Links & Upcoming Events
Howl & Hold Grief Zine & Stickers NOW ON SALE
🖤 IT’S HERE 🖤
https://www.lorizaspel.com/shop
The very first issue of Howl & Hold: A Feral Grief Zine is officially live + for sale on my website — alongside a glorious pile of griefy, gritty, magical stickers.
This was a massive labor of love, featuring 30+ contributors sharing art, words, rituals, weird wisdoms, and soft spots for anyone trying to survive loss without losing themselves.
✨ Part survival guide
✨ Part scream into the void
✨ 100% not your grandma’s grief manual (unless she was a punk witch creature with a tarot deck and a social work degree)
Inside: poetry, prose, collage, photographs, grief rituals, prompts, and reminders that your pain belongs — and so do you. Cry on it. Write in it. Throw it across the room. It can take it.
32 full-color pages
Locally printed by Fireball Printing
Saddle-stitched like a dream
$19 — because grief deserves beautifully designed and printed things
Bundles of goodies available
🖤 Tap the link in bio to get your copy + support the next issue (because funding this one just came straight out of my pocket, let's be real)
🖤 Stickers also available, because sometimes you need to advertise what's going on with you on your car or laptop
Bound By Loss | August
Theme: Grief, Ritual, and Embodied Justice
📅 Circle Date: August 14
In August, we’re slowing down with Tending Grief — a soul-nourishing offering from Camille Sapara Barton that blends grief work, social justice, and somatic practice. This book feels like a balm: it doesn’t rush you. It offers gentle, grounded tools for making space for loss in the body, the collective, and the ancestral line.
If you’re seeking a more embodied relationship to your grief — one that doesn’t pathologize or fix, but tends and honors — this one’s for you.
🌀 Mini Practice: Create a grounding altar.
Gather a few meaningful, natural items — a stone, a feather, a leaf. Spend a minute each day connecting with one through your senses. Ask your grief: what do you need right now?
Register here: https://forms.gle/iMjzu1Uuec9LNg8C6
Singing Our Grief
Singing Our Grief is a communal gathering of music, ritual, and shared remembrance — an invitation to honor our losses through the healing power of voice and presence. Whether you're grieving a person, a relationship, a season of life, or the state of the world, come as you are. No singing experience needed — just a willingness to show up with your tender heart.
💛 Suggested donation: $15-25
🎶 Venmo: @Naila-Francis
All are welcome.
Bound By Loss | Renegade Grief
Bound By Loss is a thoughtfully facilitated book circle for those navigating loss who feel ready to engage with their grief through reading, reflection, and discussion. This circle will provide a supportive, non-pathologizing space to explore grief-related literature — offering insight, validation, and connection outside the structure of formal therapy and with a return to community in mind.
📖 Second Meeting: June 12th, 6–8 PM
📚 Our Book: Renegade Grief by Carla Fernandez
This group will meet via Google Meet. Auto-generated captions will be available, and I am open to discussing alternative accessibility options as needed. While cameras on is preferred (because we wanna see your beautiful face), no one will be required to do so. Please note that listening to audio books is reading in this group. Braille is reading in this group.
Participation is offered on a sliding scale of $10, $15, or $20 per session, payable via Venmo.
Links
Salt Trails Collective
An interdisciplinary group of healers, artists, ministers, and activists who are united by a shared commitment to honoring grief as a vital and sacred part of the human experience.
The Gloom Tribune
A tender, truth-telling newsletter exploring grief, longing, and the strange light that lives inside sorrow.
Death Reading Challenge
An invitation to explore mortality, meaning, and remembrance through books that illuminate our relationship to death and dying. From 2023.
Open Path Collective
Open Path is a nonprofit network connecting clients with therapists offering sessions at significantly reduced rates, typically between $40–70. It’s a great resource for finding quality, accessible care.
More Therapy Resources
Therapy for Black Girls – A space to find culturally competent mental health professionals for Black women and girls.
Therapy for Black Men – Therapist directory plus community-building and mental wellness content.
Latinx Therapy – Mental health resources and a directory of Latinx therapists.
Asian Mental Health Collective – Therapist directory and community support for Asian diaspora communities.
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) – A healing justice resource and network of QTBIPOC therapists.
Dead Funny Dead Serious Podcast
An insightful series of interviews with end-of-life doulas working in the US and abroad. Mitzi's four-question interviews usually run between 20-35 minutes.
Inclusive Therapists
My go-to directory for finding socially aware, culturally responsive care. It centers 2SLGBTQ+ folks, neurodivergent communities, and people of color, making it easier to connect with therapists who affirm and celebrate your full identity.
Additional Grief Resources
What’s Your Grief – A creative, practical grief resource hub.
The Dinner Party – Community for 20- and 30-somethings navigating life after loss.
Reimagine – Events and resources to explore grief, death, and end-of-life with creativity and community.
Healing in Community – Radical mental health tools and community-based resources for collective care.
Bookshop Affiliate Link
Browse and buy from the Bound by Loss reading list (as well as other books I love) via my Bookshop.org affiliate link—support independent bookstores while exploring books that speak to grief, memory, and meaning.
PolyFriendly Professionals
A directory of professionals who are knowledgeable about and affirming of polyamorous identities. It really does make a difference when your therapist understands the dynamics of consensual non-monogamy—without judgment or needing a crash course.
LGBTQIA+ Resources
Trans Lifeline – Peer support hotline run by and for trans people.
The Trevor Project – Crisis intervention and suicide prevention for queer youth.
QTPoC Mental Health — A community-run resource hub centering the mental health of queer & trans people of color.
FOR THE GWORLS — A grassroots org raising money for Black trans people to afford rent, gender-affirming surgeries, and travel for medical care.