Duality | Sheila Collins

The Morning After

by Sheila Collins | Nov 7, 2024 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories

I arrived home last night from my job as a poll watcher about 9 pm. I warmed up some soup and checked the television news for early returns as the polls were closing across the country. Checking into my own body, I realized I had “left it all on the field,” as the...

The Art of Grieving Domestic Violence

by Sheila Collins | Oct 24, 2024 | Community, Duality, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Resilience, Self-Care

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so designated as such in 1987. In the nearly 40 years since congress passed Public Law 101-112 officially designating October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, hopefully we have become more aware as a culture...

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...

Broken Hearts, Broken Families, Broken Careers

by Sheila Collins | Sep 19, 2024 | Art & Life, Duality, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving

A family therapy expert whose name I can’t recall, or I would give him proper credit said something when I was a student in his class that I’ve never forgotten all these years later– “You can never be rid of anyone, (and I would add, anything) that you have ever...

Milestone Events and Grief

by Sheila Collins | May 16, 2024 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Duality, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Publications, The Art of Grieving, Writing

Seems like everything I do teaches me something more about grief and how ubiquitous it is in our everyday lives. This evening, I will be hosting a launch party and performance event, something I call “Performing the Book.” The Art of Grieving: How Art and Artmaking...

Grieving Our Covid Losses

by Sheila Collins | Mar 28, 2024 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Duality, Grieving, Health and Wellness, History, Institutional Loss, Past Events, Personal Stories, ReImagine, The Art of Grieving

Like many other writers during the Covid pandemic shutdown I decided to use the time I was being given to write a new book. For a grief advocate the situation was offering continuous, unprecedented, multiple examples of losses in need of processing. And, at the bottom...

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The Morning After

The Art of Grieving Domestic Violence

Help Resolve the Grief of Releasing Creative Projects

Broken Hearts, Broken Families, Broken Careers

Milestone Events and Grief

Grieving Our Covid Losses

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