{"id":8302,"date":"2026-05-21T17:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:48:52","slug":"on-living-abroad-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/on-living-abroad-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"On Living Abroad And Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How has living abroad reshaped your identity?<\/p>\n<p>Most people think moving abroad is about logistics: a new job, a new language, a new system.<\/p>\n<p>But the real shift is much deeper.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s you.<\/p>\n<p>If you left your home country around adulthood, you didn&#8217;t become a &#8220;third culture kid.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou did something different: you consciously rebuilt parts of your identity.<\/p>\n<p>And that can take different forms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You might feel rooted + expanded<br \/>\nYou know where you come from, but you now see the world through multiple lenses.<\/li>\n<li>You might have a hybrid identity<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re no longer 100% &#8220;from&#8221; one place, and that&#8217;s not a problem, just a new reality.<\/li>\n<li>You might feel in-between<br \/>\nNot fully belonging here or there, constantly adapting, sometimes a bit tired of it.<\/li>\n<li>Or you might have reinvented yourself<br \/>\nDistance gave you permission to become someone you couldn&#8217;t be before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>None of these is wrong.<br \/>\nBut each comes with its own strengths and challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is not &#8220;Where are you from?&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p>Who have you become because you left?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where the clarity (and the power) is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Curious:<br \/>\nWhen you go back &#8220;home,&#8221; do you feel the same\u2026 or slightly like a different version of yourself?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you like this post?<\/strong>\u00a0If yes, please leave your comment or share it with your friends.\u00a0Need clarity?\u00a0Get your FREE 3 day e \u2013 career coaching programme and clarify your career goals in 3 days. Start your career change today! Clarify your career goals and elaborate your action plan to achieve them.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has living abroad reshaped your identity? Most people think moving abroad is about logistics: a new job, a new language, a new system. But the real shift is much deeper. It&#8217;s you. If you left your home country around adulthood, you didn&#8217;t become a &#8220;third culture kid.&#8221; You did something different: you consciously rebuilt &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,54,65,99],"tags":[39,26,739,273],"class_list":["post-8302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expat-life","category-interculturalexpat-coaching","category-international-career","category-life-abroad","tag-expat-challenges","tag-expat-life","tag-identity","tag-moving-abroad","grid-sizer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcoaching.eu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}