Not Done Yet: The Journey Back to You

She was the capable one. The steady one. The woman who kept going.Until her body stopped her.Two emergency surgeries in three weeks. A quiet warning that she might never walk the same way again. And just like that, the carefully held life of Ingrid Bayer cracked wide open.What followed was not the tidy comeback story she expected. It was something harder, and far more honest. The slow, unglamorous work of finding her way back to herself.Not Done Yet moves between a hospital bed and a whole life lived before it. The marriages. The businesses. The long, quiet years of mistaking endurance for strength. And it sits with the question so many women reach without warning, and with no map to follow: what now?This is not a story about decline. It is a story about the reveal. About grey hair, scars and second acts. About the strange freedom of choosing, at last, how you want your days to feel rather than how they should look.If something in your life is cracking, do not panic. Pay attention.It may not be breaking you. It may be rebuilding you.You are not behind. You are not finished. You are not done yet.Not Done Yet - The Journey Back to You is part memoir, part map, and part rallying cry. Through her own story, and the collective stories of the thousands of women she has mentored, Ingrid offers a powerful reminder that midlife is not an ending. It is the invitation. The turning point. The moment we stop shrinking and start rising.Today, Ingrid writes, mentors and speaks to women across the world, helping them reinvent their lives, rediscover their voice and build futures that feel rich, honest and deeply aligned.She lives in regional New South Wales with her husband Karl, surrounded by children and grandchildren, where she is quietly proving that the second half of life is where the magic really begins.

Pages: 146, Paperback, Independently published