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The Art of Change

by Sheila Collins | Nov 16, 2023 | Art & Life, Community, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Personal Stories, Rituals, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Spirtuality, Women, Girls & the Feminine

I’m just back home in Pittsburgh after spending time in Oakland CA and at a woman’s retreat in the woods of East Texas. One of the known values of travel is to appreciate your home in a new way and, though it’s not to be counted on, this glorious mild, sunny weather...

Between the Worlds

by Sheila Collins | Sep 27, 2023 | Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Self-Care for Caregivers, Songs, Spirtuality, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Not only do we not “practice dying,” as Socrates advised his students, but most people in western culture know very little about the process of dying, and how to be with someone when that is what is transpiring. Of course, not all deaths can be accompanied, many...

Caring and Not Caring

by Sheila Collins | Jan 26, 2023 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Personal Stories, Self-Care, Self-Care for Caregivers, Women, Girls & the Feminine

In a note from Glenda Taylor, the leader of the woman’s retreat I will be attending this weekend in Texas, she did something she’s done every season in the 32 years that I’ve been attending. She shared the topic– Care, Self-Care, Care for Others, Compassion,...

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...

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...

Consolation in the Early Days of Loss

by Sheila Collins | Sep 2, 2021 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Family, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Self-Care for Caregivers, The Art of Grieving

To live in this world you must be able to do three things; to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods In the ten days...

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