Parenting Unpacked: Parenting Through the Loss of Self Jessica Gabrielzyk
For parents finding their way through the changes that make home, language, and even the self feel unfamiliar.
Amazon Brasil #1 bestseller in Imported Emigration & Immigration, July 2026
For some parents it is a move to a new country. For others it is a newborn, a diagnosis, a career that disappears, or a teenager who has gone somewhere you cannot follow. The trigger is different. The experience underneath it is not.
Parenting Unpacked follows families across six countries through four phases: Leave, Adapt, Anchor, Thrive. It is not a book about how to fix the change. It is company for the parent living inside it.
Ruth E. Van Reken
Co-author, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
Co-founder, Families in Global Transition
“It definitely will make the reader feel less alone, more supported.”Bree, USA
“I felt so heard. So many times I thought: ‘oh, so it wasn’t just me.’”Julianna Williams, reader
Jessica is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She has spent the last decade moving between continents with her husband and daughter, and writes at the intersection of parenting, identity, belonging, and global mobility.
Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored becoming a mother far from the system you trusted. Parenting Unpacked is her second book.
It is about what happens to identity when the conditions that once made you competent change faster than you can adapt. International relocation is its lens; the experience belongs to any parent navigating a major disruption.
No. It is especially resonant for internationally mobile families, but it is also for parents living through a new baby, diagnosis, career loss, divorce, or another destabilizing change.
Parenting Unpacked: Parenting Through the Loss of Self is now available on Amazon.
Amazon Brasil #1 bestseller in Imported Emigration & Immigration, July 2026
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