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What does home mean when you are always moving on? What does belonging mean when your address changes every few years? And how do we reconcile our evolving identities with the places we’ve left behind? Catriona Turner talks about her travels from Scotland to France, to Congo and Uganda, and back home again over 14 years, and how she has redefined what she calls home.
For more episodes on home, check out my solo episode on Sanctuary, Retreat, Belonging: The Importance of Home in Difficult Times; and for more on Third Culture Kids, check out the interview on Djibouti with Rachel Pieh Jones. You can also find more about my thoughts on home in my memoir, Pilgrimage: Lessons Learned from Solo Walking Three Ancient Ways.
Catriona Turner is the Scottish author of Nest, A Memoir of Home on the Move.
- Life in Kampala, Uganda – discovering an unexpectedly cosmopolitan city with thriving coffee and food scenes
- Experiencing the Republic of Congo – navigating life in Pointe-Noire, a Francophone oil city with strong French influences
- The challenges of living in transition – the struggle between temporary mindset and embracing the present moment
- Unpacking the loaded terms ‘expat’ and ‘immigrant’ — privilege, cultural integration, and identity
- The evolution of “home” – from a fixed geographical location to a multidimensional concept that travels with you
- How children experience third culture living
- Repatriation challenges – seeing your own culture through new eyes after years abroad
- Unexpected appreciations – discovering the beauty of Scotland through foreigners’ perspectives
- Book recommendations for understanding global living, going home, and repatriation
You can find Catriona at CatrionaTurner.com and her book, Nest, on Amazon.
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