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Still Living: Rewilding The Self After The Climb
This is a book for anyone who has experienced a life altering rupture and is searching for a way to make sense of themselves and their life in the aftermath.
For those asking what happens after the metaphorical climb?
When the summit has been reached but the landscape of your life is now unrecognisable?
Packed full of reflections, wisdom and generous insights as well as practical exercises to support your own unique climb - it's a radically honest story of the mountains we never choose to climb and what it means to find our way home to ourselves in the aftermath.
Through the guiding metaphor of a mountain, Asta traces her intimate journey through 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 irrevocably changed and rearranged.
This is not a story about being ‘fixed’ or restored. It is a story about the slow cultivation of a new ecosystem of self in altered ground. A remembering that we carry within us the embodied intelligence to begin again - even in the harshest terrain.
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.
For those asking what happens after the metaphorical climb?
When the summit has been reached but the landscape of your life is now unrecognisable?
Packed full of reflections, wisdom and generous insights as well as practical exercises to support your own unique climb - it's a radically honest story of the mountains we never choose to climb and what it means to find our way home to ourselves in the aftermath.
Through the guiding metaphor of a mountain, Asta traces her intimate journey through 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 irrevocably changed and rearranged.
This is not a story about being ‘fixed’ or restored. It is a story about the slow cultivation of a new ecosystem of self in altered ground. A remembering that we carry within us the embodied intelligence to begin again - even in the harshest terrain.
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.
206 pages, Paperback
Published March 27, 2026
About the author
Catherine Asta
4 books7 followersCatherine is a psychotherapist and writer whose work brings a neurodivergent, compassionate and embodied perspective to questions of healing, loss and identity.
She weaves psychological insight with nature-rooted wisdom and somatic knowing. She is the host of ‘The Late Discovered Club’, the number one ranked podcast for late-identified autistic women, as well as the NHS-funded ‘Autism Central’ podcast.
Her bestselling book ‘Rediscovered’ is currently being translated internationally, with her memoir ‘Still Living’ published in April 2026.
A two-time breast cancer survivor, she lives on the edge of the moors in Ilkley, Yorkshire in the UK where the landscape inspires and informs her creative work.
She weaves psychological insight with nature-rooted wisdom and somatic knowing. She is the host of ‘The Late Discovered Club’, the number one ranked podcast for late-identified autistic women, as well as the NHS-funded ‘Autism Central’ podcast.
Her bestselling book ‘Rediscovered’ is currently being translated internationally, with her memoir ‘Still Living’ published in April 2026.
A two-time breast cancer survivor, she lives on the edge of the moors in Ilkley, Yorkshire in the UK where the landscape inspires and informs her creative work.
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April 4, 2026
Throughout this wonderful book it feels like the author is confiding in the reader, in an open, honest, intimate, authentic & vulnerable way.
This book is, on the face of it, about one person’s journey through breast cancer and then her continued journey of living with ME, but whether or not you’ve lived through these exact experiences or not, you feel seen & supported within these pages.
We all have metaphorical mountains we need to climb in life, mountains we don’t choose, that seem huge & scary. And we all know the experience of feeling totally lost after the climb, unable to get back to who we were before the climb, and often so exhausted that it’s hard to keep stumbling forward, into our uncertain ‘new normal’.
In Still Living, Catherine Asta holds our hand through all of this, with wise guidance, tender reflections and honest, generous insights into her own navigation of this universal challenge. She also provides practical exercises for the reader, to support our own unique journey.
Still Living is essential reading for anyone wondering how we heal from life’s excruciating blows, when we cannot get back to who we were, but instead must learn to accept who we are now, and grow from this place - forever changed by our experience.
Readers who are women, neurodivergent and mothers will feel particularly seen & tenderly held in Still Living, but all readers will gain so much from it I’m sure.
I devoured this book in a few days, and I highly recommend it!
This book is, on the face of it, about one person’s journey through breast cancer and then her continued journey of living with ME, but whether or not you’ve lived through these exact experiences or not, you feel seen & supported within these pages.
