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A Garden Remembers

by Sheila Collins | Jul 24, 2020 | Art & Life, Environment, Family, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Meditations, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Spirtuality, Stillpoint, The Art of Grieving

I was having one of those down days. My sister is in a memory care center in the Boston area, so of course I hadn’t been able to see or talk to her for several months. I’d gotten an email about a meeting the staff was having for family members, but the notice came so...

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

by Sheila Collins | Jun 18, 2020 | Community, Dances, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Science, Technology and the Environment, Self-Care, Songs

Alice Walker said it best, in the title of her 2010 poetry book, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing. A friend texted me an image of the book’s cover the other day and reminded me of this beautiful work and its author, whom I’ve had the honor and pleasure of meeting...

Eating Healthy in the Midst of a Pandemic

by Sheila Collins | May 14, 2020 | Art & Life, Environment, Health, Health and Wellness, Resilience, Self-Care

It takes 66 days to make progress on establishing a new habit. Given that many of us have been sheltering at home for about that long –What healthy and unhealthy eating habits have you been forming? “I’ve gained 10 pounds since being stuck at home,” a friend told me...

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...

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A Garden Remembers

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

Eating Healthy in the Midst of a Pandemic

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

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