"Warrior Mother is the story of how social worker and dancer Sheila K. Collins was tested to the limits of understanding and endurance by her gay son's losing struggle with AIDS, her daughter's terminal breast cancer, and the effects those losses had on her family and herself. Ultimately, she learned to triumph over despair; her book is a poignant story of love, grief, and the rituals that help those left behind to heal."--Book jacket.
"Warrior Mother is the story of how social worker and dancer Sheila K. Collins was tested to the limits of understanding and endurance by her gay son's losing struggle with AIDS, her daughter's terminal breast cancer, and the effects those losses had on her family and herself. Ultimately, she learned to triumph over despair; her book is a poignant story of love, grief, and the rituals that help those left behind to heal."--Book jacket.
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. ;
