Women, Girls & the Feminine

Remembering a Favorite Aunt as Part of the Art of Grieving Well

by Sheila Collins | Jul 6, 2023 | Celebrations, Community, Duality, Family, Grieving, History, Past Events, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving, Uncategorized, Women, Girls & the Feminine

The Fourth of July fireworks always remind me that summer has arrived, no matter what a struggle the spring weather had getting us here. Their nosy beauty also reminds me that my favorite aunt’s birthday is coming right behind. Aunt Dote died in 2004, shortly after...

What’s Ecstasy have to do with Grief?

by Sheila Collins | May 25, 2023 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Christianity, Community, Family, Gatherings, History, Our Children, Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

In this spring season of graduations my husband and I are just back from what we called our “memory lane” motor tour–12 hours driving time each way to Springfield MO. for our granddaughter Vitoria’s graduation with a PhD in Physical Therapy. Turns out there...

The Remembering Rooms

by Sheila Collins | Mar 23, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, Celebrations, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, History, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Stillpoint, Story-telling, Women, Girls & the Feminine

It was a Saturday, the first in a long time, when I wasn’t out of town, or too tightly scheduled to consider a variation in the day’s routine. I put the regional newspaper in the front seat of my car when I left for my exercise class, thinking that, after class I’d...

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...

Companioning Others As They Grieve

by Sheila Collins | Feb 2, 2023 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine

While at a national conference a few years ago I learned that a young colleague had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I sought her out to offer my sympathy and support and I am still embarrassed by how poorly what I said accomplished that. Fortunately, she told me...

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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Remembering a Favorite Aunt as Part of the Art of Grieving Well

What’s Ecstasy have to do with Grief?

The Remembering Rooms

Eulogy for a Particularly Significant Teacher

Companioning Others As They Grieve

Caring and Not Caring

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