ReImagine | Sheila Collins

Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

by Sheila Collins | Sep 26, 2024 | Art & Life, Community, Dances, Environment, Health and Wellness, ReImagine, Technology, the Big Body

Not sure when it started, but it feels like once I left home in my late teens, I always had the fear of becoming a bag lady. And when I’ve shared this fear with women friends of my generation, they admit that they too experienced this anticipatory grief throughout...

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...

The Creative Process and What Keeps Us Going On

by Sheila Collins | Mar 7, 2024 | Celebrations, Duality, Environment, Health and Wellness, History, ReImagine, Science, Technology and the Environment, the Big Body, Uncategorized, Women, Girls & the Feminine

“When can I get an actual book?” my friends ask me, and it reminds me again of how long creative projects take. The ideas and inspiration can take seconds but the implementation–years. In fact, lots of things take longer than we can ever imagine, especially if...

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. ...

Hello 2023!

by Sheila Collins | Jan 5, 2023 | Art & Life, Duality, Environment, Gatherings, Personal Stories, ReImagine, Resilience, Stillpoint, Uncategorized, Women, Girls & the Feminine

I’ve been in the northern California Bay Area this week and a storm caused a slight delay in posting today’s message. High winds, torrential rain, flooding, downed trees, mud slides, and power outages are continuing to occur this morning. So, as I’m wishing you a...

Doing Love Out Loud

by Sheila Collins | Oct 27, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, History, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, ReImagine, Resilience, social justice, the Big Body

Today is the 4th anniversary of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in my hometown, Pittsburgh, PA. Eleven people were murdered in their house of worship, impacting hundreds and thousands of others in their families, neighborhoods, towns, and countries....

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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.

Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

Grieving Our Covid Losses

The Creative Process and What Keeps Us Going On

How to Grieve War and its Atrocities

Hello 2023!

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