Still Living: Rewilding The Self After The Climb

What happens after the climb?

When the summit has been reached but the landscape of your life is now unrecognisable?

Still Living is a luminous and radically honest memoir 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. She writes from a trauma-aware and neurodivergent perspective.

Rooted in a nature-based and embodied lens, Still Living weaves together wisdom from both Eastern and Western traditions. It 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.

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.