by Sheryl Paul | Aug 2, 2020 | Anxiety, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
We live in a culture predicated on one basic assumption: I deserve to have everything I want when I want it. It’s a “me, myself, and I” mindset with widespread ramifications, including the decimation of our planet. We take and take and take without... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 26, 2020 | Open Your Heart |
“Are you in love?” is one of the questions that triggers the maelstrom of relationship anxiety that leads people to my virtual doorstep. Alongside, “Are you with “the One”?, “Are you settling?” and “Do you have enough... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 19, 2020 | Open Your Heart, Relationships |
That shimmering feeling of ease that you’re longing to feel with your partner… That sense of goodness and, dare I say, rightness, you hoped would accompany committed, healthy partnership… Openings in your body and sweetness in your mind…... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 12, 2020 | Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts |
“Just right” anxiety is a common yet rarely discussed anxiety theme wherein the anxiety sufferer tries to attain a “just right” feeling motivated by a sense of incompleteness. Whereas the need for certainly lives at the center of most anxious themes and... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 5, 2020 | Anxiety, Parenthood transitions |
Note: As always with my posts on parenting, if you don’t have kids I encourage to read this through two lenses: 1. As a parent to your own inner child and 2. As a springboard to reflect on how your parents were able to attune or not attune to your sensitive... by Sheryl Paul | Jun 28, 2020 | Uncategorized |
In my early twenties, shortly after my first panic attack unleashed the underworld of everything I had squashed down for the first twenty-one years of my life, I became highly sensitized to every tingle, bump, and ache in my body. At one point, my hyper-focus on a... by Sheryl Paul | Jun 21, 2020 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts |
As I recently wrote about on my blog, I approach what we refer to as obsessions and compulsions (OCD) from a different, more depth-oriented model than is currently seen in psychological culture. Mental obsessions arise from anxiety and compulsions erupt as a misguided... by Sheryl Paul | Jun 14, 2020 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Intrusive Thoughts, Transitions - General |
As a nation, as a world, as individuals, we’re coming unmoored. Our familiar tethers are dissolving. Our anchors are rising to the surface. We’re in a new sea, and it’s a tumultuous one. As I wrote about when covid-19 first hit, we’re in a time... by Sheryl Paul | Jun 7, 2020 | Anxiety |
“Our minds work very hard to make something out of nothing. We can perceive silence as rejection in an instant, and then build a cold castle on that tiny imagined brick. They only release from the tensions we weave around nothing is to remain a creature of the... by Sheryl Paul | May 31, 2020 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships |
We are one body. We are one mind. We are one human family. Whatever inner struggles you’ve endured have been shared by millions of people, not only now but across time. Crossing over the chasms of heartbreak, trying to find your way through the cracks in your...
