Warrior Mother: A Memoir of Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss, and Rituals that Heal

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Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable, Loss, and Rituals that Heal is the true story of a mother's fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening disease.

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We have to make art out of what happens to us, writes Sheila K. Collins. Warrior Mother is a testament to how art making, done in a sacred context, can transform tremendous loss. Collins reminds us of the endurance and healing power of loveespecially a mothers love.
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, author of Writing the Sacred Journey:The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir
Just as love survives death, so too does spirit supplant mere survival. Collins has faced a parents worst fears and learned to still dance in their wake. Warrior Mother is a mothers manual of profound honesty, hope, and healing.
Marc Nieson, author of Schoolhouse: A Memoir in 13 Lessons
With courage and grace, Warrior Mother generously invites the reader on a heartbreaking journey, with equal doses of candor and sensitivity. Admirably free of self-pity, physically and emotionally precise, this story is bound to enlighten others who have grieved and healed from the loss of a child.
Sarah Saffian, author of Ithaka: A Daughters Memoir of Being Found

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Sheila K. Collins, PhD has been a dancer, social worker, university professor, clinic director, writer, and improvisational performance artist. She currently directs the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based improvisational performance troupe that assists human service agencies in serving noble purposes in the Pittsburgh community. Sheila has written about the power of play, dance, and the expressive arts in her book, Stillpoint: The Dance of Selfcaring, Selfhealing, a playbook for people who do caring work and on her blog, Dancing With Everything which is on her website, sheilakcollins.com. Her forthcoming book, to be published by She Writes Press, Warrior Mother: A memoir of fierce love, unbearable loss, and rituals that heal comes out in April, 2013. ;