Welcome to the TWL Book Gallery

Over the years, certain books have stayed with us; not just as ideas on a page, but as quiet companions during moments of change. Some helped us ask better questions. Others gave us language for things we had felt but couldn't yet name. We've gathered a few of them here: some we return to again and again, others we now recommend to clients as we work through sessions together.

They are not required reading — more like signposts, offered in case they're useful on your own path.

And if there's a book that has shaped your path - one that found you at the right moment, or asked something of you that you needed asking - we'd love to hear about it. Send us a title, and who knows, it might just find its way onto this list

  • TWL Book Gallery: What Color is Your Parachute?

    What Color is Your Parachute? (Workbook) by Richard N. Bolles

    A practical, hands-on companion for anyone navigating a career or life transition — useful for working through real questions, not just reading about them. This is recommended material for the Life Navigator mentoring program.

  • The TWL Book Gallery: tuesdays with Morrie

    Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

    A tender reminder of what truly matters when we slow down enough to ask.

  • The TWL Book Gallery: Storyworthy

    Storyworthy by Mattew Dicks

    A book about finding the meaning in our everyday moments and learning to tell our own story with honesty and heart.


    This can be a useful companion if you want to write blog posts or other social media material about meaningful events as part of marketing your business.

  • The TWL Book Gallery: Keep Moving

    Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

    Short, daily reflections on resilience and reinvention, written during one of the author's hardest seasons. A gentle companion for anyone in transition.
    Sylvia uses this as daily source of inspiration.

  • The TWL Book Gallery: Der Junge, der auf einem Esel ritt

    Der Junge, der auf einem Esel ritt, by Nestor T. Kollee

    A tender story about a young man who, after losing his father, sets out on a journey that becomes far more inward than it first appears.

    What stayed with us most is its quiet insistence on living a purposeful life, and on paying attention to our dreams, even the ones we've long stopped listening to.

  • The TWL Book Gallery: The Big Five For Life

    The Big Five For Life by John Strelecky

    Some books give you tools. This one gives you a lens.

    The Big Five for Life is a story, not a manual. And that distinction matters. Because the insights it carries arrive the way the best insights always do: quietly, through the back door, while you are simply following a narrative you cannot put down.

    At the heart of it is a question that will feel immediately familiar to anyone on a TidewiseLife journey: what does a life well lived actually look like - for you, on your own terms, by your own definition?

  • The TWL Book Gallery: Orbital

    Orbital by Samantha Harvey

    A wonderful book grounded in many scientific facts reminding us about the precious planet we live on.
    It is a quiet, meditative read that reminds us how small shifts in perspective can change everything.