by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Jul 10, 2022 | Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Shame |
I’m endlessly fascinated by our inner world, and have been called to this path of helping highly sensitive people who struggle with intrusive thoughts to heal at the root. As always with inner exploration, it’s a never-ending process of discovery; just... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Jul 3, 2022 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts |
June 29th, 2022 It’s 4:30am. My alarm is set for 5:00 but my body-psyche always knows when my son is going to fly early and I wake up well before my alarm goes off; it’s that built-in mom alarm that knows almost everything about our children. Everest has been training... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Jun 26, 2022 | Anxiety, Health anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts |
Anxiety insists, “You don’t love your partner!” Anxiety declares, “You have a terminal illness!” Anxiety whispers, “You’re going to hurt your baby.” (Anxiety doesn’t always yell; sometimes it’s a quiet,... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Jun 12, 2022 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person |
2022 update on this post: This morning our younger son, who is 13 years, old told me about a headline he read on Apple news about the weather. We’re having a very hot week here in the Denver/Boulder area and the headline caught his eye because it mentioned... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Jun 5, 2022 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person |
At the intersection of global pain, midlife, children not so little anymore, work and marriage and friendship in more flow than blockage (for which I’m endlessly grateful), I find myself drawn more to slowness, to spaciousness, to real life and local... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | May 29, 2022 | Anxiety |
When the world‘s heart shatters again and again and again, I find myself carrying the tears in the cups of my hands, palms upturned like a lotus flower floating on a lake. It’s a serene image, much too serene for the horrors that continue to befall our world, that... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | May 15, 2022 | Anxiety, Mother Wound, Parenthood transitions, Relationships |
This is what I can tell you about the mother wound. I can tell you about mother-longing. I can tell you that we never stop longing for a mother to… … feed us. … take care of us. … nurture us in just the right way: not too much and not too... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | May 1, 2022 | Anxiety, Relationships, Trust Yourself |
As I’ve sat in the seat of guide and mentor over the last twenty-five years, I’ve been privileged to be invited into the deepest recesses of psyche where archetypal material – the pain, wounds, joys, thoughts, compulsions, and anxiety common to all... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Apr 24, 2022 | Anxiety |
The winds are blowing… again. It’s dry and hot… too hot and dry for April. We need rain. We needed moisture desperately in December before the fires blew through South Boulder. My heart aches every day for my friends who lost their homes. There was a... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Apr 3, 2022 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships |
Are you looking for the magic pill to free you from relationship anxiety? Are you hoping that you’ll read an Instagram post or see a Tik-Tok video and the pieces of confusion about your relationship will instantly fall into place and in one fantastic movie...
