Two-World Walkers
Are you sometimes feeling that your immediate friends and family cannot relate to you and your chosen life? Do you feel like you are living a double life? One being your day-to-day life and the other one your life relating to the other world you are connected to by heritage or by choice?
It is a special situation to be either multicultural or to have made another country your home by choice. The challenges are unique. There are a myriad of themes that present themselves including:
- belonging
- understanding the other culture in depth
- being unable to translate your experiences to people who only belong to one culture
- the lack of mutual language to share some of your joys, humour and observations with third parties.
As a person of this group you may often feel that your mastery of the second/foreign culture is not comprehensive enough and you feel self-conscious. The cultural ambiguity is often accompanied by misgivings and tensions as well as humour and a lot of reflection on your identity. This situation is a universal phenomenon which most people experience when they are multicultural or leave their shores to live in foreign countries for a long time.
Be curious to discover the gifts of your unique state of being. Coaching offers a chance to get clear on how you want to design and evolve in your unconventional life. Who are you? How do you want to show up in the world? The floor is yours!
