My guest today is Dr. Sheila K. Collins, author of the recently released The Art of Grieving: How Art and Artmaking Help Us Grieve and Live Our Best Lives. A grief advocate and international speaker, Dr. Collins brings both personal experience and professional expertise to her work. She has endured the loss of a son to AIDS and a daughter to breast cancer—losses she chronicled in her award-winning memoir, Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals that Heal.
With a 40-year career as a therapist, professor, and social worker and a background as a professional dancer, Dr. Collins has helped thousands transform life’s toughest challenges into post-traumatic growth. Her TEDx talk, When Death Threatens Someone We Love, offers a poignant perspective for those supporting loved ones through terminal illness.
She is also the author of Stillpoint: A Self-Care Playbook for Caregivers, now a popular online course for family and professional caregivers.
She currently directs the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based performance troupe that helps individuals and organizations tell their stories in transforming ways.

Her Website:  https://sheilakcollins.com/

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