Shifting Seasons EBook

Every life moves through seasons. Some are golden and expansive. Others are cold, quiet, and disorienting. Shifting Seasons is a guide for the moments in between—the transitions, upheavals, and quiet unravellings that ask us to become someone new.

Written by clinical hypnotherapist, NLP trainer, and transformation coach Alysia May, this is a personal growth and self-help book for women navigating midlife change, burnout, grief, identity shifts, and the search for meaning. Whether you're facing a divorce, a career reinvention, an empty nest, a health crisis, or simply the unsettled feeling that life is asking more of you than it once did, Shifting Seasons offers a way to understand where you are—and a clear path forward.

Drawing on more than twenty years of clinical and coaching experience across hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), breathwork, Reiki, and life coaching, Alysia blends evidence-informed psychological tools with ancient wisdom traditions, astrology, and the insights of her own life. The result is a practical framework for emotional resilience, self-discovery, and personal transformation—grounded enough for the sceptic, deep enough for the seeker.

At the heart of the book is Alysia's signature Four Wonders Framework, developed from her travels to more than thirty countries, including transformative pilgrimages to the Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, the Colosseum, and the Taj Mahal. Each Wonder becomes a metaphor and a method—a lens for understanding endurance, descent, power, and devotion as they show up in ordinary human lives. This isn't travel writing dressed up as self-help; it's a lived, tested model for moving through change with intention rather than fear.

Shifting Seasons is structured in three parts:

Part One: Understanding Your Seasons — Why change feels the way it does, the psychology and physiology of transition, and how to recognise which season you're really in (even when it doesn't look the way you expected).

Part Two: Navigating Your Seasons — Tools, frameworks, and practices—drawn from clinical hypnotherapy, NLP, breathwork, and ancient wisdom systems—for moving through difficulty without losing yourself.

Part Three: Your Season of Emergence — How to integrate what you've learned, rebuild identity after upheaval, and step into the next chapter with clarity and purpose.

Woven throughout are Alysia's own stories: her experience as a Child of a Deaf Adult (CODA), her relationship with her late father—who shared her clinical interests and introduced her to astrology and ancient wisdom—and the quiet, ordinary seasons of marriage and motherhood that taught her as much as any client ever has.

This is a book for the eldest daughters, the caretakers, the high-functioning women who are exhausted from holding everything together. It's for anyone who has ever felt like they were grieving a version of themselves they didn't know they'd have to let go of. It's for women aged 35 to 55 standing at a threshold, wondering if it's too late to change—and discovering it's exactly the right time.

Part memoir, part practical guide, part invitation to something deeper, Shifting Seasons will resonate with readers of Glennon Doyle, Brené Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Louise Hay, while offering its own distinct voice: clinically grounded, spiritually curious, and unafraid of the dark seasons as much as the bright ones.

Your season is changing. This book will help you meet it.