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Lidia Budziszewska

Lidia Budziszewska

Clinical psychologist, PhD, and founding partner of Open Psychology multilingual therapy center in Madrid; bilingual lecturer at Universidad Europea de Madrid.

Sep 2, 2026

23:11
would
23:12
be, I think one thing we underestimate is, but in general, it's not even about moving abroad.
23:19
It's because we expect when we choose something or we even don't choose, but something looks exciting to us, like a new challenge, we expect only good feelings and, you know, feel good about it, have no doubts, no difficult feelings.
23:33
And this guilt and grief we're speaking about, this is this other side.
23:37
And I guess any decision in life we make brings us and connects us to choosing A, not choosing B.
23:48
If I chose to be a psychologist, I didn't choose to be a pianist or I didn't choose to be, I don't know, a swimmer or… You know, it sounds very obvious, but it's not that obvious when we think about it deeper.
23:59
Because, I mean, in a way, we make a choice and it feels like a conscious choice.

14 MINS LATER

38:15
So, for example, take us through one of the big challenges, big and small, that people are facing when they arrive in a new country that can really make them feel very vulnerable.

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