Your Morbid Friends is a partnership between an LCSW and an Ecopsychologist, both experienced psychonauts who are passionate about death literacy and changing the death industry.
Robin and Cassandra met as co-workers at a psychiatric private practice in NYC, but first got to know each other at a psychedelics conference. On a lunch break, they discovered they had a mutual desire to create supportive spaces for grief. Recognizing the kindred spirit, they continued to talk and brainstorm how to spread The Gospel of Death Is Not So Scary and put a few events on the calendar and four months later, Your Morbid Friends was born.
By developing partnerships with nonprofits and community spaces, YMF has been offering events for different groups including LGBTQ+ elders and curious New Yorkers, touching on many of the different sizes and shapes of grief along the way. Though still a young company, participants frequently cite their gratitude for the much-needed space. Your Morbid Friends are excited to continue co-creating these spaces as well as developing more offerings in the future.
Cassandra Biron (she/they) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and INELDA trained Death Doula with a focus on integrative mental health, culinary medicine, and mind-body understanding. She also volunteers at the end-of-life unit at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Cassandra’s work is rooted in healing justice and turning ancestral wounds into ancestral gifts. She has worked with 2SLGBTQIA+ communities for over a decade and believes that creation of joy is a radical political act.
Robin Silver (she/her) began studying mindfulness at a 3-day retreat in July 2011 at Guang Jue Monastery in Zaoxi, China, and has been exploring meditation and other healing modalities ever since. She has an MA in Ecopsychology and mindfulness instructor certification from Naropa University. She also studied Thai Massage and tok sen at the Thai Massage School and Wat Pan Whaen in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Robin’s work comes from the belief that we must tend to our psychological, emotional, spiritual, and ecological bodies as much as our physical body. She is informed by her formal education, 5 years work experience in the mental health space, and an eclectic breadth of trainings and retreats undertaken around the US, Mexico, and Asia.