Finding Your Bearings

By Charles Whitaker

You did everything you were supposed to do. Built the career. Raised the family. Carried the responsibilities. Showed up, year after year, with a reliability that everyone around you came to take for granted.

And then something shifted. Not a crisis. Not a collapse. Just a quiet awareness that the life you built no longer quite fits the man you have become.

Finding Your Bearings is a companion for that moment. It does not offer a programme, a system or a set of steps. It walks beside you as you begin to see your life more clearly, name things you may have carried in silence, and ask the question that sits at the heart of everything:

Are you living the life you chose? Or the life that was chosen for you?

"The work doesn't begin when we understand the discomfort, it begins when we stop needing to."

- Scott, early reader

"A great comfort for those approaching a new act without recognising it's not necessarily a continuation."

- Ben, early reader

Charles Whitaker spent years at senior levels in manufacturing before retraining across coaching, clinical hypnotherapy, the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, shamanic practice and depth psychology. He holds a PhD in applied science. He now works with men who have lost their bearings, helping them see themselves more clearly so they can live more honestly. He is the author of The Inner Life of

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835309089
• ISBN13: 9781835309087
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: APS Books
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"