Grieving for your culture incorporates everything that you left behind. This is primarily your identity but also includes tangible things that you started missing. Apart from social losses, one may mourn for the food, the atmosphere in your neighborhood, speaking your language, the jokes, the interests people had in you, accessibilities to your hobbies, the climate, the light touch you had with your day-to-day life, and everything that mattered to you or that started to matter after leaving it behind.

As an adult, a feeling of belonging can be built up by the coherence between the decisions you make in the two personal tasks. For those of you who are struggling in your new home, understanding these personal tasks is eminent because here is where you define the place you give yourself in the world; hence, how you feel you belong.

Our identity is molded by and located in the people around us. When people are subjected to an unfamiliar social environment, which was the case when you moved to a new home, you might not have realized that your identity was left behind. Still, you may have heard yourself say "I feel I'm not myself," "I'm completely lost," or even "This isn't me."