Mindful Expat, With Dana Nelson, Ph.d.

Today's Mindful Expat Guest is Carolyn Parse Rizzo! Carolyn is a certified Child Life Specialist and Life Transition Coach focusing on healthcare and vitality abroad. From her home in Italy, she works as a health coach and consultant, supporting people who are dealing with various types of health conditions while living abroad. Through her company, Interval Coaching, she helps her clients navigate some of the challenges of managing health conditions in a foreign medical system, while also assisting them in shifting their perspectives toward their health, developing positive coping strategies, increasing their resiliency, and nurturing creativity and connectedness in their lives. What you'll hear in this episode: • Some of the common challenges that expats and other internationals face when managing a health condition in a foreign medical system. • How our mindset can impact our experience of health issues and our experiences navigating a foreign medical system -- and how we can shift our interpretations in a