Book Excerpts | Sheila Collins

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...

The Arts and Collective Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Nov 14, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Gatherings, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body

Collective grief is stimulated by large scale losses and tragedies, some impacting people and communities far from the initial ground zero of the event. I began putting together the material for my current book during the lock down phase of COVID when most everyone’s...

The Impact of an Art Image on the Art of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Oct 17, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Community, Grieving, Publications, The Art of Grieving, Writing

Most communication, especially for teachers and writers involves finding the right words. As a therapist whose first profession was as a dancer, I often use expressive arts to help people connect with the creative side of themselves and to help process the experiences...

Help Resolve the Grief of Releasing Creative Projects

by Sheila Collins | Oct 10, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Community, Duality, Publications, Writing

If your work is in a so called, “creative field” you may already be familiar with the type of loss that I am focusing on today. For writers, performance artists, designers of various types that engage in projects requiring intense dedication and a considerable length...

Transforming Grief and Rage into Courage and Action

by Sheila Collins | Sep 12, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Publications, Resilience, Rituals, social justice

It’s been 23 years since four Islamist terrorists, members of al-Qaeda, engaged in coordinated suicide attacks against the United States in 2001. At 8:14 am EDT on that morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast...

Practicing the Art of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Jun 27, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Dances, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Publications

My husband and I woke up in afterglow this morning. With help from members of the InterPlay based troupe SoulPrint Players, we performed to a near sellout audience last night at a small black box theater in Atlanta. Major themes were from my new book, The Art of...

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Learn the Many, Magical Ways Art Transforms Grieving!

(No art skills required.)

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

In my new book (COMING SOON), I'll share some uncommon notions about grief and how the arts, and art-making, have transformative powers that take us to the heart of the matter.

Grieving for a Country

The Arts and Collective Grieving

The Impact of an Art Image on the Art of Grieving

Help Resolve the Grief of Releasing Creative Projects

Practicing the Art of Grieving

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