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We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again

by Sheila Collins | Apr 23, 2020 | Health and Wellness, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

Remembering prior successes helps keep our hope alive throughout a tough challenge. When the U.S. entered World War II they did so accompanied by the song, “We did it before and we can do it again!” A children’s cartoon of the song shows uniformed mice marching past a...

Radical Self-Care for Front Line Caregivers and Those who Love Them

by Sheila Collins | Apr 16, 2020 | Good Will Come, Health and Wellness, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Stillpoint, The Art of Grieving

I was on an airplane a few years ago when a flight attendant made the following announcement, “We have several members of the United States Armed Forces on board today so let’s let them know how much we thank them for their service.” Most everyone on board looked...

Sheltering In Place – Published April 9th, 2020

by Sheila Collins | Apr 16, 2020 | Environment, Good Will Come, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers

Families Sheltering at Home – To much togetherness? Not enough? Or Just Right? Goldilocks figured it out. One bed was too soft, the other two hard; one porridge too hot, the other porridge too cold – but then – she found the ones that were just right. Not that easy...

Radical Self-Care Published April 2nd, 2020

by Sheila Collins | Apr 16, 2020 | Good Will Come, Health and Wellness, Resilience, Rituals

I woke up a couple of days ago with a swollen itchy left upper arm and determined it must have happened from a spider bite during the night. Since this was the second such incident in a week, (the first was a red itchy spot on the back of my neck) it was clear –in...

Avoiding Fates Worse Than Death – Published 3/26/2020

by Sheila Collins | Apr 16, 2020 | Good Will Come, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories

“You will leave everything you love most: this is the arrow that the bow of exile shoots first” Dante – Paradiso XVII: 55-60 Like most everyone in the country in the last couple of weeks, I’ve had to forgo some of what I love most, an in-person visit...

Self Care While Giving Care?

by Sheila Collins | Feb 20, 2020 | Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers

Where did the day go? It’s after 5 pm already. I got the dog walked this morning and to the groomer’s and back. I walked him again this evening, but now he’s refusing to eat his dinner. What’s up with that? Cody’s routine has been interrupted of late. Rich was in the...

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We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again

Radical Self-Care for Front Line Caregivers and Those who Love Them

Sheltering In Place – Published April 9th, 2020

Radical Self-Care Published April 2nd, 2020

Avoiding Fates Worse Than Death – Published 3/26/2020

Self Care While Giving Care?

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