An ecosystem of stories, grief rituals, and quiet revolutions.

A threshold for those becoming.

Reach Out

Welcome, Seekers and Sojourners

Grief is not the end. It is a beginning: raw, honest, alive.

This is a space for those who’ve lost something, or everything. For those who refuse to numb out or move on.
For those who want to turn their pain into purpose, art, or quiet revolution.

Here, we don’t fix grief. We compost it. We write it. We ritualize it. We honor it.

You’ll find stories, tools, dispatches, and offerings for navigating loss- personal, political, ecological, and ancestral.

This is where grief meets imagination, where you’re invited to change shape.

Welcome to Grief and Liberation. A portal for the ones who are still becoming.

Enter the ecosystem

Receive Monday Mournings, my weekly grief letter, a soft practice and ritual to begin your week grounded and alive.

Caverns of Grief is a field guide for the tender and the transforming—now available to be held.

Subscribe to The Underground Dispatch, speculative transmissions from the mycelial world.

Michelle Carrera next to Bea, cow living freely at VINE Sanctuary.

Meet the Spiritfarer

I’m Michelle Carrera, writer, grief worker, and spiritfarer. I work at the edges of death, memory, ecology, and transformation.

Rooted in Borikén, my work is shaped by lineage, rupture, and reverence for human and more-than-human life.

Through essays, obituaries, zines, and speculative grief fiction, I explore mourning as a force of reckoning and renewal.

I write altars. I write thresholds. I write to compost the unspeakable into language that liberates.

My primary portal is writing, shared freely. At times, I also hold a limited number of 1:1 grief companioning spaces.

ABOUT ME

Other Forms This Work Takes

At times, this work opens into other forms:
grief companioning, obituary writing, collaborative projects, workshops, and ritual objects. Availability shifts. Writing remains the constant.

INQUIRIES

Take the Next Step

There’s no right way to enter this work. If you’d like to stay close, you’re welcome to:

Subscribe to Monday Mournings, my weekly grief letter, a quiet companion and a gentle ritual to begin each week. You can also follow The Underground Dispatch, a speculative fiction series unfolding in grief transmissions from the mycelial world.

May this be a place where your grief is met. May you remember, you are both compost and bloom.