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The Anatomy of a Massage

by Sheila Collins | Dec 5, 2013 | Health and Wellness, Meditations, Personal Stories, Story-telling

They say you never forget your first, and that’s held true for me. I can still remember in much detail my first massage. Part of its memorable nature involved the striking beauty of the place where it occurred, a hot springs along the shores of the Pacific Ocean in...

My Excitement’s Dancing Me

by Sheila Collins | Aug 8, 2013 | Dances, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories

It’s twenty-one days till my book Warrior Mother’s official launch, but there’s plenty to get excited about in the meantime. And excited I am. I can tell because my insides feel like I’ve left my motor running and my body is going faster than my brain. I keep...

Including Wellbeing in our Measures of Success

by Sheila Collins | Jun 5, 2013 | Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories

I appreciated a friend’s sharing with me Arianna Huffington’s recent commencement address at Smith College. Instead of the usual messages to “go out there and make more money and break more glass ceilings,” she challenged the woman graduates to redefine success. She...

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, Rituals, Writing

People would often say to me, “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, children dying before their parents.” They said it when my thirty-one-year-old son, Kenneth, died of AIDS and again, seven years later, when my forty-two-year-old daughter, Corinne, died of breast...

The Dance of Flexibility

by Sheila Collins | Apr 27, 2013 | Health and Wellness, Story-telling

Until a month ago, if you’d asked me if I consider myself a flexible person I would have said yes. In face, on some occasions I may have been too flexible, putting up with things longer than I probably should have. But there’s nothing like a construction project in...

Does Dancing Make You Smarter?

by Sheila Collins | Apr 15, 2013 | Art & Life, Dances, Health, Health and Wellness

My friend Jim was a good son. A professor of religion at the university where we both worked, he was in his early 60’s. His mother Margaret was a widow in her early 80’s who loved to dance so Jim took her ballroom dancing twice a month. Jim’s wife was a nurse who...

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The Anatomy of a Massage

My Excitement’s Dancing Me

Including Wellbeing in our Measures of Success

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

The Dance of Flexibility

Does Dancing Make You Smarter?

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