188: Pieces of Purple (with Michèle Phoenix)

Michèle Phoenix returns to the podcast to share about her new book, Pieces of Purple, based on personal experience and years of ministry with children of missionaries. This is a must-listen for parents, caregivers, teachers, and friends of Third Culture Kids (TCKs)!

• Find Michèle’s book, Pieces of Purple, here!
• “Even parents who have lived cross-culturally for thirty or forty years will never fully understand in an embodied way what it means to have grown up with all of these cultural and experiential and all of these other inputs shaping who you are.”
• “Being a TCK is indescribable. It is hovering darkness; it is glimmering light. May we embrace the wonderful as we wrestle with the hard. And may the God who cherishes His purple people reach through the layers that make us so unique to touch the parts that need His love and free us up to flourish.”
• “We need to tell our stories so that they know that there’s an after picture and that this is not the end. We can be the embodiment of hope to them. We can point to other people [...] we know who have been through challenges like this and who have found their footing again.”
• “I actually believe that our greatest strength is in mostly belonging, not fully belonging. If we can mostly belong in multiple places, we become bridge builders and change makers.”
• “I don’t think we realize how much just living in proximity to us is teaching the TCKs in our care about life and faith and holding the tension that we all feel.”

What’s changing our lives:

• Keane: Getting up earlier
• Heather: Daily devotional from the Worship Initiative
• Michèle: Learning about attachment theory and baking sourdough bread

Weekly Spotlight: Schools serving Third Culture Kids (TCKs)

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