Hello! I'm Rituparna, your friendly neighbourhood coach.

I moved to the UK from India with a 14-month-old child and a head full of stories about what life abroad would be like.

I imagined long walks through London feeling like I'd stepped into a mash-up of Harry Potter, Jane Austen and a Bollywood film.

Instead, I found myself navigating postpartum depression, missing home, questioning my decisions and trying to understand a culture that spoke the same language but often felt entirely foreign.

Moving wasn't new to me. My whole life I have moved around India. Some moves were choices and some weren't. The running joke amongst my friends is that I'm a "global Indian". New cities, new schools, new groups of people. I became quite good at being the new person in the room.

What caught me off guard wasn't the practical side of relocation. It was the emotional side.

Because moving to a new country wasn't just about learning how things worked. It was about figuring out who I was when so much of what felt familiar was no longer around me.

As I spoke to other expat parents, I realised I wasn't alone.

Many had built lives that looked good on paper. The move made sense. The job was better. The schools were good.

And yet they found themselves asking:

Who am I now?

What matters to me now?

Have I made the right decision?

Why don't I feel the way I thought I would?

Those are the questions I help people explore.

Over the years, I've come to believe that we expect a lot from external change. A new country. A new job. A new chapter.

Sometimes it brings exactly what we hoped for.

Sometimes we discover that our doubts, fears and expectations have travelled with us.

My work is about helping people understand themselves better, judge themselves less and build a life that feels right for them.

Not the version that looks good on paper.

The version they actually want to live.

Because belonging isn't something we find when all the pieces finally fall into place.

It's something that becomes possible when we stop waiting to become someone else.