Resilience | 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...

National “Days Of “ Calendars Grief and Play

by Sheila Collins | Aug 31, 2018 | Good Will Come, Grieving, Improvisation, Our Children, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Last Thursday, August 30th was “National Grief Awareness Day.” Like me, you probably didn’t know there was a Grief Awareness Day, but as an expert on grief and loss, I can see how it is needed. It’s only...

Lessons in Mourning from a Mother Whale

by Sheila Collins | Aug 16, 2018 | Grieving, Health and Wellness, Resilience, The Art of Grieving, Uncategorized

A mother orca whale made international news recently when, after delivering a calf on July 25th that lived only a half an hour, she began a funeral procession that lasted more than two weeks. There hadn’t been a live birth in her pod for three years and...

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...

Cultural Brilliance Radio: The DNA of Organizational Excellence with Claudette Rowley: The Gifts of Resilience with Richard Citrin and Sheila Collins

by Sheila Collins | Jun 9, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Institutional Loss, Resilience, The Art of Grieving, Uncategorized

Did you catch the radio show that our host Claudette Rowley describes as: thought provoking conversation with Richard Citrin and Sheila Collins, partners in work and life, and authors, speakers, and consultants in the field of...

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

National “Days Of “ Calendars Grief and Play

Lessons in Mourning from a Mother Whale

Grieving BIG Societal losses

Cultural Brilliance Radio: The DNA of Organizational Excellence with Claudette Rowley: The Gifts of Resilience with Richard Citrin and Sheila Collins

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