Publisher's Synopsis
What if grief isn't something to move on from, but something to move with?
Grief is not just the loss of a person-it is the loss of what was, what could have been, and what will never be. It is the unraveling of certainty, the ache of identity shifts, the silent mourning of relationships that no longer hold.
Breathe Becomes Air: The Wild Edge of Sorrow is a 21-day journey through loss, love, and the spaces in between-a companion for those carrying grief that does not fit neatly into words. This is not a book about getting over grief. It is about learning to live alongside it, to tend to it as you would something sacred, to let it shape you without swallowing you whole.
This book does not offer neat answers. It does not rush you toward healing. Instead, it offers a quiet hand on your back, a voice that says, This too is holy. This too is part of love.
Who is this book for?
For the griever who feels unseen. For the one who has lost not just a person, but a home, a faith, a certainty that once felt like bedrock. For the one whose grief lingers in the body, in the breath, in the quiet spaces no one else seems to notice.
✔ The grief of death. The empty chair at the table. The spaces they once filled.
✔ The grief of estrangement. Loving someone who is still here, but no longer close.
✔ The grief of identity loss. The version of yourself you can never return to.
✔ The grief of faith shifts. The longing for a spiritual home that no longer exists.
✔ The grief of the world's unraveling. The weight of collective sorrow and too much knowing.
✔ The grief of the unseen. The losses that are not spoken but still shape you.
If you have ever felt like your grief is too quiet, too complicated, too unspoken-this book was written for you.
How does this book hold grief?
Grief is not something to solve. It is something to be tended, carried, honored. This book offers a way to walk with sorrow that does not demand you leave it behind.
Each day, you will find:
✔ A reflection-gentle, unhurried words to name what aches.
✔ A somatic or spiritual practice-something simple, something grounding, something to remind you that you are still here.
✔ A poetic benediction-a quiet blessing, a hand on your shoulder, a reminder that even in sorrow, you are not alone.
This is not a book that tells you to "let go."
It is a book that holds space for what still lingers.
What makes this book different?
Most grief books tell you how to heal. This book tells you that you don't have to be healed to be whole.
✔ Short, reflective daily readings-for when your heart is too heavy for long chapters.
✔ Gentle, embodied practices-for when grief feels too much to carry in your mind alone.
✔ Language for the unspoken-for the griefs that do not come with funerals, the endings that no one else sees.
✔ A book to return to-because grief is not linear, and you deserve words that wait for you.
You don't have to do this alone.
Grief does not give us clear roads or well-lit paths. It comes like fog, like waves, like something both heavy and invisible. There is no map. But there are companions.
Let this book be one of them.
A quiet voice in the dark.
A lantern on the wild edge of sorrow.
A reminder that where there is breath, there is life.
