Third Culture Thriving

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 (

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 stop

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 as

I didn’t plan to do a sabbatical over the summer, the way that some people plan years in advance when they’ll take an intentional season away from certain professional or ministerial duties. No, my idea to take a sabbatical was born out of the depths of trauma and burnout, and it felt like the only path forward. The last year has been an intense one for me personally, wrought w

Yes, I’m saying “summer off” instead of a “sabbatical” for a reason. Because when it came down to it, my sabbatical didn’t go as planned in a number of ways. Today, I’m sharing some reflections and updates from the summer, as well as some of the small rhythms I’ve developed that I’m increasingly grateful for. I hope this will inspire you to reflect on your own las

Life feels like a lot right now, both in some overwhelming ways and some great ones, so I feel like it’s best to give you kind of a “state of the soul” today. Both for your information, and my own need for processing. And then, to give you a bit of a manifesto as I enter a summer sabbatical of sorts. Thanks for being here.

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