Nowadays more and more people choose to move to a new country for study or career opportunities, and sometimes to join their partner.
Even though it can be an exciting experience, the decision to leave your country of origin, your loved ones, your home, your habits and go to a place you know little about is not easy.
At the beginning many things are new: you have to find a good housing solution, choose the furniture, the objects necessary for everyday life, in some cases decide on the school for your children, and all this while trying to understand how the new works. host country.
We may begin to feel estranged and alone, even as we try to build new connections. Sometimes we can also find ourselves in a defensive closure and resistance to change: perhaps we do everything to maintain friendships in the place of origin, even if from a distance it is not easy, and we feel the need for a physical presence.
Some get used to the new situation quickly and without major difficulties, while others miss their home, their habits, their language. Coming into contact with the new culture, understanding the way of thinking of the place that hosts us, expressing oneself as one wants and making oneself understood correctly by one’s interlocutors is not easy.
Generally, those who move to a new country have a series of expectations and want to improve their study and working conditions and enjoy better opportunities. Feeling dissatisfied or even upset and in difficulty for a desired and chosen change may seem strange, however, when we do the things we choose we don’t always feel peaceful.
When difficulties start to seem bigger than us, and things that we would normally manage without problems appear insurmountable and make us feel inadequate, creating a lot of anxiety, it may be time to ask for professional support to better navigate the phase of change that we face. we find ourselves facing and to discover new resources within ourselves.