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

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2013

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781938314476

Related ISBNs:

9781938314469

Publisher:

She Writes Press

Date of Addition:

08/02/24

Copyrighted By:

Sheila K Collins, PhD

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Parenting and Family, Psychology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.