by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 26, 2023 | Empty Nest, Parenthood transitions |
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I experienced a horrible/wonderful descent and initiation this past winter. There were many layers to the process (which I documented through hundreds of pages of journaling and may share more fully at some point), but for... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 17, 2021 | Anxiety, Empty Nest, Intrusive Thoughts, Parenthood transitions |
I was driving into town one evening last week and as I drove down our local highway I flashed on a time over twenty years ago when I drove from Los Angeles to San Diego. As my body sank into the somatic memory, a wave of nostalgia surged up that said, “I miss... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 10, 2021 | 20s, Anxiety, Divorce/Calling it Off/Break Up, Empty Nest, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts, Job/Career Change, Relationships, Transitions - General |
Piggybacking off the post I shared a few weeks ago, I wanted to expand upon the statement that there are many ways to heal. What I see in the field of psychotherapy, as I see in many other fields and areas in our lives, is that at we’ve divided the mind, body,... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 1, 2020 | Anxiety, Empty Nest, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
I’ve shared a birthday post almost every year that I’ve run this blog (this is the first one I wrote ten years ago). I typically write a few days before my birthday both to mark time and also to share with you, my highly sensitive audience prone to anxiety, what it... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 11, 2020 | Anxiety, Empty Nest, Parenthood transitions, Relationships, Transitions - General |
We’ve arrived at the end of a cycle in our family’s life. An essential and positive end, but an end nonetheless. And if there’s anything I’ve learned about endings in my nearly forty-nine years on this planet, it’s that they need to be... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jun 23, 2019 | Anxiety, Empty Nest, Parenthood transitions |
It was one of those moments that I could have easily pushed aside and continued on through my evening wrapped in the spiderweb of distraction. It was a moment so small that I almost missed the worlds of beauty and pain that lived within it, like a monarch butterfly... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 2, 2018 | Anxiety, Empty Nest, Intrusive Thoughts, Parenthood transitions |
As I shared a few weeks ago, our older son, Everest was planning to solo for the first time in a glider after he turned 14 (the minimum age you can solo). He had been training all summer and had planned to fly the day after his Bar Mitzvah, but the circumstances... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 29, 2015 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Empty Nest, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships, Wedding/marriage transition |
It’s often during this time of year in the Northern hemisphere, when the entire natural world is quivering with a restlessness to birth itself anew, when the animals are shaking the last snowflakes off their backs and the flowers are poking their heads above... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 21, 2013 | Anxiety, Empty Nest, Transitions - General, Wedding/marriage transition |
We are born divinely alive and fully awake to the richness of being human; there is no such thing as an empty baby. Babies cry when they’re sad and laugh when they’re happy. They scream if their needs aren’t met and they scrunch up their faces in... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 27, 2011 | Empty Nest, Guest post, Parenthood transitions |
Natalie and I met in the comments section of one of my posts on MariaShriver.com, where she mentioned her work with empty nest. It’s so rare that I meet other professionals who focus on transitions that I immediately and excitedly contacted her via email and, as...