by Sheryl Paul | Oct 27, 2019 | Anxiety, Trust Yourself |
“Much of our anxiety and inner turmoil comes from living in a global culture whose values drive us from the essence of what matters. At the heart of this is the conflict between the outer definition of success and the inner value of peace. “Unfortunately,...
by Sheryl Paul | Oct 20, 2019 | Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts |
Intrusive thoughts can be nothing short of torture. They enter on fear’s tail, flicking themselves into the mind like a flame cast from fear’s cauldron, and if you don’t have enough water in your well of Self, you’ll quickly find yourself...
by Sheryl Paul | Oct 13, 2019 | Anxiety |
In myths and fairy tales, the banished characters are shadow aspects who represent the inner characters we would like to sequester away in a cloistral tower or banish to the middle of the forest: the virginal maiden representing forbidden chastity, the unattractive...
by Sheryl Paul | Oct 6, 2019 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Trust Yourself |
Reparenting is the process of healing through which we access and grow a loving inner parent that can repair the wounds that were left from being raised by caregivers who were incapable of teaching us the fundamental skills and habits necessary for well-being: how to...
by Sheryl Paul | Sep 29, 2019 | Anxiety |
A theme has been constellating lately in my professional and personal worlds, and when I see a theme I’m compelled to write about it here as it’s my indicator that we’re tapping down into the realm of the collective unconscious: the invisible realm where we’re all...
by Sheryl Paul | Sep 22, 2019 | Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts |
One of the many challenges of working with intrusive thoughts is that there’s often a grain of truth embedded inside the obsession. If we feed that grain by watering it with our attention, it grows into an unwanted weed of mythic proportions, taking over our...
by Sheryl Paul | Sep 15, 2019 | Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships |
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom,” said Kierkegaard as quoted by Mark Nepo, who continues with, “The truth is that every fresh experience has this dizziness of freedom that we have to move through. Every time we reach beyond what is familiar,...
by Sheryl Paul | Sep 8, 2019 | Anxiety, Trust Yourself |
As much as you want to change and heal, as much as you long to feel more fullness, aliveness, calm, and well-being, as much as you deeply desire a way to navigate life with more ease and less attachment to control, there is another part of you that resists the actions...
by Sheryl Paul | Sep 1, 2019 | Anxiety |
One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “How come other people don’t suffer in this way?” It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about relationship anxiety, friendship anxiety, social anxiety, or any other hook that anxiety hangs...
by Sheryl Paul | Aug 25, 2019 | Anxiety |
We spend at least fifteen years in school learning the skills that our culture has deemed essential for a certain type of success in the world. We learn how to read. We learn the basics of math. We learn how to write. If we’re lucky, there’s some art and...
