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The Remembering Rooms

by Sheila Collins | Mar 23, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Celebrations, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, History, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Stillpoint, Story-telling, Women, Girls & the Feminine

It was a Saturday, the first in a long time, when I wasn’t out of town, or too tightly scheduled to consider a variation in the day’s routine. I put the regional newspaper in the front seat of my car when I left for my exercise class, thinking that, after class I’d...

Beginning Anew While Being Aware of the End

by Sheila Collins | Jan 12, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Celebrations, Family, Good Will Come, Grieving, Resilience, The Art of Grieving

Here we are in January, the first month of the new year in our solar based calendar. Named after one of the oldest of the Roman gods Janus, the god of temporal transitions, he is venerated for being able to see both past and future. As women in this week’s online...

Gratitude for It All

by Sheila Collins | Dec 29, 2022 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Celebrations, Duality, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Past Events, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving, Uncategorized, Writing

In a few days the ball will drop on this present year, igniting flashing lights and celebratory songs to welcome in the new year. Some people will be relieved that 2022 is over. For them the challenges have been frequent, the struggles heavy and difficult. Perhaps...

Musical Soundtracks for Grieving Loss and Celebrating Life

by Sheila Collins | Oct 12, 2022 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Community, Personal Stories, Songs, Story-telling, Writing

Grandsons Ethan and Will were probably 9 and 6 when I watched their mother interrupt a fight they were having. She had clearly done this before, and I saw that she had some skill in getting the boys to look at the situation from the other person’s point of view. After...

Art As Medicine – Consider Poetry

by Sheila Collins | Aug 11, 2022 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Duality, Family, Good Will Come, Grieving, Improvisation, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, The Art of Grieving

I’m not a poet though I’ve often wished I were one. To say profound things succinctly, to be able to express the musicality of images, to highlight the rhythm and tone of words. And now as I’m learning, to be able to create what J. S. Mill claimed of Wordsworth’s...

How Do You Self-Care?

by Sheila Collins | Aug 23, 2018 | Book Excerpts, book promotion, Dances, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Play, Poems, Self-Care for Caregivers, Songs, Stillpoint, Story-telling, Writing

When I wrote the first version of my book on self-care 25 years ago the big issue around self-care, especially for women, was giving ourselves permission to do it. Wasn’t it selfish to focus on ourselves? Wasn’t the goal to forget about ourselves and selflessly serve...

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The Remembering Rooms

Beginning Anew While Being Aware of the End

Gratitude for It All

Musical Soundtracks for Grieving Loss and Celebrating Life

How Do You Self-Care?

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