Rituals | Sheila Collins

Rituals That Heal

by Sheila Collins | Jul 2, 2013 | Dances, Gatherings, Rituals

There was dancing in the streets in Pittsburgh, and many other cities around the country last week when the Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act. Marriage for same sex partners will not soon be available throughout the US,...

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, Rituals, Writing

People would often say to me, “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, children dying before their parents.” They said it when my thirty-one-year-old son, Kenneth, died of AIDS and again, seven years later, when my forty-two-year-old daughter, Corinne, died of breast...

Joshua Trees

by Sheila Collins | Oct 12, 2012 | Environment, Rituals, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Twisted, spiky, almost grotesque appearing trees proliferate in the high desert where my new granddaughter lives. Mormon settlers named them when they spotted the trees in their migration west. To them, the trees appeared as the biblical character Joshua with his arms...

Desert Song

by Sheila Collins | Oct 1, 2012 | Personal Stories, Rituals, Songs, Women, Girls & the Feminine

We’re in the desert again, this time to attend a baby blessing for our granddaughter who lives here. There’s something about deserts that call to the spiritual side of people. I remember visiting Barry Stevens in Moab Utah, in 1973, and our family vacation in Sedona,...

Happy Birth Day!

by Sheila Collins | Sep 9, 2012 | Personal Stories, Rituals, Uncategorized

Enter the darkened birthing chamber. Nurses scurry around, a mother wipes her daughter’s brow, step-dad and the doula have cameras at the ready, the baby’s daddy massages and coaches the soon-to-be mom, while she follows the movements springing from her belly with her...

Questions and Answers

by Sheila Collins | Feb 28, 2012 | Personal Stories, Rituals

My parents were in a “mixed marriage,” meaning in their case, my mother was an Irish Catholic and my father was a “non-catholic.” Dad didn’t go to any church, though he paid to send his six children to catholic schools, as he’d promised when he married mother in the...

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Rituals That Heal

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Joshua Trees

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