Available Sessions

Neither Here Nor There: Reclaiming The Third Culture Body

Neither Here Nor There: Reclaiming the Third Culture Body is a 2-hour live online workshop hosted by Micheline Maalouf on Thursday, March 26 at 10:00 AM Eastern (EST), exploring what it means to live between worlds and how third culture stress shows up in the nervous system and body. This therapist-led experience offers culturally grounded, non-religious somatic tools to help you feel more rooted, regulated, and at home within yourself, without needing to pick a side.

Who This Is For

This workshop is for you if:

  • You grew up between cultures, languages, or values and often feel like you are translating yourself

  • You feel guilt, pressure, or hypervigilance around family expectations and loyalty

  • You struggle with people pleasing, overfunctioning, or losing yourself in relationships

  • You feel behind in life because your choices have never felt fully free

  • You want a gentle, culturally grounded space that honors both your identity and your nervous system

Part 1: Setting the Container

We’ll begin by orienting to the space and setting clear expectations so your nervous system can settle. Camera and sharing are optional, and nothing will be asked of you without consent.

Part 2: Understanding the Third Culture Body

You’ll learn how diaspora and third culture experiences can create chronic stress patterns in the body, including hypervigilance, guilt, identity confusion, people pleasing, and feeling like you are always translating yourself. We’ll explore how belonging, loyalty, and pressure can shape your nervous system responses, not just your thoughts.

Part 3: Gentle Somatic Exploration

You’ll be guided through accessible, culturally grounded somatic practices to notice where the in between experience lives in your body. Movements are slow, optional, and adaptable seated or standing. This is not about performing emotions. It is about building safety, choice, and self trust from the inside out.

Part 4: Integration

We’ll pause to integrate what was experienced and connect it to everyday life, including family dynamics, relationships, work, and boundaries. You’ll leave with language and practices you can return to when you feel pulled, tense, or disconnected.

Part 5: Live Q&A (time optional)

We’ll close with live Q&A and reflection. Sharing is optional. You are welcome to simply listen.

What You’ll Get Out of It

By the end of this workshop, you will have:

  • A clearer understanding of your personal third culture stress patterns and how they show up in your body

  • Simple, repeatable somatic tools for grounding when you feel anxious, pulled, or disconnected

  • More self trust and internal permission to hold complexity without self abandoning

  • Language for what you have lived, including why belonging can feel loaded

  • A felt sense of coming home to yourself, even when your life spans multiple worlds

Access and Replay Notes

You will receive the join link the day before and again the day of the workshop. A replay will be provided about one hour after completion.

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