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Workbook

After the Accident

Your Body Changed. Your Identity Needs to Catch Up.

Your body changed in an instant. Your identity is allowed to take longer.

This is for:

For the person whose body changed in an accident and whose identity has not yet caught up with what changed.

You'll produce:your Your Post-Accident Identity Document

The Name It First Experience

Your Post-Accident Identity Map

Before the accident, you knew what your body could do. Now it operates by different rules, people relate to you differently, and the life you planned requires a different plan.

The books about recovery focus on the body. This workbook focuses on the identity — which continues to change after the body has healed as much as it will. It names the grief, names what remains, and produces a document.

The output is not a recovery plan. It is Your Post-Accident Identity Map.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What is still yours in a body that has changed?
  2. What has the accident revealed about you that you wouldn't have known otherwise?
  3. What does the identity you're building look like — one that holds what your body can do now?

Research basis

Post-Traumatic Growth (Tedeschi and Calhoun) / somatic psychology and body-held trauma (Levine) / occupational identity and physical capacity in self-concept research.

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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

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Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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