Israel

5 Things I Wish People Understood about Reverse Culture Shock

November 9th, 2020|Accidental Soldier, Israel, memoir writing, mindset, new memoir, travel, Uncategorized, writing|

Six years ago, I self-diagnosed myself with Reverse Culture Shock, or RCS, an emotional displacement syndrome.  I know this because, after 7 years of doing reverse immigration to the States in 2007, I stumbled upon the symptoms of Reverse Culture Shock on an archived U.S. State Department's home page. Suddenly, I felt recognized and validated [...]

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Top 3 Things I Learned about How Visiting Israel as an Expat Helped Me Write about Home

January 24th, 2018|expatriate, Israel, Sand and Steel, Uncategorized|

My son's Bar Mitzvah at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, January 4th 2018 Although I am back now in Pittsburgh slowly reintegrating into the greater Jewish Diaspora, spending two weeks in Jerusalem, Israel to celebrate my son's Bar Mitzvah in January 2018 at the Wailing Wall had deeply reawakened feelings of feeling an [...]

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