by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 5, 2025 | Anxiety |
“Nostalgia is denial – denial of the painful present… The present is a little unsatisfying because life is a little unsatisfying.” – Midnight in Paris We just returned from nearly two weeks of traveling abroad. It was a rich, meaningful...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 15, 2024 | Anxiety |
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau This quote stopped me in my tracks when I came across it a few weeks ago. It hit me in my heart, and then my mind stepped in to ask, “Why would love need a remedy?...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 1, 2024 | Anxiety |
Our days are filled with moments of choice where have an opportunity to exercise one of our fundamental human gifts: free will. When we choose life-giving actions, we are filled with goodness. When we choose depleting actions, we open the doorway to the next depleting...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 3, 2024 | 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 Lisa Finn | Oct 27, 2024 | Anxiety |
There are times when it feels like the earth is quaking beneath our feet. This might be when we’re enduring a personal challenge or transition, it might when we’re drowning in the cesspool of intrusive thoughts, and it might be when the global uncertainty...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 20, 2024 | Anxiety |
There are times when our regular spiritual practices – by which I mean practices that are personal, meaningful and help us connect to the calm center at our core amidst life’s uncertainties – are non-negotiable. These might be times when we’ve...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 13, 2024 | Anxiety |
As is often the case when it comes to mainstream media, I’m a little late to the party. For months, people in my community have been telling me that I needed to see Inside-Out 2, and, while it was high on my list, it took me a while to get there. But at last we...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 7, 2024 | Anxiety |
“When there’s something big for me to get, it comes through the messenger of the god Pan; he is the deliverer… “Whatever lives in our particular chemistry, wiring, history, trauma that causes deep, important lessons to show up in a variety of ways...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jun 23, 2024 | Anxiety |
Most men are lonely, dissatisfied, bored, and full of shame. Does that sound like an extreme statement? It might be extreme, but it’s true. We’ve heard a lot about women’s struggles under patriarchal systems in recent years, but since having sons,...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 19, 2024 | Anxiety, Getting Married Collections, Relationship Anxiety Collection, Relationships, Wedding/marriage transition |
2024 update: This post was originally published in 2013 and addressed one of the most common spikes for those struggling with relationship anxiety: Can I make it work with anyone? An offshoot of this spike is: What if we’re just a bad match? When people find...
