Resilience | Sheila Collins

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....

Art As Medicine – Consider Poetry

by Sheila Collins | Aug 11, 2022 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Duality, Family, Good Will Come, Grieving, Improvisation, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, The Art of Grieving

I’m not a poet though I’ve often wished I were one. To say profound things succinctly, to be able to express the musicality of images, to highlight the rhythm and tone of words. And now as I’m learning, to be able to create what J. S. Mill claimed of Wordsworth’s...

How Art Helps Us Grieve

by Sheila Collins | Jul 21, 2022 | Duality, Environment, Family, Grieving, Past Events, Personal Stories, Resilience, The Art of Grieving

“Will this ever be over?” It’s a question we ask ourselves, each other, and the universe, when challenges and unpleasant situations persist, way beyond our patience to deal with them. In recent weeks, two different friends, in different parts of the country traveled...

The Art of Grieving: Illness and Disability Edition

by Sheila Collins | Jun 16, 2022 | Environment, Family, Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Resilience, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Story-telling

I don’t do sick well. Or maybe there’s parts of it I don’t do well. I usually notice when illness strikes or when something’s wrong, having taught body awareness and embodiment practices for years. But the next step, figuring out the cause of what’s wrong, I’m not...

Where do we go from here?

by Sheila Collins | Feb 2, 2022 | Art & Life, Community, Family, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Personal Stories, Resilience, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Even if you don’t live in Pittsburgh, you might know about the bridge over a ravine that collapsed this week. It happened early the morning that President Biden was scheduled to come to Pittsburgh to talk about the importance of his infrastructure bill. Fortunately,...

Reflections on a Month of Winter in Pennsylvania

by Sheila Collins | Jan 27, 2022 | Environment, Family, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Story-telling

Looking out my sliding glass door at the Allegheny River and its expanding shoreline I have evidence that January 2022 is one of the coldest Januarys we’ve had since we moved here in 2005. Snow covers the river almost halfway to its middle, resting on the ice that has...

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