Workbook
Going Home Is Not What You Think
The Identity Workbook for People Returning to the Country They Left
This workbook builds a documented understanding of who you are now and what home means in the present tense.
For the person returning to their home country after years abroad and discovering that "home" is not what they remember. The system is different. The people are different. They are different. This workbook addresses the specific identity crisis of reverse migration: you left, you changed, the country changed, and now neither of you recognizes the other.
The Name It First Experience
The place you went back to is not the place you left — and neither are you. Going Home Is Not What You Think maps the specific identity crisis of reverse migration: you left, you changed, the country changed, and now neither of you recognizes the other — and builds the documented understanding of who you actually are now and what home means in the present tense, rather than the version you carried in your memory across the years you were away. This workbook is for the person who expected to come home and found a foreign country instead — a familiar language in unfamiliar circumstances, familiar faces with unfamiliar distance, a system that has moved on without them. The Identity Workbook for People Returning to the Country They Left builds the new map — for the person you have become, and the home as it actually is.
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Sample questions
- Who are you going back to — and does the place you remember still exist?
- What surprised you most about the return — the thing you could not have predicted from the distance of abroad?
- What has returning taught you about who you became while you were away?
Research basis
Grounded in repatriation and return migration research (Gmelch, 1980) on the psychological complexity of return after extended absence / Sussman (2000) on identity shift and cultural re-entry after international experience / research on reverse culture shock and the mismatch between anticipated and actual experience of going home.
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