von Brigitte Litzenberger | Sep. 17, 2026 | Allgemein
From the outside, a career break can look like the thing everyone secretly wants. Time. Space. No boss, no commute, no Sunday-night dread. And yet here you are, inside it, and it does not feel like freedom. It feels like a room with no walls, which turns out to be its...
von Brigitte Litzenberger | Sep. 15, 2026 | Allgemein
August 2026 turned out to be a month with very little work and a lot of Scotland. From August 14 to 27, my husband and I traveled through Scotland. We organized the trip ourselves and started in Edinburgh, where the Fringe Festival was in full swing. We also had...
von Brigitte Litzenberger | Sep. 5, 2026 | Inpat/Expat
You caught yourself doing it again. Hanging back in a room where the old you would have walked straight in. Maybe it was smaller than that. You left the good expensive shoes in the closet. You let someone else answer the question you knew the answer to. You said the...
von Brigitte Litzenberger | Sep. 3, 2026 | Inpat/Expat
From the outside, your life looks like the answer to someone else’s prayer. You do not have to work right now. You have time with your children. The family is secure. The move came wrapped in a good opportunity. Someone looking in through the window would see a...
von Brigitte Litzenberger | Aug. 31, 2026 | Inpat/Expat
Your partner got the offer. The move is happening. And somewhere in the pile of paperwork, a quiet question started forming. Should I even ask what support exists for me? Or could that make things harder for him at work? That second question is the one that stops most...
