Workbook
After the Badge
Rebuilding Identity After a Career Defined by a Uniform
The career is over. The question is who you are without it — and that question has an answer.
For the retiring or recently separated officer or service member whose career was a total identity, not a job.
The Name It First Experience
Uniformed service creates one of the most complete professional identity formations in any sector — the culture, the mission, the uniform, the hierarchy, all of it becomes the architecture of who you are. And then it ends. Most veterans and retiring officers do not know what to do with the self that remains. This workbook is the alternative to becoming the former version of yourself indefinitely. The output is not a second career plan. It is Your After the Badge Charter.
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Sample questions
- Who are you now that the uniform is off — and how much of what you thought was you was actually the role?
- What from your service are you carrying that you have not fully named or examined — the good, the complicated, and the weight?
- What does the next chapter require from you as a person — and what has the service built in you that belongs to it?
Research basis
Schlossberg transition theory applied to military and law enforcement separation (endings, neutral zone, and beginning — applied to post-service transition) / Litz et al. moral injury (accumulated moral inventory from a career in public safety or military service — the unprocessed material of post-service transition) / Maslach burnout research applied to post-service identity and the civilian transition / MacLean & elder veteran identity transition research / Kemp & David law enforcement retirement identity research
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