Third Culture Thriving Karli Von Herbulis

I am fresh off of a month of messy travel, and today I want to do a special travel edition of everyone’s favorite episode: what’s saving my life. Because travel is a big part of our lives as global workers, whether we travel often or we travel infrequently but very long trips, and having some tricks up your sleeve can make or break your time. So, here’s some of my favorites.

Today’s episode is an intensely practical one: we are going to explore three different techniques you can use to ground yourself when you are feeling overwhelmed or panicky or even just OFF. Of course, this isn’t just something that global workers struggle with, these things apply to everyone, but it certainly does seem to come up for us, doesn’t it?

Today, I want to take some time to chat a bit about some of the books that have been released in the last few years, specifically targeting global workers. I have read all of these books and they have each blessed me in different ways, and I hope they will bless you, too.
 
Grit to Stay, Grace to Go (Eenigenburg and Burkholder)
Raising a Family Overseas (Danforth)
The Grief Tower (Wells)
Sacred Siblings (Eenigenburg and Grumelot)
Yet Still We Hope (Hilkemann and Beck)
Liturgies and Laments for the Sojourner (Fallis, Boyce, and Rubinski)

This week, I want to do something a little different than I’ve done before, and guide you through a time of reflection and processing, in hopes that the next few months can be joyful, intentional, and leave you feeling exactly as you’d like to as the year ends. We’ll go through a series of questions and prompts for you to name and think about. You can go at your own pace stopping and starting as needed, or listen all at once and then refer back.

Hey friends, welcome back to Third Culture Thriving. I’m your host, Karli Von Herbulis. I’m a wife and mom living in Kigali Rwanda, where I serve in my local congregation, run this podcast and online ministry, study spiritual direction, and recently was selected to serve as a Regional Director for my sending agency, New International, based in Ft Myers, FL.
 
But- if you had asked me to write that bio at the beginning of this year and predict what I would be doing for this school year? I would’ve given you a very different picture of my life.
 
Back in the pilot episode for this season (episode 101) I alluded to my new positions changing my long term plans for Third Culture Thriving, and I want to get into a bit of that today. But first, I want to ask you: have you ever had a dream or calling or vision you were confident in, only to have it change as time goes on and n ever come to fruition quite the way you thought it would?