a bit further over the coming weeks, rather than taking April off from writing here as I had originally planned. You are welcome to join us in the Facebook support group for expats, where I will share some of these April reflections alogn with some of my own photos from Vietnam: The Good Expat Life – Worldwide Expat Support.

For the blog post, you can read the full piece here.

Sometimes, the losses that affect us most are not the ones the world immediately recognises as grief.A cancelled journey, a postponed plan, or an experience we had quietly been looking forward to for months can touch something deeper in our nervous system. This reflection explores why certain places...

25/03/2026

𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞: 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

When an international chapter comes to an end, most of the visible pieces are usually well organised: the move, the job, the practicalities, the paperwork.

What is far less recognised is the internal transition that follows.

Repatriation touches identity, belonging, meaning, and relationships.

You return with expanded perspectives, changed values, and new ways of understanding yourself, and often meet environments that expect you to be the person you were before you left.

From a psychological perspective, this is not a problem to be solved.
It is a developmental process.

The task is not to “go back”, but to integrate!

In my clinical work, I see again and again how powerful it is when this phase is understood in that way. The feeling of being in between is no longer a sign of failure, but a sign that something in you has grown and is still finding its place.

In my own expat and repatriation experiences, one of the most important realisations was that belonging became less about geography and more about where I can be met as the person I have become. That shift changes the whole narrative: from loss to integration.

If this is something you are navigating at the moment, you do not have to do it on your own.

I offer a 25-minute free, non-binding consultation, where we can explore what you are going through and whether I am the right person to support you.

It happens only very rarely that I don’t have a waiting list – and right now there is space to begin.

I am currently preparing to close down shop for a few weeks, and I will be back in my practice again on 13th April – refreshed and ready to work.

You are very welcome to reach out already now if you would like a time after my return. Also, you are welcome to join in the conversation in my Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thegoodexpatlife