​Long before "digital nomad" was a term, I chose autonomy over traditional stability.

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Starting in the late 80's, I moved countries by choice, built careers locally, navigated bureaucracies, and mentored others through the same maze.

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From the outside, it looked expansive. Self-directed. Resilient.

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And for a long time, it was.

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But after 30+ years of constant reinvention, something shifted.

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The resilience I'd relied on turned into a silent exhaustion.

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The freedom I'd chosen started to feel like fragmentation.

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And the question "Where is home?" stopped having an answer.

I wasn't depressed. I was burned out from relocating.

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I was disoriented from the repeated cross-border moves.

 

Over time, the steady layering of cultural adjustments and the ongoing effort to internalize new social norms

left me totally depleted. 

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And when I looked for support? There was nothing.

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Therapists didn't have frameworks for long-term relocation burnout.

Online communities didn't exist yet.

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Unless you were a "stationed expat" on a corporate assignment with built-in support, you were navigating this alone.

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So I created what I needed

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I developed a method to recover from relocation fatigue--not by stopping, but by integrating.

 

By untangling the layers--instead of adding more.

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By rebuilding coherence without giving up the global life I'd chosen.

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That work changed everything.

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At 65, I finally feel grounded--not because I stopped moving, but because I stopped needing to move..

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Home became internal.

Location became intentional.

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And that's the shift I now guide others through.

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If you recognize yourself in this story, you're not alone.