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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...

Honoring Our Deceased Loved Ones

by Sheila Collins | Aug 15, 2024 | Community, Family, Gatherings, Health, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving

Each death of a loved one has its own set of circumstances and presents its own challenges as far as grieving is concerned. But the death of a child is considered by many the most difficult grief assignment that life can hand us. It seems against the natural order,...

The Art of Grieving and Mental Health Awareness

by Sheila Collins | May 2, 2024 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, History, Noteworthy men

Here we are in May–Mental Health Awareness Month. As with other national awareness months, grassroots organizations like Nami, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and agencies like the Mental Health Association participate in a national movement to eliminate the...

Being in Gratitude

by Sheila Collins | Nov 23, 2023 | book promotion, Community, Dances, Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Publications, Technology

To introduce the theme of celebrating gratitude to our online class for caregivers this past Tuesday, my co-author and I Christine Gautreaux decided to read the two acknowledgement pages that the book we use as our syllabus contains. There are two because we kept the...

Dancing On Behalf of Our Grieving Selves

by Sheila Collins | Nov 9, 2023 | Art & Life, Community, Dances, Family, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, History, Improvisation, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving, Uncategorized

I spent the weekend in Oakland CA at InterPlayce, the home of the art-based improvisational system InterPlay, (an active creative approach to unlocking the wisdom of the body.) I’ve been a proponent, participant, practitioner, performer, teacher and altogether...

Wisdom and a New Film from a Master of the Art of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Jul 27, 2023 | Environment, Family, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Noteworthy men, Science, Technology and the Environment, Songs, Story-telling, Technology

The Art of Grieving involves processing life’s significant losses to discover the wisdom in them and to use that for our future lives. The arts can be powerful tools in this processing, and often provide ways to share this wisdom with others. I am excited to share...

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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

Honoring Our Deceased Loved Ones

Being in Gratitude

Dancing On Behalf of Our Grieving Selves

Wisdom and a New Film from a Master of the Art of Grieving

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