You did everything “right”.

You settled.
You have friends.
A job.
A life you once dreamed of.

And yet… something feels off.

In this episode of The Returner Support Podcast, I speak directly to those quiet months after the move, whether you’re back in your home country or you decided to stay longer somewhere else. Not the honeymoon phase. Not the one-year milestone. But that in-between moment where the excitement fades and heavy emotions show up.

I share my own experience of feeling deeply unfulfilled despite having “everything to be happy”, and the pattern many returners and long-term travelers repeat:
when it gets uncomfortable, we leave.

Again.

We talk about:

• Why sadness often appears after things stabilize

• The urge to escape instead of staying with what we feel

• How travel can become an emotional avoidance pattern

• Why it’s dangerous to make big life decisions when you’re emotionally low

• The difference between living “fully” and constantly chasing novelty

• How to stop trying to fix yourself and start listening instead

• A simple journaling practice to create safety with your emotions

This episode is an invitation to pause.
To stop questioning your entire life just because you’re having a hard season.
To sit with sadness instead of running from it.

If you know someone who’s back home after years abroad, or stuck in the “should I stay or should I go” loop, share this episode with them.

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In this episode, we’re going straight into a topic almost every returner feels but barely anyone names out loud: disappointment.

The disappointment you feel when you come back to your home country and nothing looks like you imagined. The people don’t ask the questions you hoped for. The connections feel different. The life you thought you were coming back to… isn’t there.

I share a personal story from my own dating life, not because it’s dramatic, but because it shows exactly how disappointment shows up in different areas of our lives. The return. The relationships. The expectations. The desire to protect yourself. The urge to skip the process and run straight to the “good part.”

We explore why disappointment hits so hard when you return home, what it reveals about what you truly want, and how to actually hold yourself through it without numbing, rushing, or blaming.

If you’ve been back home and you’re feeling let down, by people, by circumstances, or even by yourself, this episode will make you feel less alone and help you see your disappointment for what it really is: information, not a failure.

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In this episode, I share one of the most surprising lessons I’ve learned from the book The Easiest Way to Stop Smoking , and how it applies directly to returning to your home country after living abroad.

What the author says about quitting smoking is exactly what we need to understand about going back home: it’s all about changing your associations, breaking the old brainwash, and deciding who you are now.

For the first 8 minutes, I talk about the core lessons of the book:

• Why quitting is not about willpower

• Why you don’t need to “avoid thinking about smoking”

• Why the withdrawal phase is just old reflexes

• Why you should celebrate your life getting better instead of feeling deprived

• How identity (“I’m not a smoker anymore”) is the real switch

Then I show how we do the exact same thing when we return home.

I explain:

• The stories we tell ourselves about our country (“I can’t do that here…”)

• How we associate “abroad” with freedom and aliveness

• Why feeling free abroad wasn’t about the place, it was about being present

• How I felt trapped even in Canada, proving it wasn’t the country but the situation

• How last year I decided to return home with a different identity: open-minded, less judgmental, fully myself

• How being grateful for both your time abroad and your time at home changes everything

• How being back home is like withdrawal: triggering because of old conditioning, not because something is wrong

• And why reacting differently creates a completely different reality

I share how “introducing the new me” at home changed my entire life: I set boundaries, chose myself more, said no without guilt, and even spoke on stage, because I stopped pretending.

I break down the poker analogy from the book: you already have the winning cards.

People around you may try to pull you back into who you were, but your skills, growth, and transformation from living abroad are still there.

And finally: when you miss your time abroad, celebrate what’s good in your life right now.
Use it as proof of how much you’ve evolved, not as a sign to run away.

This episode will help you return home without losing yourself… and maybe even help you fall in love with your life again.

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