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Grieving Our Covid Losses

by Sheila Collins | Mar 28, 2024 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Duality, Grieving, Health and Wellness, History, Institutional Loss, Past Events, Personal Stories, ReImagine, The Art of Grieving

Like many other writers during the Covid pandemic shutdown I decided to use the time I was being given to write a new book. For a grief advocate the situation was offering continuous, unprecedented, multiple examples of losses in need of processing. And, at the bottom...

Pittsburgh Understands the Art of Grieving and Practices it Well

by Sheila Collins | Oct 26, 2023 | Art & Life, Institutional Loss, Noteworthy men, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, The Art of Grieving, Uncategorized

It was the spring of 2018. A group of leaders, educational institutions, and non-profits in Pittsburgh began working together to bring to Pittsburgh some of the 70 restored string instruments played by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. They wanted...

Estrangements in Work and Career

by Sheila Collins | Oct 4, 2023 | Community, Duality, Environment, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body

Forty percent of people will lose a job at least once in their lifetime and 23% of people will lose a job three or more times, according to data from Intoo and the Harris Poll. In being fired, laid off, or furloughed, 73% of people will experience anxiety. This easily...

Mass Shootings and Support for Those That Grieve

by Sheila Collins | Feb 16, 2023 | Community, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Our Children, School Shootings, The Art of Grieving

In my online classes with people from across the country and beyond it, I have participants check in by mentioning “What ‘s Up?” for them, what’s top-of-mind? Could be a snowstorm headed their way, celebratory feelings of a project going well, or a mishap that...

The Art of Grieving Back to School Edition

by Sheila Collins | Aug 25, 2022 | Community, Environment, Family, Institutional Loss, Our Children, School Shootings

Walking the dog in our neighborhood this morning, we noticed more people on the streets than usual. It took a minute for us to figure out why that was. First, we encountered a lively 4- or 5- year-old girl in a bright red dress skipping ahead of her backpack wearing...

Finding Something to Do

by Sheila Collins | Jun 2, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Our Children, School Shootings, social justice, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body

We’re at the grocery store, we’re on our way to pick the kids up at school, we’re at the doctor’s office waiting for an appointment– and because we carry a device that keeps us up-to-the-minute on whatever is happening anywhere in the country, we get the news. “Not...

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