International Living and Adjusting To Home

Fuck The Rules Podcast
Season 3 Episode 3

There seems to be little discussion about living internationally, adjusting to life there whether for a month or for years, what does that do for your mental health, and what the fuck happens when it's about adjusting to living back in your home country.

Caroline Anderson, my guest and also my cousin, talks with me about living and working in Japan, I share my experiences after only a month away in Germany, and our experiences adjusting back to life in the US.

PLEASE NOTE: We discuss multiple topics and some may be distressing to listeners: discussion of anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms.

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Caroline, in her words, "I'm a married cat lady, who had a crazy idea to live in Japan for almost a decade. I went from midwestern suburbs to a tiny apartment in a city before Google translate. Yet somehow I made it work."

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Susan Roggendorf is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. In addition to hosting and producing her podcast, she's a volunteer mentor and a supervisor to new therapists, as well as running a private practice as an independent provider full-time. A National Certified Counselor through the NBCC as well as an Emergency Responder & Public Safety Certified Clinician through NERPSC. Main populations Susan works with are folx living with anxiety and trauma experiences in the LGBTQIA community as well as First Responders, Law Enforcement, hospital staff, urgent care and Emergency Department personnel. When she's not busy with all those things, as a GenX elder, she's usually busy annoying her adult children with 70's and 80's pop culture references and music or she's busy in her garden.