How to be Guided by Your Values
If you are an expat and have been living abroad for a while, you might be facing a very common dilemma for many expats: should you stay in the country you are living in or should you go home? Perhaps you are also contemplating the possibility to move to another country altogether?
If so, in this video I will give you some tips on how to reframe the choices you make that I find to be very helpful for most of my clients. It brings in a tool called "The Choice Point" that comes from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a mindfulness-based type of intervention. This strategy will help you be more aware of your thoughts and feelings and you will be able to make better decisions based on your personal values.
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Melissa Parks has her PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology, and currently provides online coaching to expats and global nomads, with a particular focus of supporting clients as they embark on new chapters in their international lives. She's also the co-founder of the Location Independent Therapists Community. During her 10 years living abroad, she worked in a number of mental health settings in both Spain and the Netherlands.
Working as a psychotherapist with clients from around the world introduced her to the power of self-compassion, and after seeing the success of these interventions with her clients (and in her own life) she decided to get trained to teach the evidence-based Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program.
In 2019 she repatriated back to her hometown of Seattle, Washington (USA). However, she still considers herself to be a "global nomad" because she interacts with clients, colleagues, family, and friends around the world on a daily basis. She's also in an intercultural and bilingual marriage (her husband is from Venezuela) and recently started the adventure of raising a bilingual, cross-cultural kid. You can connect with her and learn more at her website www.melissaparks.com