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Singing To Convince Yourself

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2010 | Grieving, Songs

There are many principles we would like to believe, many truths we would like to embody. And as lovers of African American spirituals, known as Sorrow Songs, can attest, the capacity of singing to facilitate change in one’s emotional state is enormous. And as in the...

A Dance on Behalf of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2010 | Dances, Grieving

“Grief takes your chi,” my acupuncturist told me after I returned from the funeral of my daughter. So always in times of grief, the dance of rest and stillness is important. But if you have gotten some rest and still feel that everything seems a physical effort, you...

Caregiving is a Hazardous Occupation

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2010 | Personal Stories, Self-Care for Caregivers

As a professor of social work, and director of the Social Work in Health Care curriculum, I saw an area where we were not preparing our students for the work they were beginning to do. As my students, most of them women, went into their field placements, they seemed...

A Song for Self-Care

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2010 | Self-Care for Caregivers, Songs

Using a creative arts system called InterPlay, which includes dancing, storytelling, singing, and stillness, I’ve discovered that if speaking our truth is important, singing it can be an even more powerful self-caring vehicle. As Bernice Johnson Reagon, one of the...

A Self-Caring Meditation

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2010 | Meditations, Self-Care for Caregivers

Harmony A number of years ago, when I was in the process of writing a book about our most important responsibility, that of taking care of ourselves, I visited an art gallery in Texas. My best friend Rose had been there ahead of me, and she was most enthusiastic...

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Singing To Convince Yourself

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