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The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist

Dr Rachel Cason

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

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18:26

168 - Incoherent

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/11/21

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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20:30

167 - The Rules that Find Us Wanting

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/11/14

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... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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21:08

166 - Now I Can Be Scared

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/11/07

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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21:08

165 - Art that Retrieves our Story

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/10/17

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:11

164 - Loneliness and TCKs

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/10/10

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:03

163 - Dancing on Social Convention

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/10/03

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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21:17

162 - Feelings as Clues

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/09/26

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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17:00

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

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/09/19

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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32:20

160 - Sabotage... or Resistance?

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/09/12

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! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:44

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

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/07/11

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... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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17:56

158 - TCK Creatives

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/07/04

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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11:52

157 - Grief Sticks

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/06/27

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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17:14

156 - The Focus on Arrival

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/06/20

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'... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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18:39

155 - Are you allowed to be happy?

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/06/13

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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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12:05

154 - Sit with me and be

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/05/30

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... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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20:09

153 - Now that I'm 40...

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/05/23

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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18:38

152 - Tolerating the Awkward

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/05/16

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... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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19:36

151 - Control and Decision-making

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/05/09

I hear so many TCKs characterise themselves as 'control freaks'. Here I unpack what control might mean to us, given our TCK stories, and how our experience of control impacts our confidence around decision-making... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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20:19

150 - Behind Our Own Eyes

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/05/02

As TCKs we can spend a lot of time in other people's heads - looking at ourselves from their perspectives. What happens when we get back behind our own eyes? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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18:03

149 - The Cycle of Change, and Staying

The life of a Third Culture Kid therapist ·

2025/04/25

It's that time of year I get restless... actually, more like that time every four years... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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