About Edgewalkers Collective
Edgewalkers Collective exists for people who've outgrown expat starter content and have lived abroad for 5+ years. Not quite local, not quite home. This space is for us.
What globally mobile folks and long-term expats carry has a clinical name: migratory grief. This is where it gets language.
Some people move abroad and eventually feel at home. This space is for the ones who haven’t — and are starting to wonder if that’s actually the point.
If you’ve been living abroad for five years or more and you still carry a low-grade hum you can’t quite name — not crisis, not unhappiness, just something that hasn’t settled — this space is for you.
You’re in the right place if:
You’ve integrated everything on paper and something still feels off
You’re high-achieving, functioning well, and quietly exhausted by your own resilience
You don’t need fixing — you need someone to witness what you’ve been carrying
The word “home” has become a philosophical question, not a geographic one
What you’ll find here:
Weekly essays on identity, belonging, and what sustained expat experience or long-term life abroad actually does to a nervous system. Written from inside the experience, not from above it. No quick fixes. No belonging hacks.
What this is NOT:
Therapy, clinical advice, or a community for people who just moved abroad.
Who I am
I’m Kay — Filipina American TCK (Third Culture Kid), 17 years in Spain, and a counsellor-in-training (CPCAB, UK). I spent over a decade working in inclusion and cross-cultural strategy, helping organizations bridge cultures. I was good at it. I was also quietly burning out from being the bridge.
Now I’m training to offer something different: recognition-based support for expats and global citizens who are done being told they should feel lucky to be here.
I write about what I’m learning — from the research conversations I’ve had with people who’ve lived abroad long-term, from my ongoing counselling training, and from my own arc.
If you’d like to go further with this…
If something you’ve read here has named something you’ve been carrying, there are a couple of quiet ways to stay with it:
If you’d like a sense of what working together could look like, you can read more on the Work With Me page.
If you already know you want to sit with this more regularly, you can upgrade to paid for monthly guided audios and quarterly pattern reports from my ongoing research interviews.
The essays will always be free. The rest is there if and when you want it.
If you’re just landing here, read these essays first.
Here are a few of the most popular essays on Edgewalkers Collective. They’re a good introduction to the type of conversations here.
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I’m grateful you’re here.