The Four Phases of Culture Stress | Episode 24

It's Tea Time Somewhere

A quick Google search of “culture stress” will inform you there are phases to this phenomenon. One source summarizes it with the following four phases: fun, flight, fight, and fit. It’s important for you to know that EVERYONE experiences cultural stress to some degree while living in a foreign context. Knowing this fact and being aware of the phases of culture stress will help you recognize it more quickly, which then allows you to be better prepared, which also means you do not have to self-diagnose yourself as being a complete basket case. It will look different for each of us, but in this episode of It’s Tea Time Somewhere, we’ll be sharing stories of what each of these phases have looked like for us over the years.

Mentioned in this Episode:

How McDonald’s Helped Me Recognize the 4 Phases of Culture Stress by Alicia Boyce Is It Time to Go Home? (And How Do I Know?) by Denise James

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