Warrior Mother
eBook - ePub

Warrior Mother

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

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Warrior Mother

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

About this book

Warrior Mother 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 diseases. When Sheila Collins’s best friend, dying of breast cancer, asked her to accompany her through what turned out to be the last fourteen days of her life, she didn’t know that the experience was preparing her for what lay ahead with her own children. In the years that followed, Collins had to face both her son’s diagnosis with AIDS and her daughter’s diagnosis with breast cancer. Warrior Mother documents how she faces these challenges and the issues accompanying them—from learning to be the mother of a gay son to visiting a healer in Brazil on her daughter’s behalf when she decides on bone marrow transplant treatment. Experience as a professional social worker and family therapist doesn’t always help Collins to cope with her children’s illnesses—but her relationship with improvisational song, dance, storytelling, and women’s spirituality rituals carries her through. Warrior Mother follows Collins’s family through memorials and celebrations of lives well lived, all the while exploring the impact of grief on those left behind and the rituals that help them heal.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781938314476
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Part One
  7. 1 - Coming Out
  8. 2 - Getting to Yes
  9. 3 - Support for a Mother's Yes
  10. 4 - Initiation
  11. 5 - Medicine Women
  12. 6 - Life Upon the Wicked Stage
  13. 7 - To Health
  14. 8 - Spring Shadows
  15. 9 - The Dying Room
  16. 10 - Celebrations of Ken
  17. Part Two
  18. 11 - Reacting to the News
  19. 12 - Dreams and the Kindness of Strangers
  20. 13 - Preparations for a Healing
  21. 14 - To Brazil
  22. 15 - Beyond the Ends of the Earth
  23. 16 - Extrememly High-Tech Medicine
  24. 17 - Bone Marrow Summer
  25. 18 - One Hundred Days Plus
  26. 19 - Dancing on the Edge
  27. 20 - Daying Good-bye
  28. 21 - Midwifery Again
  29. 22 - Ashes
  30. 23 - The Grandmother Ceremony
  31. 24 - After Words
  32. Acknowledgments
  33. About the Author

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