Health and Wellness | Sheila Collins

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...

When Things Go Wrong

by Sheila Collins | Mar 6, 2013 | Health and Wellness

Several years after I left home to pursue my own life, I returned for a visit and found my kid brother’s report card on the family refrigerator. A senior in high school, he hadn’t always done his best, but this report card confirmed an amazing achievement. It...

Does Dancing With Everything Include Poison Ivy?

by Sheila Collins | May 6, 2012 | Environment, Health and Wellness

In celebration of Earth Day, I joined the Friends of the River last Sunday, for a neighborhood planting and clean up of the river trail by my house. On such a beautiful sunny day it felt good to be outside playing in the dirt. I had so much fun that in the afternoon...

Next Entries »

Learn the Many, Magical Ways Art Transforms Grieving!

(No art skills required.)

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.

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

The Dance of Flexibility

Does Dancing Make You Smarter?

When Things Go Wrong

Does Dancing With Everything Include Poison Ivy?

Latest Posts

Categories

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

Poster Download

You have Successfully Subscribed!