ThriveSpan: Companion Pieces
Walking Gently Into What Matters Now
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Available with ThriveSpan early-orders until midnight Saturday 13 June 2026.
After that, the collection may become available separately.
ThriveSpan Companion Pieces
These companion pieces emerged slowly alongside the writing of ThriveSpan.
They were not created as bonuses, exercises, or marketing extras. Each one developed through reflection, time spent at the wood, and living with the questions at the heart of the book itself.
Together, they offer different ways of entering the ideas more personally.
Not instructions to follow, but quieter invitations to pause, notice, and reflect.
Three Possible Later Lives
A short, narrated reflection you can also download and revisit.
Not a plan, but an invitation to hold more than one future at once, and to notice what each one asks of you.
Guided Reflection from the Wood
Recorded outdoors, in real time, with no studio overlay.
This isn’t something to complete or get right. It’s something to sit with.
A way of arriving where you are, and noticing what is beginning to shift.
The Life of a Tree
A quiet exploration of later life through the natural cycle of a tree.
Not as stages to move through, but as a landscape you may already be inhabiting in different ways.
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If you’re rethinking what later life might look like, I’d be delighted if you joined me on the journey.
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Advance praise
"Denise offers her readers a gentle companion to later life, and that's exactly what this book is. Nothing haranguing, no 'should's' or 'shouldn'ts', but instead three life pathways to consider and a heap of insightful questions. Usually I skip activities in books, but the questions stopped me in my path and I started writing out reflections. Her sentence, 'purpose is not a project' is already written on a post-it above my computer. Profundity on every page. This is a book to read, re-read and gift to others."
Dr Lucy Ryan, author of Revolting Women
Advance praise
“Denise Taylor’s ThriveSpan is a thoughtful guide to the deeper possibilities of longer lives. Moving beyond longevity hype, she explores how later life can become a time of reflection, connection and fulfilment. Wise, grounded and gently provocative, this book invites readers to stop striving and start truly thriving in the years ahead.”
Aviva Wittenberg-Cox, Host of 4-Quarter Lives podcast, writer of Elderberries Substack
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About Denise
Dr Denise Taylor is a Chartered Psychologist, award-winning career professional, and later-life researcher whose work explores identity, meaning, and life beyond midlife.
With over 25 years’ experience supporting career and life transitions, she has written across both traditional and independent publishing. Her books explore work, retirement, wellbeing, and the evolving possibilities of later life.
Her doctoral research focused on how people find meaning after full-time work, leading to the development of ThriveSpan, a reflective approach to later life that integrates wellbeing, purpose, and personal growth