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Dr Denise Taylor

2 November 2025

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Summer of Shifts

A Companion to Stepping Back Without Losing Yourself

Some seasons change everything.

Summer of Shifts traces one of mine: a summer of endings, rediscovery, and renewal.

📘 Free to download; this companion guide offers a glimpse into the lived experience behind Stepping Back Without Losing Yourself, exploring what it really feels like to move through change with honesty and grace.

What began with heartbreak and exhaustion became a season of reorientation: festivals, woodland solitude, the end of a long relationship, and the quiet emergence of a gentler way of living. Through grief and recalibration, I began to understand what it truly means to step back without losing yourself.

This companion guide to Stepping Back Without Losing Yourself offers a window into that lived experience, how personal change actually feels as it unfolds day by day, and how reflection, nature, and rhythm help us re-ground after loss or transition.

Across its pages you’ll find:

  • Honest writing from a turning point year
  • Reflections on work, love, and identity in later life
  • Glimpses of woodland stillness, music, and meaning
  • Gentle insights on holding space for change

Summer of Shifts is for anyone navigating emotional or practical transitions, a relationship ending, a change of direction, or a deep call to realign.

It’s not a self-help manual, but a companion for reflection, a reminder that endings can also be beginnings, and that we can move through loss toward a quieter form of wisdom.

👉 Get your copy of Summer of Shifts

and allow your own season of change to unfold at its natural pace.

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