About Wise Mortal
Wise Mortal is a somatic coaching and death awareness practice. It exists for people who want to live with more intention, clarity, and discernment — and who are ready to use the fact of their mortality to get there.
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Short Bio
Michelle A M Miller is a somatic coach, Death Doula, and interdisciplinary artist whose work uses death awareness as a lens for living more deliberately.
Full Bio
Michelle A M Miller is a somatic coach, Death Doula, and interdisciplinary artist. INELDA-trained and currently completing certification in Mind-Body Coaching, her work uses death awareness as a lens for living more deliberately.
The daughter of an Indigenous immigrant mother and a white American father, she grew up between worlds — an environmental testing laboratory, long hours in the landscape, and in art studios that nurtured two enduring instincts: a curiosity about what can be observed and measured, and a reverence for all that cannot.
In 2021, four members of her family died, including her father. That season of loss deepened a question she has returned to ever since: what changes when we remember we will die? Her practice, Wise Mortal, offers somatic coaching and reflective experiences rooted in death awareness — not to prepare people for dying, but to help them stop postponing the life they want to live.
She facilitates community Death Cafés and is creator of The Obituary, a guided reflective writing experience. Her artist books are held in 20 public collections including Harvard University.
About The Obituary
The Obituary is a guided reflective writing experience that uses mortality as a lens. Participants move through a scaffolded process of reflection and mindfulness meditation, ultimately drafting their own obituary — not as a final statement, but as a clarifying one.
About Death Café
Death Café is a facilitated group conversation where people gather to talk openly about death and mortality — no agenda, no therapy, no belief system. Michelle hosts Death Cafés bimonthly in South Florida.
Topics
Michelle is available for interviews, essays, and speaking on:
Death awareness as a tool for deliberate living
The cultural silence around mortality and what it costs us
Somatic coaching and embodied attention
Reflective writing and the examined life
Community conversation and the Death Café model
Media Sheet
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