Tag: mental-health

• Stepping Into the Void

  In the initial months after our boy was born, one constant thought loomed in my mind, “Why would anyone make the mistake of having more than one?” It wasn’t just that life with a newborn was hard and hectic; it was that the whole stretch from labour to recovery was difficult in ways that no…

• The Myth of the Resilient (Third Culture) Kid

  It’s mid-morning in Singapore and already the air is throttled with suffocating heat. Just around the corner from the bustle of Orchard Road is a school, its sprawling campus an oasis from the frenzy of the city. Today, school is not in session. The campus is muted, with only the rustling of towering palm fronds…

• Navigating the Third Culture Kid Life

  It’s a late autumn afternoon in Hong Kong, the streets grey under relentless sheets of steel-grey clouds. I am 11-years-old, curled up in the backseat of a taxi, my dad’s cellphone pressed hard against one ear as hot tears roll down my cheeks. My world is falling apart and I can’t stop sobbing. I call…