the Big Body | Sheila Collins

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...

The Creative Process and What Keeps Us Going On

by Sheila Collins | Mar 7, 2024 | Celebrations, Duality, Environment, Health and Wellness, History, ReImagine, Science, Technology and the Environment, the Big Body, Uncategorized, Women, Girls & the Feminine

“When can I get an actual book?” my friends ask me, and it reminds me again of how long creative projects take. The ideas and inspiration can take seconds but the implementation–years. In fact, lots of things take longer than we can ever imagine, especially if...

Grieving to Overcome Hate

by Sheila Collins | Nov 30, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Good Will Come, Grieving, History, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, The Art of Grieving, the Big Body, Writing

I didn’t see the National news item when it was broadcast across the gigantic flat TV screen at the airport this morning. But I saw its effect in the eyes of my traveling companion. As he described its message to me, the churning sensations in my gut reminded me of...

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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.

The Arts and Collective Grieving

Anticipatory Grief – How can it work for us?

Event Planning and the Hospitality of Safe Air

The Creative Process and What Keeps Us Going On

Grieving to Overcome Hate

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