Navigating Job Hopping: Strategies to Overcome Challenges and Maximize Career Growth
In the past, it was the norm to spend your entire career at one company. However, the landscape has changed. Work dynamics, along with the evolving needs of companies and employees, have given rise to job hopping. But how often can you change jobs before being called...
How To Handle Painful Rejection and Make It Work For Your Future Success
Rejection hurts. But it's also unavoidable. Everyone, no matter how successful, will experience rejection. This happens in both our private and professional lives. Rejection can take many forms. It can be in a romantic relationship, friendship or a job search. But it...
Yoga For Perfectionists
I am a long-time yoga practitioner and teacher. I am also a perfectionist. At first glance, these two parts of myself collide and contradict one another. On one side, yogis are supposed to be OK with what is and let things be as they are without any attachment to the...
Mind-Body Techniques For Dealing With Stress
In acknowledgement of how stressful it can be to lead a highly mobile expat life, Expat Nest founder Vivian Chiona invited Ioulia Maimari, a clinical psychologist and cognitive behavioural therapist (MSc), to take a look at a few mind-body techniques to help us manage...
Is A Work-Life Balance An Impossible Dream?
5 tips on how you can make it work. Are you trying to achieve a work-life balance, but the attempt is stressing you out? Somehow you can't get it right, despite constantly working harder to achieve this equilibrium between personal time and work. This constant juggle...
9 Deceiving Fears Holding You Back In Your Career And How To Overcome Them
Fear is a warning signal and a way for you to protect yourself. It's a completely normal and human reaction. We all get afraid for various reasons. Fear is a powerful feeling, but it’s only when you let it take over that it can become a problem, both in your career...