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The Layoff Recovery Workbook
The Identity That Left With the Badge
The layoff ended the job. It does not get to end you.
For the person who was laid off and needs to rebuild the sense of self the job was carrying — not the resume, but the identity that determines whether the next role is chosen from strength.
The Name It First Experience
Recovering from a layoff is not the same as finding the next role. Before the next role can be chosen well, you need to separate professional worth from the event. Your Layoff Recovery Agreement names what was built, what was lost, and what is worth rebuilding. It documents the identity that existed before the layoff and the commitments you carry forward so the next role is chosen from clarity.
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
- What do you want your next chapter to look like — not defensively, but what you want?
- What did the role give you that you valued — skills, relationships, purpose?
- What does this feel like right now — and how much of that feeling is about the job versus something deeper?
- What support do you need right now — and who has it?
Research basis
Price on involuntary job loss and identity recovery trajectories / Bridges on transition theory and incomplete endings / Savickas on career construction narrative / Kubler-Ross and Kessler on grief stages in professional loss / Maslach and Leiter on pre-layoff burnout / Seligman on post-adversity resilience
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