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How Art Helps Us Grieve

by Sheila Collins | Jul 21, 2022 | Duality, Environment, Family, Grieving, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, The Art of Grieving

“Will this ever be over?” It’s a question we ask ourselves, each other, and the universe, when challenges and unpleasant situations persist, way beyond our patience to deal with them. In recent weeks, two different friends, in different parts of the country traveled...

Revisiting The Power of Anniversaries

by Sheila Collins | Oct 30, 2019 | Art & Life, Good Will Come, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Self-Care for Caregivers, social justice, Spirtuality, The Art of Grieving

When I awoke last Sunday morning I knew it was the day – the one year anniversary of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in my hometown of Pittsburgh PA. Eleven people lost their lives and several others were seriously injured in the worst...

Anniversaries

by Sheila Collins | Aug 22, 2019 | Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Self-Care, social justice, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Four friends and I were headed back to Pittsburgh from the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, an 11-hour car trip. We were full of stories to share from our four days at the leaders’ retreat of our national InterPlay organization. Since this day was also the...

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...

Children & the Stories Elders Tell

by Sheila Collins | Apr 1, 2013 | Art & Life, Story-telling

“That happened in the olden days,” my children would tell me. Their dismissive tone indicated they didn’t see any relevance to what I was relaying about the past and what they were experiencing in the present. I, on the other hand, have always been curious about “the...

How Art Helps Us Grieve

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

Children & the Stories Elders Tell

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Loss is inevitable, yet too often we bury our grief, pretending we're OK when we're not.

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