The Compass You Carry: Writing, Yoga and Home on the Move
What keeps you anchored when your address keeps changing? Author and holistic coach Nikki Cornfield reflects on raising third culture kids across cultures, holding onto herself through repeated moves, and how writing her memoir, The Soul’s Compass, A Traveller’s Way Home, turned private healing into a story she could finally own. She also shares why yoga became her portable sanctuary, a practice that travels as well as she does. For settled expats and perpetual nomads alike, this is a conversation about finding your inner compass and learning to trust it.
About the Guest
Nikki Cornfield is an author, travel writer and holistic health and growth coach who has spent much of her adult life moving between countries and cultures. Along the way she raised third culture kids, weathered the losses that quietly accompany every relocation, and eventually turned to the page to make sense of it all. The result is her memoir, The Soul’s Compass, A Traveller’s Way Home.
What You’ll Walk Away With
When your address keeps changing, what keeps you anchored? In this conversation, Nikki reflects on the challenges of family life across cultures, from helping children build an identity that belongs to no single place, to holding onto her own sense of self while everything around her shifted. She shares how writing her memoir began as a private act of healing and became a way of owning her story rather than being defined by it. We also explore yoga as a practice that travels well: a portable sanctuary that offers steadiness when the ground beneath you won’t stay still. Whether you see yourself as a settled expat or a perpetual nomad, this episode is an invitation to ask where your inner compass is pointing, and whether you’ve been listening to it.
Connect with the Guest
Find Nikki on Instagram and Facebook, or by email at nikki.cornfield@planet.nl. Her memoir, The Soul’s Compass, A Traveller’s Way Home, is available on Amazon.
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