Health | Sheila Collins

Riding the Roller Coaster of Our Own or a Loved One’s Health and Illness

by Sheila Collins | Oct 18, 2018 | Art & Life, Good Will Come, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care for Caregivers, Stillpoint, The Art of Grieving

“It’s gonna get way worse,” the doctor told the patient and his caregiver wife a year into their journey with Alzheimer’s. “Not sure what to do with that downer statement,” the wife told me as we talked about...

Nature as Self-Care for our Daily Lives

by Sheila Collins | Sep 10, 2018 | Art & Life, book promotion, Environment, Health, Health and Wellness, Meditations, Personal Stories, Play, Self-Care for Caregivers, Stillpoint

In the past ten days, I’ve been on what my husband and I call a “vacation vacation.” This is a trip we take where we are not visiting relatives, where neither of us is giving a presentation or consulting with a client. We are just resting and relaxing, a true R and R....

Grief’s Gifts From The Bookshelf

by Sheila Collins | Jul 12, 2018 | Art & Life, Good Will Come, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Story-telling

We moved a large cabinet over the weekend that had been in our second-floor guest room for nearly 13 years. Removing all the books it held created a major mess and the opportunity to sort and cull our book collection. It also necessitated our purchasing another...

Grieving BIG Societal losses

by Sheila Collins | Jul 5, 2018 | Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Institutional Loss, Our Children, Past Events, Resilience, School Shootings, The Art of Grieving

The pubic conversation around grief and loss has been improving in recent months. Rather than the usual practice of avoiding the topic of death and other losses, we seem to be recognizing that there is such a thing as grief and as community members we grapple with how...

The Hidden Truths in Cemeteries

by Sheila Collins | Jun 7, 2018 | Grieving, Health, Past Events, Personal Stories, Rituals, The Art of Grieving

[bctt tweet=”I have several friends who take frequent walks in a nearby historical community cemetery, bringing back photos and stories of their experiences there” username=”@sheilakcollins”]. So this...

When Institutions Die

by Sheila Collins | May 31, 2018 | Grieving, Health, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving

I don’t have much of a sweet tooth now, but as a kid, it was a different story. Our nurse mother didn’t allow us to have sweets very often, so that may have been part of what made candy such a treat. Now...

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Riding the Roller Coaster of Our Own or a Loved One’s Health and Illness

Nature as Self-Care for our Daily Lives

Grief’s Gifts From The Bookshelf

Grieving BIG Societal losses

The Hidden Truths in Cemeteries

When Institutions Die

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