They tell you moving abroad will change your life, but no one tells you it means saying goodbye to the person you used to be...
When I packed my bags to move to Australia, I thought I was chasing freedom and adventure. And I was. But what I didn’t expect was the grief, the quiet, heavy feeling of saying goodbye to the old version of myself.
No one talks about this part: the identity shift, the sense of erasing who you were to make space for who you’re becoming.
Today, I want to share what that felt like, why it happens, and how I’ve learned to make peace with it.