Still Living: Rewilding The Self After The Climb

"I am in love with this book...get ready for a life changing read." Dr Emma Offord"Full of soul stirring gifts for all readers." Dr Jenny TurnerWhat happens after the metaphorical climb?When the summit has been reached but the landscape of your life is now unrecognisable?When a diagnosis, trauma, loss or life-altering event has changed everything - how do you make sense of yourself and your life in the aftermath?Still Living is a radically honest story of the mountains we never choose to climb and what it means to find our way home to ourselves when life has been irrevocably changed.Through the guiding metaphor of a mountain, Asta traces her intimate journey of breast cancer, chronic illness, ME and identity rupture - from a trauma-aware and neurodivergent perspective. Rooted in a nature-based and embodied lens, Still Living explores what healing can look like when life has been fundamentally rearranged.This is not a story about being fixed, restored, bouncing back or returning to who you once were.It is a story about learning to live in altered terrain.About the slow cultivation of a new ecosystem of self in changed ground.A remembering that we carry within us the embodied intelligence to begin again - even in life's harshest landscapes.Deeply compassionate, Still Living offers strength, solace and a new language for life beyond survival. It is an invitation to rewild the self - not by returning to who we once were, but by honouring who we are still becoming.Inside you'll find:Reflections on navigating illness, trauma and life-altering change.Insights into embodiment, neurodivergence, identity and self-trust.Practical exercises and prompts to support your own unique climb.A compassionate alternative to traditional recovery narratives.Wisdom and companionship.What people are saying about the book:"Reading this book felt like entering a profound and intimate portal into the landscape of Catherine’s soul. It's a raw insight into living with cancer and chronic illness - in the context of neurodivergence and motherhood.”~Dr Becky Quicke, Clinical Psychologist “I'm in love with this book. Still Living offers a deeply embodied and uncompromisingly honest account of what it means to continue after life has fundamentally changed. This is not a story of recovery in the traditional sense, but of reorientation, of learning to live inside a body and a life that no longer follow familiar rules. Get ready for a life changing read.”~ Dr Emma Offord, Clinical Psychologist “Still Living is one of those books that meets you somewhere most writing doesn’t reach. The way she writes about somatic knowing, about the body signalling long before the mind catches up, is both clinically astute and profoundly human. It's not a recovery narrative. It's something much rarer: an honest account of what it means to land somewhere entirely new after a life-altering climb and to begin learning how to live there.“ ~ Alice Bramhill, Psychotherapist & Author“We can all see ourselves in the pages of this book,because it's a near-universal experience, to have experienced life-changing events - so impactful - that we could never go back to who we were, and how we lived, before. Within Still Living, we find the guidance we need to move forward to our new normal, while we gather and integrate our full humanity along the way. This is a book that contains many soul-stirring gifts for all readers." ~ Dr Jenny Turner, Clinical Psychologist Read more