Essays from the Underworld
Some things can only be seen from the depths. In grief, in illness, in the kind of burnout or loss that strips away the life you thought you were living.
Essays from the Underworld is a collection of reflections on the places we’re often taught to move through quickly, or not go at all. Grief, chronic illness, trauma, death, spirituality, fragility, belonging. The territories that don’t resolve neatly, and that our culture would rather we not linger in.
Across myth and folklore, the underworld is a place of descent, where old identities fall away and something truer, or at least more honest, tends to surface. These essays stay down there for a while. They’re interested in what opens up when we stop treating grief as a problem to solve and start actually listening to what it’s telling us.
This is writing for people who have found themselves in the depths. And for those who suspect there might be something worth understanding there, not just surviving but understanding.
The Grief of losing your soul dog
An Apprenticeship with Fragility