Workbook
The Clean Break
How to Leave a Life Behind Without Carrying It With You
This workbook produces a documented departure — what you are leaving, what you are keeping, decided on your terms.
For the person in the process of dismantling a life — selling the house, closing accounts, saying goodbye, leaving a job, ending a chapter — who needs a guide for doing it deliberately instead of chaotically.
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Chaotic exits tend to follow you — this workbook ends things on your terms. The Clean Break walks you through the deliberate dismantling of a life: what to sell, what to close, what to say, who to say it to, what you are actually leaving behind, and what you are deciding — consciously — to carry forward. It is for the person in the process of closing a chapter — job, home, relationship, city, identity — who wants to depart deliberately rather than just disappear. You finish with a documented departure plan — every closure named, every decision made, every thing you are keeping chosen on purpose.
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Sample questions
- What are you taking with you from this chapter of your life — and is that a deliberate choice or a default?
- What are you leaving behind — and is any of it something you will want back?
- What does a clean break actually require from you that you have not yet done?
Research basis
Narrative therapy / grief research / ACT / transition theory (Bridges) / life design
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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