The Book Marketer Unveils New Product: A Practical Companion to Dr. Lidia Lae's Award-Winning Life Framing Methodology

Own Your Life Story Workbook: Map Your Cultural identity, Reframe Your Narrative, & Create Your Life of Joy, Meaning, & Legacy turns Dr. Lae's acclaimed Life Framing approach into a hands-on system for readers ready to consciously author their next chapter.

Melbourne, Australia - October 26, 2026-- Melbourne, Australia - October 27, 2026-- People everywhere are asking the same questions: Who am I now? Where do I belong? How do I move forward when the world around me keeps changing?

Lidia Lae

Those questions are playing out at scale. Fewer people say they feel able to bring their whole selves to work or to their own lives, following a widely reported rollback of workplace inclusion policies and a broader cultural shift researchers are calling a “re-negotiation of identity.” Psychologist and cultural identity expert Dr. Lidia Lae is expanding the reach of her Life Framing methodology with the release of a new practical companion, Own Your Life Story Workbook, on 27 October 2026.

Whether you're changing careers, rebuilding after loss, moving countries, stepping into leadership, retiring, or simply wondering, “Is this really the life I want?”, Life Framing provides a practical process for understanding where your story came from and consciously choosing what comes next. It takes you from where you are to where you want to be.

The workbook is the second tool in the Life Framing system, the identity and personal transformation methodology Dr. Lae introduced in her [award-winning] debut book, Own Your Life Story, which draws on her psychological research into how culture and personal narrative shape identity, belonging and self-worth. Where the first book introduced readers to Life Framing and its two signature tools, StoriCompass™ and CulturAlign™, the new guided workbook is designed to be worked through rather than simply read, walking readers step by step through applying the methodology to their own lives.

“Understanding your story is only the beginning,” said Dr. Lae. “Life Framing was never meant to be a concept people simply agree with and put down. It's a practice. This workbook exists because so many readers finished Own Your Life Story and asked the same question: now how do I actually do this? This is that answer.”

The workbook guides readers through the same evidence-informed Life Framing methodology that informs Dr. Lae's research, consulting and speaking, helping individuals and organisations understand how culture and lived experience shape the interpretive frames through which they understand themselves, their work and the stories they live by. Life Framing distinguishes itself from mainstream mindset and habit-focused personal development in what it treats as the first step: not simply becoming intentional about those frames, but first understanding how they were formed, through culture, family, community and lived experience. It's that awareness of an inherited frame that makes consciously reframing it possible. StoriCompass™ and CulturAlign™ are the proprietary tools that carry readers through this process. Through StoriCompass™, readers learn to identify and reframe the personal narratives they have inherited; through CulturAlign™, they map the cultural beliefs and expectations that quietly shaped those narratives in the first place. Together, the two tools form the practical backbone of the Life Framing process: understanding the story you were given, and consciously choosing the one you live from here.

Own Your Life Story has been endorsed by figures including Marci Shimoff (Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul, Happy for No Reason), Dr Kirsty Sword Gusmão AO, former First Lady of Timor-Leste, Dame Sylvia Morris DBE, and Professor Marie Yap OAM. The Workbook extends that same body of work into an interactive format for readers, coaches, leaders and professionals who want to apply Life Framing directly to their own lives and work.

The launch coincides with a series of live Life Framing events, including a speaking engagement in Toronto and a US book tour runing November 5 to 23, 2026, with stops planned in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Monterey. Dr. Lae is available for interviews on the psychology of identity and belonging, the cultural forces shaping personal reinvention, and the practical difference between reading about change and actively practising it.

Availability

Own Your Life Story Workbook: Map Your Cultural identity, Reframe Your Narrative, & Create Your Life of Joy, Meaning, & Legacy is available in paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon from 27 October 2026. The Kindle edition will be available at a limited-time launch price of $0.99 for the first seven days.

About Life Framing

Life Framing is an evidence-informed methodology developed by Dr. Lidia Lae for understanding how culture, family, community and lived experience shape the interpretive frames people inherit, and for consciously reshaping the personal narratives that follow from them, to serve identity, purpose and belonging. Built on the premise that culture and self co-construct one another, Life Framing uses two proprietary tools, StoriCompass™ and CulturAlign™, to help individuals and leaders move from an inherited, unexamined story to one they have consciously chosen. Life Framing is taught through Dr. Lae's books, speaking engagements, and coaching and consulting work.

About Dr. Lidia Lae

Dr. Lidia Lae is a psychologist, cultural identity expert, consultant and speaker whose research examines the intersection of culture, identity, belonging and life story, and how these shape the way people live, lead and create meaning. Drawing on her own Third Culture background and clinical experience, she works with individuals and organisations to build clarity, purpose and inclusive environments where people can show up as their full selves. She is the founder of To Learn Consulting and the developer of StoriCompass, as well as creator of the Life Framing process and CulturAlign™.

Own Your Life Story Workbook.