An ecosystem of grief, death, storytelling, and collective care.
A place to be held, to write, to remember, and to return.

Welcome, Seekers and Sojourners

You’ve arrived in a grief ecosystem. One made of stories, field guides, rituals, obituaries, and offerings. A place for the grieving, the dying, and those walking beside them. A place to be held. To write. To remember. To find language for what hurts, and space for what still wants to bloom.

Here, grief isn’t fixed or solved, it’s composted. Honored. Told. Through companioning, creative offerings, and collective care, we explore what death reveals, what grief transforms, and how liberation can begin even in the darkest soil.

Whether you're mourning a beloved, shedding a former self, facing your own death, or returning to memory for meaning, you belong here.

May this space be a balm. May it remind you that grief is not the end of the story. That even in the ashes, there is movement. That you are never walking alone.

a spirit farer for collective liberation…

I’m Michelle Carrera, a death doula, grief companion, writer, and ordained Interfaith Animal Chaplain. My work is rooted in the ancestral soil of Borikén and carried out here, along the Walkill River watershed, on the unceded lands of the Lenape-Munsee people. Everything I offer is shaped by this lineage, by the waters and stories that hold me, and by a deep reverence for life in all its forms.

As a queer person walking multiple thresholds, I hold space with tenderness for complexity, for the in-between, the unseen, and the unspoken. I offer companionship in many forms: through story, through ritual, through direct support, and through words shaped by grief. Whether I’m writing obituaries, tending the dying, or imagining new ways to mourn together, my commitment is the same: to show up with care, with curiosity, and with reverence.

Ways We Can Work Together

  • For those navigating fresh loss or approaching death. This is space-holding, not fixing. A quiet presence. A grief-literate hand to hold. Read more.

  • I write bespoke obituaries, for your loved ones, ancestors, other species, or selves. For remembering. For ritual. For release. Read more.

  • I partner with individuals, collectives, and organizations to co-create grief-centered projects, rituals, or events. From writing to teaching to public mourning. Read more.

  • I facilitate spaces around grief, memory, and collective care. For schools, mutual aid groups, spiritual communities, and movement spaces. Read more.

  • Zines, field guides, grief tea, and transmissions from the underground. Tangible companions for your process.

  • I write about grief, death, memory, collapse, and collective liberation through essay, fiction, and ritual text. If you’d like to commission a piece for your publication, blog, newsletter, or collective, I’d love to talk. My writing is shaped by lived grief, justice work, and years of companioning the dying and the remembering.

Take the Next Step

As you wander through this space, I invite you to linger. Let the obituaries, reflections, zines, and offerings meet you wherever you are. There’s no right way to grieve here. No pressure to transform. Just room to be.

If you feel the pull to stay close, you’re warmly invited to receive Monday Mournings, a weekly grief letter sent every Monday. It’s a quiet companion. A gentle ritual. A way to be held, even in small doses. You can also subscribe to The Underground Dispatch, my speculative grief fiction series unfolding in transmissions from the mycelial world.

And if something here stirs something deeper , if you're grieving, dying, remembering, or imagining something through loss, I’m here as a witness and a fellow traveler. Reach out when you're ready, and we’ll begin from wherever you are.

You are not alone. I see you.
Let’s keep tending to this sacred, strange work of grief, death, and becoming, side by side.