You built a successful life abroad.
Now you’re wondering if it still fits.
For people who have lived abroad for years and want to figure out what comes next.
I work in Italian and English
Helping people living abroad rethink what comes next.
You left your home country and built a career abroad. From the outside, it looks like success.
Somewhere along the way, something started to feel off.
Maybe living abroad has changed you more than you realised, and the person you are now wants something different.
Maybe every trip home brings back questions, expectations and the familiar pressure to explain why you are still away.
Maybe you look at the career you built and no longer recognise yourself in it.
You keep moving forward, but the person you have become doesn’t quite fit the life you are living.
Does it sound familiar?
When success no longer fits
You have built a life abroad that, from the outside, looks successful. Somewhere along the way, it stopped feeling quite right.
You have changed, but parts of the life you built have not changed with you.
Work may be part of it, but so are questions about where you belong, what you want now and what still feels like yours.
Going home can bring its own questions, especially when people expect you to explain choices that once felt obvious.
You are starting to wonder whether the life that got you here is still the life you want to keep building.
The life you built still works. It just doesn’t feel quite like yours anymore.
You have changed in ways you probably did not notice while they were happening.
The life you built abroad grew around an earlier version of you. The work, the routines, the relationships, the plans you made. For a long time, they made sense.
Now, some of those choices may still work perfectly well on paper, while feeling less and less like the life you want to keep living.
You are not starting from scratch. You are trying to understand what still fits, what has changed, and what you want the next chapter to look like.
Something feels Off!
Something Feels Off is a free workbook for people living abroad who have spent years building a career abroad and arrived at a point where something has stopped fitting.
Subscribe to Italiani Altrove, my magazine on Substack and you will get the pdf with the Welcome email!
Ciao, sono Marica
I left Italy at university and built a career from zero across three countries. Twenty years later, I had a life abroad that worked on paper.
Then I stopped recognising myself in it.
Now I help people living abroad, wherever they started from. They built a life in a new country that works, and after years it no longer feels like their own.
I know this gap because I have lived it and found my way through it.
There's Another Way
I work with professionals living abroad who are facing a similar situation, not to rush them toward a decision, but to help them get honest about what is no longer working, what they actually want, and what a next step could look like from where they are now.
This is for you if:
- You are a professional living abroad.
- You have built a life that works, but parts of it no longer feel like yours.
- You keep showing up and doing what is expected of you, while something underneath feels increasingly off.
- You have spent so long adapting, achieving and meeting expectations that you are no longer sure what you actually want.
- You are tired of moving through life on autopilot.
- You know something needs to change, but you do not want to throw away everything you have worked for.
- You want to understand what still fits, what does not, and what you want the next part of your life to look like
What changes
You understand what has started to feel off and what is driving it.
You see where your values, priorities and daily life have stopped matching.
You build from what you already have, without throwing away everything you worked for.
You start trusting yourself to make decisions that feel right for who you are now.
The goal is a life that feels more aligned with the person you have become.
How we work together
We start by understanding what is driving the feeling that something is off. For many expats, it runs deeper than work. It is often connected to the gap between the life you built when you first moved abroad and the person you have become since.
A big part of this work is untangling your own voice from the expectations of family, culture and the version of you that got you here.
From there, we look at what still fits, what needs to change and what you want the next part of your life to look like.
You leave with a stronger sense of what you want and the next steps to start moving towards it.
This work includes
- Understanding the patterns that have been holding you back.
- Separating your own voice from other people’s expectations.
- Working out what you actually want now.
- Exploring what needs to change so your life fits who you have become.
- Building towards that change without blowing up everything you have worked for
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If we decide we’re a good fit, I’ll tell you which programme I’d suggest and why. If we don’t, I’ll tell you that too.