NAME IT FIRST

Extension

For Black Daughters

The Identity Between Who They Raised You to Be and Who You Are

Who they raised you to be is real. Who you are is also real. Name both.

This is for:

For the Black daughter working through the inheritance of how she was raised and choosing what she carries forward on her own terms.

You'll produce:your Your Black Daughter Identity Map

The Name It First Experience

Your grandmother survived things she never named. Your mother survived things she never named. You are the first generation with the space to name yours. This extension workbook gives you that space. You will build Your Black Daughter Identity Map — a stress-tested and signed document of what you carry and what you choose.

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Sample questions

  1. What is something you love about yourself that took you a while to fully own?
  2. What has your family given you — in belief, in culture, in love — that you carry everywhere?
  3. Who is the woman in your life you most want to become — and what do you see in her?
  4. What are you building in your life right now that feels most like your own?

Research basis

Cross on Nigrescence / Collins on Black feminist thought and Black mothering / Crenshaw on intersectionality / scholarship on intergenerational transmission in Black families

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

Print Paperbackpersonalize

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

$19.99

eBook + journal

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

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Audiobook

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

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Hardcoverpersonalize

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

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

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

$9.99

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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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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