Workbook
I Am American and I Do Not Live There Anymore
The Identity Workbook for People Who Left Without Leaving Who They Are
This workbook names both truths — American and not living there — and builds the identity that holds them.
For the person who is culturally, legally, and emotionally American — who grew up there, whose family is there, whose instincts are American — and who is building a life somewhere else. For the person navigating the identity split of loving a country they no longer live in and belonging to a place that does not fully claim them yet.
The Name It First Experience
Home is not the country you left — it is what you are still building. I Am American and I Do Not Live There Anymore walks you through what it means to be American from somewhere else: what you carry, what you are losing, what the country means to you now that you are outside it, and who you are becoming in the place you chose. It is for the person who is culturally and emotionally American, whose instincts and family are there, and who is building a life somewhere else — who loves a country they no longer live in and belongs to a place that does not fully claim them yet. You finish with a documented expatriate American identity that names both truths — and the person you are becoming from exactly where you are.
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Sample questions
- What remains entirely American about how you move through the world even though you do not live there?
- What about your home country do you most miss — and is it the place or the version of yourself that existed there?
- What has living somewhere else taught you about what you actually value versus what you assumed you valued?
Research basis
Berry acculturation / transnational identity theory / Erikson / narrative therapy / diaspora studies
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