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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...

The Arts and Collective Grieving

by Sheila Collins | Nov 14, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Gatherings, Grieving, Institutional Loss, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body

Collective grief is stimulated by large scale losses and tragedies, some impacting people and communities far from the initial ground zero of the event. I began putting together the material for my current book during the lock down phase of COVID when most everyone’s...

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...

Memory and Meaning at The Election Time

by Sheila Collins | Aug 22, 2024 | Community, Environment, Gatherings, History, Personal Stories, social justice, the Big Body

Election Day 2024 in the United States is just a little more than 2 months away. Unfortunately, this fact is not of equal importance to all our citizens. Many people want no part of the hyperactive every four years campaigns to influence election outcomes. Despite the...

Event Planning and the Hospitality of Safe Air

by Sheila Collins | May 9, 2024 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Gatherings, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Publications, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body

“Clean Air Started Here,” declares the banners on the main street of Donora Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. The signs refer to a tragic incident in 1949 when the town suffered an air inversion incident that caused the smog from the steel industry furnaces to hover low...

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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.

Grief, Money and Dirty Pain

The Power of Community Art

The Arts and Collective Grieving

Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

Event Planning and the Hospitality of Safe Air

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