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Dying of a Broken Heart?

by Sheila Collins | Jun 8, 2023 | Family, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Self-Care

“He died of a broken heart.” That’s the way my dad’s family always referred to my grandfather’s death. My dad was only 5 years old at the time, so he had little memory of that year when his dad died in the fall following his mother’s death that had occurred...

Designing Environmental Supports for Our Grieving

by Sheila Collins | May 10, 2023 | Environment, Good Will Come, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Rituals, Self-Care

In 1987, when my husband and I were founding Iatreia Institute for the Healing Arts, a group practice mental health clinic in Texas, it was my responsibility to design and arrange the physical space to best serve what was to transpire there. I met with a design...

Using the Arts to Grieve – It’s a Brain Thing

by Sheila Collins | Apr 20, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Self-Care, The Art of Grieving, Writing

In the early to mid 90s, when my youngest son Kenneth was living with AIDs, and I was in the role of his primary supporter, I had a personal physician who offered a unique perspective. An appointment with Dr. Mary Anne began with her listening attentively as I...

Grief Is Not Depression. It’s an Honoring of Sorrow. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman Shows Us the Difference.

by Sheila Collins | Apr 6, 2023 | Duality, Health, Health and Wellness, Noteworthy men, Resilience, Self-Care, The Art of Grieving

The field trip I organized last Saturday to visit artist Amanda Filippelli’s public art installation, The Remembering Room had fewer participants than expected. The exhibit space was designed by the artist as a way of honoring and grieving the loss of her father a...

Eulogy for a Particularly Significant Teacher

by Sheila Collins | Mar 9, 2023 | Personal Stories, Self-Care, Story-telling, Women, Girls & the Feminine, Writing

I met Ilana Rubenfeld in Nebraska in 1975 when she was one of the stars of a Human Potential Movement presentation that toured university campuses under the sponsorship of Esalen Institute. The most well-known member of the group of innovators was Warner Erhard, the...

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,...

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