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For Military Brats
Home Was Everywhere and Nowhere
Home was everywhere. Nowhere lasted. This is where you name the identity you built in between.
For the adult who grew up in a military family and moved constantly — working through what it means to have no single place of origin and an identity built in perpetual transition
The Name It First Experience
You grew up moving. Every few years, a new base, a new school, a new group of people to make friends with before the move came again. You got good at adapting. You got good at leaving. You did not get good at belonging to one place because one place was never the point. Now you are building a life that is not moving and you are figuring out who you are when you stay. This workbook is about that. Who you are, what you built in all that motion, and what belonging means for you now. You leave with The Military Brats Identity Charter — a named account of who you are.
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
- Name what you got good at by moving constantly — and describe what it cost you to be good at it.
- What does belonging mean to you — and where have you actually found it, given that one place was never the point?
- What do you want from the life you are building now that is specifically different from the life you grew up in?
Research basis
Phinney (ethnic identity development) / Ender (military brat identity research) / Wertsch (military brat culture) / Pollock & Van Reken (third culture kids) / Cottrell (cross-cultural identity in mobile childhoods)
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