Ali Heathfield

Ali Heathfield is the author of the Not Done Yet series. Her book, Not Done Yet: Life After 60, is for anyone navigating life after 60 who wants to live it well. It's a practical guide built around the Living Life Well model, ten themes that together cover every meaningful area of life, from purpose and relationships to health, finance, environment, and more. The organising idea is simple: living with intention rather than by default.

After losing her partner of more than 40 years two days after her 65th birthday, Ali faced a choice: let life happen to her, or live deliberately. She chose intention. That decision took her through grief and reinvention, back into education, and eventually to a new life in Portugal, a country whose language she is still cheerfully learning.

Alongside that personal journey, Ali completed an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology, bringing academic rigour to the questions she was already living: what does it take to thrive in later life, and what does a good life actually look like after 60?

Ali works with individuals navigating retirement, loss, health change, and reinvention, and writes for a growing community through her Living Life Well Substack. She lives in Portugal and is, by her own account, not done yet.