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Grieving for a Country

by Sheila Collins | Jan 25, 2025 | Book Excerpts, book promotion, Community, Dances, Environment, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Improvisation, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

About a decade ago, I expanded my view of loss and what situations need grieving. I had written a book, Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals that Heal that illustrated the grieving of personal and familial situations of loss and touched on the...

Grieving Devastation

by Sheila Collins | Jan 16, 2025 | Art & Life, Community, Environment, Good Will Come, Grieving, Resilience, Science, Technology and the Environment, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

We’ve seen it on our screens for days now, the devastation of entire neighborhoods; schools, places of worship, shops, restaurants, and landmarks, all through the eyes of photojournalists whose job it is to communicate and record what’s happening in our larger world....

Transitions

by Sheila Collins | Jan 3, 2025 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Our Children, Personal Stories, Science, Technology and the Environment, Self-Care

Here we are in the time of our yearly transition–looking back and remembering the past year. We’re saying good-bye to the old year, (the bearded man stooped over his cane) and while at the same time, greeting and looking ahead into this new year, (the diapered baby...

The Gifts of Remembering

by Sheila Collins | Dec 19, 2024 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Dances, Family, Gatherings, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Science, Technology and the Environment, Story-telling, Women, Girls & the Feminine

One of the cruelest outcomes of the “put it all behind you” and “move on with your life,” philosophy of managing loss is that we miss out on the gifts and life lessons that come through remembering. In a couple of recent events, I have been reminded of some of those...

Grief, Money and Dirty Pain

by Sheila Collins | Dec 12, 2024 | Duality, Environment, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, History, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, Story-telling, the Big Body

To become resilient and grow from what happens to us, we must choose to face and metabolize the pain of loss. That’s what the art of grieving is. Psychotherapist Resmaa Menakem describes “clean pain’ as that which is faced and transformed while “Dirty Pain” is pain...

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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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Grieving for a Country

Grieving Devastation

Transitions

The Gifts of Remembering

Grief, Money and Dirty Pain

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