6 Gems! vol. 12: How to Feel at Home While Away

I got kinda homesick. Here's what helped. Or would have!

At some point this summer, you may be what I’ve been calling “out of sorts.” Or alternatively “homesick.” Maybe you’re like my friend Monica (and she’s not the only one) who’s waiting for her new house to be ready. (Lots of overseas and other really big moves of late, it seems.) Or maybe you’re in a summer house, or an Airbnb, or shuttling between places feeling like your stuff - and self - is unfindable.

It is a first-world problem if every there was one. But it can be jarring. Here are 6 things I’ve figured out that will help.

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