Warrior Mother
by Collins, Sheila K., Ph.D.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2013-08-28
Publisher(s): She Writes Pr
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
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. ;
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Part One
Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Getting to Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Support for a Mother's Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Initiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Medicine Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Life upon the Wicked Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
To Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Spring Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
The Dying Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Celebrations of Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Part Two
Reacting to the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Dreams and the Kindness of Strangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Preparations for a Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
To Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Beyond the Ends of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Extremely High-Tech Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Bone Marrow Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
One Hundred Days Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Dancing on the Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Saying Good-Bye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Midwifery Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Ashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
The Grandmother Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Part One
Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Getting to Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Support for a Mother's Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Initiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Medicine Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Life upon the Wicked Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
To Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Spring Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
The Dying Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Celebrations of Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Part Two
Reacting to the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Dreams and the Kindness of Strangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Preparations for a Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
To Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Beyond the Ends of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Extremely High-Tech Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Bone Marrow Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
One Hundred Days Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Dancing on the Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Saying Good-Bye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Midwifery Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Ashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
The Grandmother Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
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