ThriveSpan: Companion Pieces
Walking Gently Into What Matters Now
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 work 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.
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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.
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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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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
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