Resilience | Sheila Collins

The Art of Grieving Domestic Violence

by Sheila Collins | Oct 24, 2024 | Community, Duality, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Resilience, Self-Care

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so designated as such in 1987. In the nearly 40 years since congress passed Public Law 101-112 officially designating October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, hopefully we have become more aware as a culture...

Transforming Grief and Rage into Courage and Action

by Sheila Collins | Sep 12, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Publications, Resilience, Rituals, social justice

It’s been 23 years since four Islamist terrorists, members of al-Qaeda, engaged in coordinated suicide attacks against the United States in 2001. At 8:14 am EDT on that morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast...

The Art of Dancing on Behalf of Peace

by Sheila Collins | Feb 22, 2024 | Art & Life, Dances, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Poems, Resilience, Songs

In the midst of these contentious and challenging times, the non-profit organization I have belonged to for over 30 years, Body Wisdom, has joined with other peace-building non-profits and artists to host Dances On Behalf of Peace, an 11 day, half-hour virtual...

Family Reunion

by Sheila Collins | Jan 4, 2024 | Celebrations, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Health and Wellness, History, Our Children, Personal Stories, Play, Resilience, Rituals

The sign that greeted visitors to the house we’d rented for our family reunion in Palm Springs read, “Welcome to Paradise.” As family members arrived by plane or auto or rental car on the various days of the 9-day holiday, the sign reinforces the notion that we were...

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...

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Loss is inevitable, yet too often we bury our grief, pretending we're OK when we're not.

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The Art of Grieving Domestic Violence

The Art of Dancing on Behalf of Peace

Family Reunion

Pittsburgh Understands the Art of Grieving and Practices it Well

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