We all have metaphorical mountains we need to climb in life, mountains we don’t choose, that seem huge & scary. And we all know the experience of feeling totally lost after the climb, unable to get back to who we were before the climb, and often so exhausted that it’s hard to keep stumbling forward, into our uncertain ‘new normal’.
In Still Living, Catherine Asta holds our hand through all of this, with wise guidance, tender reflections and honest, generous insights into her own navigation of this universal challenge. She also provides practical exercises for the reader, to support our own unique journey.
Still Living is essential reading for anyone wondering how we heal from life’s excruciating blows, when we cannot get back to who we were, but instead must learn to accept who we are now, and grow from this place - forever changed by our experience.
Readers who are women, neurodivergent and mothers will feel particularly seen & tenderly held in Still Living, but all readers will gain so much from it I’m sure.
I devoured this book in a few days, and I highly recommend it!
May 4, 2026
Still Living is beautifully and honestly written, and it invites deep reflection. Having worked with Catherine while she was climbing her own mountain, reading this book took me straight back to that time. It hooked me immediately and pulled me in. I’ve come away feeling even more connected to her. I discovered parts of her story I never knew, and there were moments that stopped me in my tracks, moments that left me silent, reflective, and genuinely astonished.
When we worked together, Catherine didn’t simply show up. She was an essential part of creating a safe, grounded connection, a space where hundreds of people could grow, learn, and then go on to create the same for others. To hold that kind of space while climbing a mountain is something very few people could do, and now I understand the depth of what it cost her.
In Still Living, Catherine draws us into her world. It becomes a place of safety, learning, and truth. A space where we’re encouraged to listen to our bodies and trust what they’re telling us. She paints vivid images of nature, spirituality, and stillness that nurture self compassion and understanding. More than once, I found myself sitting beside her in that cabin, in silence, appreciating the now.
Catherine is a genuine and kind soul who has already touched the lives of thousands through her work. Still Living shows just how extraordinary she truly is and will go on to touch the lives of thousands more people.
When we worked together, Catherine didn’t simply show up. She was an essential part of creating a safe, grounded connection, a space where hundreds of people could grow, learn, and then go on to create the same for others. To hold that kind of space while climbing a mountain is something very few people could do, and now I understand the depth of what it cost her.
In Still Living, Catherine draws us into her world. It becomes a place of safety, learning, and truth. A space where we’re encouraged to listen to our bodies and trust what they’re telling us. She paints vivid images of nature, spirituality, and stillness that nurture self compassion and understanding. More than once, I found myself sitting beside her in that cabin, in silence, appreciating the now.
Catherine is a genuine and kind soul who has already touched the lives of thousands through her work. Still Living shows just how extraordinary she truly is and will go on to touch the lives of thousands more people.
April 12, 2026
Still Living is one of those books that meets you somewhere most writing doesn't reach. Catherine Asta writes about breast cancer, chronic illness and ME through a deeply embodied, nervous system-aware lens that felt immediately familiar to me as both a clinician and a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman. She doesn't pathologise her sensitivity or her body's responses. She honours them. The way she writes about somatic knowing, about the body signalling long before the mind catches up, is both clinically astute and profoundly human. For anyone who has spent a lifetime being told they feel too much, this book quietly and firmly says otherwise. It is not a recovery narrative. It is something 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.
April 17, 2026
If you are going through anything that has turned, or is currently turning, your life upside down, this book is for you.
Thank you, Catherine, for putting words to how I was feeling as I navigated the end of my marriage and moving to a new area.
It has often felt like no-one understood how I was feeling as I moved into this new stage of my life – but you do. Your book made me cry with relief at not being alone in my thoughts and experiences. It helped me feel connected and, above all, gave me hope, awe and wonder again.
Your book is heartfelt, warm and a balm to the soul.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and for writing this wonderful book.
I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Thank you, Catherine, for putting words to how I was feeling as I navigated the end of my marriage and moving to a new area.
It has often felt like no-one understood how I was feeling as I moved into this new stage of my life – but you do. Your book made me cry with relief at not being alone in my thoughts and experiences. It helped me feel connected and, above all, gave me hope, awe and wonder again.
Your book is heartfelt, warm and a balm to the soul.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and for writing this wonderful book.
I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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