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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...

To Change Our World

by Sheila Collins | Nov 2, 2023 | Art & Life, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Dances, Duality, Gatherings, Grieving, Personal Stories, Rituals, Songs, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving, Women, Girls & the Feminine, Writing

When I was in high school, I read a newspaper article about a new kind of therapy. What I knew about mental health therapy at that time was that it was an expensive individual process, often taking years, where a person worked on their own behaviors and attitudes with...

Another Visit From a Butterfly

by Sheila Collins | Oct 12, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Celebrations, Community, Environment, Gatherings, Our Children, Past Events, Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine, Writing

I only had one assignment from my writing coach when I left Pittsburgh last week to spend 5 days in Belize at a women’s retreat. My intention was to step away and have some time for reflection, but our project is at the place where we need to establish a launch date...

Using the Arts to Grieve – It’s a Brain Thing

by Sheila Collins | Apr 20, 2023 | Art & Life, Book Excerpts, book promotion, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories, Self-Care, The Art of Grieving, Writing

In the early to mid 90s, when my youngest son Kenneth was living with AIDs, and I was in the role of his primary supporter, I had a personal physician who offered a unique perspective. An appointment with Dr. Mary Anne began with her listening attentively as I...

Celebrating A Life

by Sheila Collins | Mar 16, 2023 | Celebrations, Community, Dances, Duality, Environment, Family, Gatherings, Grieving, Our Children, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving, Writing

It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon in Newport Oregon and the “comfortable, modern lobby” of the Holiday Inn Express is uncharacteristically busy. The printer/copy machine has been in continual operation for a while as three 20 something young people, and what appears to...

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...

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