Publisher's Synopsis
This paperback edition is made to be held close-a companion for the quiet hours, the train ride, the bedside table, and the days you forget how to breathe.
What if grief wasn't something to survive-but something your body could learn to move through?
Back Into Delight is not a five-stage manual. It's not about closure. And it's not written from theory.
It's written from the middle of the night-by a father who lost his son, and a brother who lost his brother. Twice broken open, Paul O'Neill didn't find answers, but he did find signals. Breath. Movement. Laughter. Voice. These became the tools to unfreeze his system and return to life.
This book will show you:
- How grief hijacks the body-and how to get it back
- The signs of shutdown, and the steps to gently undo it
- How to use breath, tone, and humour as tools for recovery
- How to rewire painful memories using the body's own rhythms
- Why joy isn't spontaneous-it's trainable
Back Into Delight is not sentimental. It's kind. And it meets you where words often fail-with recognition, not instruction.
Whether your grief is fresh or frozen, you'll find something here that helps you move-not in theory, but in breath, stretch, and sensation.
Grief warps. But so does recovery. And it bends you-if you let it-back into delight.
