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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...

Grief at the Holidays

by Sheila Collins | Nov 28, 2024 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Our Children, The Art of Grieving

As the holidays approach, the subject of Grief becomes more common in articles, social media posts and advice columns. And for good reason. These special days of family celebration can be reminders of who will not be at the table this year. And perhaps as the...

Reentry

by Sheila Collins | Nov 21, 2024 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Community, Duality, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Rituals, Spirtuality, Women, Girls & the Feminine

We’re finally getting the rain we’ve needed all summer which keeps me from my usual slow withdrawal from the outdoors as I return to Pittsburgh from the piney woods of east Texas. The fall women’s retreat was later than usual this year, and I needed it more than...

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...

Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

by Sheila Collins | Sep 26, 2024 | Art & Life, Community, Dances, Environment, Health and Wellness, ReImagine, Technology, the Big Body

Not sure when it started, but it feels like once I left home in my late teens, I always had the fear of becoming a bag lady. And when I’ve shared this fear with women friends of my generation, they admit that they too experienced this anticipatory grief throughout...

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...

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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.

Grief, Money and Dirty Pain

Grief at the Holidays

Reentry

The Art of Grieving Domestic Violence

Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

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