Workbook
The Expat Identity Workbook
Who Are You When Nobody Knows Your Name
This workbook builds an expatriate identity grounded in what is true about you — not where you are known.
For the person who has relocated internationally and is navigating the identity crisis of being unknown — no professional reputation, no social context, no cultural shorthand. For the person who was someone at home and is no one here.
The Name It First Experience
Reinvention built on nothing is a performance — this workbook builds identity on what is actually true. The Expat Identity Workbook walks you through who you are when no one knows your name: the values, skills, relationships, and ways of being that are yours regardless of professional reputation, social context, or cultural shorthand — and helps you build from those outward into the new place. It is for the person who relocated internationally and is navigating the disorientation of being unknown — who was someone at home and is learning that that person did not travel as cleanly as the luggage. You finish with a documented expatriate identity — what is true about you regardless of location, and how to build from it here.
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Sample questions
- Who were you before you arrived here — and how much of that identity depends on people who already knew you?
- What has been most disorienting about being unknown in this place?
- What makes you happy here that is genuinely yours — not a comparison to before?
Research basis
Berry acculturation model / Erikson identity development / narrative therapy / cross-cultural psychology / existential psychology
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