Meditations | Sheila Collins

How to Grieve War and its Atrocities

by Sheila Collins | Oct 19, 2023 | Community, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Meditations, Personal Stories, ReImagine, The Art of Grieving

Practicing the art of grieving throughout the years and using the arts to do that, has continually offered me lessons and learnings not available through any other method. A profound example are the lessons I learned in how to grieve when war was declared in Israel. ...

How the Spiral is a Perfect Model for Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Jul 20, 2023 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Environment, Grieving, Meditations, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Self-Care, Spirtuality, The Art of Grieving

Spirals are found in every aspect of nature. They are seen in the unfurling of fern leaves, the shape of snail shells, the arrangement of flower pedals, the cochlea of the inner ear. Not just a simple circle, the path of the spiral changes levels as it grows or moves...

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...

Wisdom for the Arrivals and Departures

by Sheila Collins | Oct 23, 2019 | Art & Life, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Meditations, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Stillpoint, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

I’ve gotten hooked on a sweet Netflix series from the BBC, “Call the Midwife.” It’s set in the East End of London during the 1950s and 60s. Centered in a convent, the storyline features sisters and lay nurse midwives riding their bicycles to tend to the women in the...

The Blessings Bowl

by Sheila Collins | Feb 28, 2019 | Art & Life, Improvisation, Meditations, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving, Uncategorized

Yesterday had been a tough day. It had been preceded by a couple of other tough days and I was having trouble getting out of may own way. I feared I had exhausted the people in my life I rely on to pick me up when I start to crash and burn. So this morning, before I...

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....

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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.

How to Grieve War and its Atrocities

How the Spiral is a Perfect Model for Grieving

A Garden Remembers

Wisdom for the Arrivals and Departures

The Blessings Bowl

Nature as Self-Care for our Daily Lives

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