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Grieving for a Country

by Sheila Collins | Jan 25, 2025 | Book Excerpts, book promotion, Community, Dances, Environment, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, Improvisation, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

About a decade ago, I expanded my view of loss and what situations need grieving. I had written a book, Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals that Heal that illustrated the grieving of personal and familial situations of loss and touched on the...

Grieving Devastation

by Sheila Collins | Jan 16, 2025 | Art & Life, Community, Environment, Good Will Come, Grieving, Resilience, Science, Technology and the Environment, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

We’ve seen it on our screens for days now, the devastation of entire neighborhoods; schools, places of worship, shops, restaurants, and landmarks, all through the eyes of photojournalists whose job it is to communicate and record what’s happening in our larger world....

The Gifts of Remembering

by Sheila Collins | Dec 19, 2024 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Dances, Family, Gatherings, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Science, Technology and the Environment, Story-telling, Women, Girls & the Feminine

One of the cruelest outcomes of the “put it all behind you” and “move on with your life,” philosophy of managing loss is that we miss out on the gifts and life lessons that come through remembering. In a couple of recent events, I have been reminded of some of those...

Grief, Money and Dirty Pain

by Sheila Collins | Dec 12, 2024 | Duality, Environment, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, History, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, Story-telling, the Big Body

To become resilient and grow from what happens to us, we must choose to face and metabolize the pain of loss. That’s what the art of grieving is. Psychotherapist Resmaa Menakem describes “clean pain’ as that which is faced and transformed while “Dirty Pain” is pain...

The Power of Community Art

by Sheila Collins | Dec 5, 2024 | Art & Life, Family, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Our Children, Personal Stories, Science, Technology and the Environment, Story-telling, the Big Body, Uncategorized

With all the media attention on the incoming president’s appointments, you may not have heard that this week, in honor of World AIDS Day 2024, sections of the AIDS memorial quilt were exhibited for the first time on the White House South Lawn. Our current President...

Craft, Memories and the Art of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Aug 8, 2024 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Community, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

Last May, after writing and publishing a book on how art and artmaking help us grieve, I learned of the opening of the Contemporary Craft Museum’s art exhibit, Hereafter. I attended the opening which featured 13 regional artists exploring the themes of grief, mourning...

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Learn the Many, Magical Ways Art Transforms Grieving!

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Loss is inevitable, yet too often we bury our grief, pretending we're OK when we're not.

In my new book (COMING SOON), I'll share some uncommon notions about grief and how the arts, and art-making, have transformative powers that take us to the heart of the matter.

Grieving for a Country

Grieving Devastation

The Gifts of Remembering

Grief, Money and Dirty Pain

The Power of Community Art

Craft, Memories and the Art of Grieving

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