BECOMING SOLO

AUTHOR: Julie Stafford

PUBLISHER: Julie Stafford Publishing (JSP)

in PAPERBACK and EBOOK

AVAILABLE @Amazon globally and @Online Bookstores

 

 

Australia’s Bestselling Cookbook Author Shares the Remarkable Story She Never Expected to Write

 

After selling more than 2.3 million healthy-eating cookbooks, Julie Stafford’s greatest story began with devastating loss—and a one-way ticket to rebuild her life.

 

For decades, Australian readers knew Julie Stafford as one of the country’s most successful cookbook authors. With more than 2.3 million books sold and over 1,500 presentations delivered across Australia, her career inspired people to gather around the table and eat healthily. Through the 80s and 90s, her books changed a generation’s eating habits.

 

Then her life changed forever.

 

When Julie’s husband, Bruce, died from mesothelioma (terminal asbestos cancer) after a thirty-year love story, and beating another cancer (Hodgkins Lymphoma) just two-and-a-half years into their love story, Julie was left asking the question: Who am I now without the man I’ve adored for thirty years, always by my side?

 

Rather than accepting a smaller life, Julie made a courageous decision. She packed a suitcase and began travelling alone to Dubrovnik, Paris, Morocco, and the sacred city of Varanasi in India—not to escape her grief, but to discover whether it was possible to build a meaningful life beyond it.

 

That extraordinary journey became Becoming Solo, a memoir that resonates with readers who have experienced grief, major life changes, or have simply wondered whether it is ever too late to begin again.

 

Julie believes grief isn’t limited to the loss of someone we love. Australians also grieve the end of marriages, careers, retirement, declining health, financial security, changing identities and the future they once imagined. Her message is simple but powerful: while loss changes us, it doesn’t have to define the rest of our lives.

 

With warmth, honesty and humour, Julie shares the unexpected lessons she found while learning to sit at a table for one, navigating unfamiliar countries on her own, and discovering that the greatest journey wasn’t around the world—it was the one to know yourself more fully.

 

 

INTERVIEW TOPICS

• Building a new life after the death of a lifelong partner

• Rebuilding confidence after grief

• Why solo travel became a pathway to healing

• The unexpected lessons of Dubrovnik, Paris, Morocco and the synchronistic events that led me to Varanasi and what I learned there about how to truly let go of someone you love

• Why grief is about more than losing someone we love

• Reinvention after retirement, divorce or major life change

• Solo travel has become one of the fastest-growing movements in travel. Women now account for approximately 84% of all solo travellers worldwide.

• Why it is never too late to begin again

 

 

 

ABOUT JULIE STAFFORD

Julie Stafford is one of Australia’s bestselling authors, with more than 2.3 million books sold. She has inspired audiences through more than 1,500 presentations across Australia. Today, she is the author of Becoming Solo, an uplifting memoir of love, loss, courage and reinvention that encourages readers to believe their next chapter may be their most meaningful.

 

 

 

MEDIA CONTACT

Julie Stafford

+61413045572

EMAIL: juliestaffordloveslife@gmail.com

WEBSITE: www.juliestafford.com.au

INSTAGRAM: juliestaffordtravels

 

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