{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F2096c940-0104-4370-9d3a-262d2b0c4cf8","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Grief as Sacred Art: Sheila K. Collins on Healing Through Creativity\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/2096c940-0104-4370-9d3a-262d2b0c4cf8\"></iframe>","title":"Grief as Sacred Art: Sheila K. Collins on Healing Through Creativity","description":"In this deeply moving episode of Healing Horizons, we welcome Sheila K. Collins\u2014grief advocate, author of The Art of Grieving, and former professional dancer. Sheila shares her powerful journey of loss, from losing her son to AIDS and her daughter to breast cancer, and how creativity became her lifeline. Through dance, poetry, and storytelling, she found a way to alchemize sorrow into sacred expression. This episode explores how art changes our brain, opens our hearts, and helps us remain connected to those we've lost\u2014transforming grief into a lifelong, soulful companion rather than a chapter we try to close.\n\u00a0\nAbout the Guest:Sheila K. Collins is a grief advocate, author, former professional dancer, and social work professor. Her book The Art of Grieving explores how artmaking\u2014movement, music, poetry, and story\u2014helps us live fully even in loss. She also teaches a system called InterPlay, blending creativity and embodiment to support healing around the world.\n\u00a0\nKey Takeaways:\n\n\nGrief can be transformed through embodied creativity like dance, storytelling, and song.\n\n\nArt changes our brain and invites emotional processing in ways words often can\u2019t.\n\n\nPresence, not perfection, is the essence of creative healing.\n\n\nInterPlay and community-based art practices have supported healing in diverse populations, including trauma survivors.\n\n\nGrief is not linear\u2014it\u2019s a spiral, a thread we learn to weave into the tapestry of our lives.\n\n\n\u00a0\nConnect with Sheila K. Collins:Website: https://www.sheilakcollins.comBook: The Art of Grieving: How Art and Artmaking Help Us Live Our Best LivesLearn more about InterPlay: https://www.interplay.org\n\u00a0\nWant to be a guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life?DM on PodMatch: DM Me HereSubscribe to Newsletter:https://healthymindbyavik.substack.com/Join Our Community:https://nas.io/healthymind\n\u00a0\nStay Tuned And Follow Us!YouTube: @healthymind-healthylifeInstagram: @podhealth.clubThreads: @podhealth.clubFacebook: Podcast Healthy MindLinkedIn: Avik | Team\n#podmatch #healthymind #healthymindbyavik #griefhealing #creativetherapy #wellness","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ea739b07-c0de-4eec-805f-6e266f2967bc/mzhhzs5qcgc.jpg"}