Welcome to the third interview of the Recipes for Resilience Series. I am with Carolyn Parse-Rizzo. She is a fellow lovepat and positive intelligence coach, mom, courageous solopreneur, and much more… Her professional expertise includes being a child life and trauma prevention specialist, civilian employee for military overseas, coaching in energy leadership and positive intelligence as well as combining yoga to all this. Carolyn hails from USA and is currently based in Italy and soon on her way to England. We discuss her expat / lovepat journey in better and worse as well as how she is now holding space for others.
What will you learn?
The Recipes for Resilience Series focus on sharing the opportunities and solutions – what is working, what keeps us going.
In this episode Carolyn shares her personal challenges and recipes for resilience as well as special tips to other lovepats and spouses of frontline workers. Lovepat refers to an individual who has relocated to another country for love.
Listen the interview to learn more about:
- Carolyn’s story from “love at the first sight” and where it lead.
- Her challenges and main resilience strategies as a lovepat.
- The importance of mind-body connection for your well-being.
- How she rebooted herself professionally and established Interval Coaching & Consulting to hold space for others.
Find More Online
To connect with Carolyn and find more about Interval Coaching and Consulting services visit her LinkedIn, Facebook, Website and Energetic Expat Program pages.
Cultural adaptation process requires a lot of resilience. You can learn more about the process on my blog where I map my initial adaptation process as a lovepat to the process. Mind you, you do not need to be a lovepat to go through a similar process while adapting to life abroad.
Pauliina Mapatha has twenty years of experience in both the government and non-profit sectors and is a certified life coach. She established her own consultancy company in 2006 and has found her passion for supporting individuals and organisations with change, transformation and wellness.
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