Still Living: Rewilding The Self After The Climb

What happens after the metaphorical climb - when you have survived, but cannot return to the person, body or life you were before? Still Living is a luminous and radically honest memoir about the part we don’t talk about enough: what happens after a life-altering experience, when the immediate crisis may be over but you - and the landscape of your life - have been irrevocably changed and rearranged. Through the guiding metaphor of a mountain, Catherine traces her intimate journey through breast cancer, chronic illness, ME and identity rupture from a trauma-aware and neurodivergent perspective. But this is not a conventional recovery narrative. There is no triumphant return to the person she was before - and no promise that the right mindset, practice or healing will restore what has been lost. Instead, Still Living asks a different question: How do we make a life in the place we find ourselves now? Moving between the physical and spiritual, psychological and embodied, and rooted in a nature-based lens, Catherine weaves together wisdom from Eastern and Western traditions. What emerges is a different way of understanding healing: not as fixing, restoring or returning, but as the slow cultivation of a new ecosystem of self in altered ground. A rewilding of the self. Part memoir and part companion for the places we land after the climb, Still Living offers reflections, gentle practices and redefining language for anyone living through illness, trauma, disability, grief, loss or another life-altering rupture. For anyone who has found themselves utterly lost, and wondering: Who am I now? Tender, wise and deeply compassionate, Still Living offers strength, solace and a new language for life beyond survival. An invitation to rewild the self not by returning to who we once were, but by honouring who we are still becoming. And a remembering that we carry within us the embodied intelligence to begin again - even in the harshest of terrain. 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 "Catherine shares, in a revealing and inspiring way, her journey of personal change and growth. She calmly and gently weaves together the wisdom of the East and West in a way that is relatable and insightful. Still Living offers much needed signposts for those who are finding their path in the midst of our demanding modern world.”~Jillian Lavender, Author + Co-Founder London and New York Meditation Centre. “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. 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. 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 “This is a book that contains many soul-stirring gifts for all readers." ~ Dr Jenny Turner, Clinical Psychologist