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Between the Worlds

by Sheila Collins | Sep 27, 2023 | Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Self-Care for Caregivers, Songs, Spirtuality, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Not only do we not “practice dying,” as Socrates advised his students, but most people in western culture know very little about the process of dying, and how to be with someone when that is what is transpiring. Of course, not all deaths can be accompanied, many...

When Great Trees Fall

by Sheila Collins | Nov 3, 2022 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Family, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

Last Friday shortly after noon eastern time, I got the news I was expecting, though no one ever can accurately predict the time of someone’s coming into this life or leaving it. I had lit a candle in my office a couple of days before when I heard that George was...

Art of Grieving – Love

by Sheila Collins | Jul 7, 2022 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Community, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, ReImagine, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

“What’s love got to do with it (grief)?” Tina Turner sang the answer to this question in this song from her 1984 album, “Private Dancer.” “Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?” It’s said that grief is the price we pay for love. Since we are destined to...

Crossing Over

by Sheila Collins | May 27, 2021 | Celebrations, Duality, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Personal Stories, Rituals, Self-Care for Caregivers, Songs, Spirtuality, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

Michael rowed the boat ashore, Alleluia, Sister helped to trim the sails Alleluia. Our living room has turned into the dying room. Friends linger after stopping by to bring flowers or drop off food. One tells me, “There’s so much love in this house. it’s hard to...

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, Rituals, Writing

People would often say to me, “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, children dying before their parents.” They said it when my thirty-one-year-old son, Kenneth, died of AIDS and again, seven years later, when my forty-two-year-old daughter, Corinne, died of breast...

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Between the Worlds

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