Linda Burks, PhD

Cover Designer: Emerald Lake Books
Publisher: Emerald Lake Books
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945847-87-5
Book Description
When life changes, how will you navigate what comes next?
Every ending holds the seed of a beginning. Navigating Transitions is a trusted companion for the seasons when life shifts—sometimes suddenly, sometimes quietly—and invites you to reimagine who you are and why you’re here. Drawing on four decades of clinical practice, Linda Burks offers both wisdom and practical tools to help you navigate change with courage and grace.
Inside, you’ll discover:
- Proven tools for calming anxiety, cultivating inner steadiness, and clarifying what truly matters to you now.
- Encouragement to embrace change with confidence, curiosity and compassion.
- Practical ways to let go of what no longer serves you and welcome what’s next.
Whether you’re grieving a loss, facing a new beginning, or feeling the quiet pull toward something different, this book offers a steady hand and a hopeful perspective to help you navigate the future and find purpose.
What Others Are Saying
Navigating Transitions is an authoritative guide to unlocking the power of purpose by embracing life’s most difficult moments. Based on a lifetime of experience, it offers practical value and comfort for anyone facing the trials of transition.
—Richard Leider, international bestselling author of The Power of Purpose
Navigating Transitions is a compassionate, wise guide for inevitable transitions. We are not designed to go through life-altering changes alone, and Linda Burks is a thoughtful and supportive companion. This book is a testimony to human resilience and is grounded in Linda’s lived experiences of transitions. She is a steady hand during turbulent times.
—Mary NurrieStearns, psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and author of Healing Anxiety, Depression and Unworthiness
Recognizing that life’s greatest challenges are at points of transition, Dr. Linda Burks offers not only insightful, instructive narrative and storytelling in Navigating Transitions, but practical tools—self-reflective exercises and meditations—that can help us transform those difficult challenges into opportunities for fulfillment.
—Meredith Woodruff, founder, COPIA Coaching and Consulting
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