Set limits. Speak up. Put yourself first.

These are messages many people encounter in therapy, in self-help culture, in their Instagram feeds.

And then there is another set of values — harder to put into a slogan, because they were never meant to be one. The pull to

Living Between Worlds

Many immigrants and their children carry a particular kind of exhaustion. It doesn't come from one event. It comes from living between two worlds — day after day, year after year.

Researchers and clinicians have a name for this: the third culture experience. Neither fully of the heritage culture nor the adopted