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Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

by Sheila Collins | Sep 26, 2024 | Art & Life, Community, Dances, Environment, Health and Wellness, ReImagine, Technology, the Big Body

Not sure when it started, but it feels like once I left home in my late teens, I always had the fear of becoming a bag lady. And when I’ve shared this fear with women friends of my generation, they admit that they too experienced this anticipatory grief throughout...

Being in Gratitude

by Sheila Collins | Nov 23, 2023 | book promotion, Community, Dances, Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Publications, Technology

To introduce the theme of celebrating gratitude to our online class for caregivers this past Tuesday, my co-author and I Christine Gautreaux decided to read the two acknowledgement pages that the book we use as our syllabus contains. There are two because we kept the...

Wisdom and a New Film from a Master of the Art of Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Jul 27, 2023 | Environment, Family, Grieving, Health, Health and Wellness, Noteworthy men, Science, Technology and the Environment, Songs, Story-telling, Technology

The Art of Grieving involves processing life’s significant losses to discover the wisdom in them and to use that for our future lives. The arts can be powerful tools in this processing, and often provide ways to share this wisdom with others. I am excited to share...

War and Peace

by Sheila Collins | Mar 3, 2022 | Art & Life, Christianity, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Grieving, History, Rituals, Science, Technology and the Environment, Technology, the Big Body

On the road for six hours, I’d finally come to rest on a feather soft bed in a fancy New York hotel room a half a mile above the city streets. A hotel porter brings something my husband asked for and smiles when he sees me resting there. He looks out the broad windows...

Abilities and Disabilities

by Sheila Collins | Feb 24, 2022 | Duality, Environment, Family, Health, Health and Wellness, History, Noteworthy men, Our Children, Personal Stories, Self-Care, Story-telling, Technology

I’ve heard recently of several friends and acquaintances suffering the effects of serious falls. This is probably not unusual at my time of life, since falling is considered a major health risk for elders, and the risk of serious injury or death increases with age....

Art as Inspiration and Immersion

by Sheila Collins | Nov 4, 2021 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Environment, Noteworthy men, Personal Stories, Technology

When my husband first mentioned it, I wasn’t sure I wanted to go to the Immersive Exhibit of artist Van Gogh’s oeuvre, “body of work” when it visited Pittsburgh. Conceived and designed by creative director and Italian film producer Massimiliano Siccardi, with...

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Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

Being in Gratitude

Wisdom and a New Film from a Master of the Art of Grieving

War and Peace

Abilities and Disabilities

Art as Inspiration and Immersion

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