Alyssa and I explore how trusting your gut becomes a survival skill when you’re constantly translating between cultures, why many of her adult friendships have turned out to be with fellow neurodivergent people, and what it means to become the therapist you wish you’d had.

From teaching her children that creativity can be joyful without becoming their worth, to studying decolonial approaches to therapy that honor her full identity, this conversation is about learning to distinguish between what’s culturally constructed and what’s intuitively true.