profound truth

The Emotionally Resilient Expat is a siren call for establishing resilience as a key function of successful expat life. Linda Janssen presents the research you need, and an intellectually responsible guide for a great workout in the mind-gym of emotional resilience. A true guide is someone who has taken the path and knows her ways around the gym. Janssen lives on the path and shows how she and others have grown fully fit for the ups and downs of global living. She rightly cites identity as a core issue, especially for those of us who live overseas. Looking at what is meant by cultural congruence, she tackles the challenge of how we can keep that identity in spite of where we live. The highlight of this wonderful book is, for me, the fact Janssen sees accompanying spouses as an answer to the challenge of cross cultural adjustment, and not the problem.* HR professionals, take note!

Linda A. Janssen provides the modern day expat with a roadmap of emotional resilience. A rich smorgasbord of tools and techniques, including a diverse selection of personal vignettes, current research/ theory and her own experience, invaluable help is at hand for those facing the challenges encountered in a new culture.

Janssen skillfully weaves her own thoughts and experiences with those who have lived, loved and studied all facets of the expatriate life. With this book, which should be packed in the suitcase of anyone heading to that vast unknown, Expatland, the chances of becoming The Emotionally Resilient Expat will be significantly increased.