by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Jan 22, 2023 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts |
At the core of most, if not all, intrusive thoughts and obsessions is the question of enough. It can show up as: • Do I love my partner enough? or • Did I wash my hands enough? But what you’re really trying to answer is: Am I enough? I love what Jon Hershfield... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Dec 11, 2022 | Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts |
An intrusive or unwanted thought arrives… What if I don’t love my partner enough? What if I’m a different sexual orientation than I thought I was? What if I’m trapped here forever? What if the world ends? What if I don’t love my baby?... 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 19, 2022 | Dying/Death, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts |
If there was ever a time to grow practices that help us become more comfortable with uncertainty, it’s now. As we stand on this threshold of transition in our human and global history, we all feel the teetering, the crumbling of what we’ve known as we... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Oct 3, 2021 | Anxiety, Health anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships, Trust Yourself |
I’m touching down into another layer of self-trust, listening closely to my Yeses and Nos, to the signals in my inner landscapes that let me know which aqueduct valves to close so that the underground waters are redirected from elements of outward service to... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Jun 13, 2021 | Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts |
Highly sensitive people are highly aware of the state of our worlds, both inner and outer. As such, when it feels like things are falling apart – as it’s felt like for a while but has been amplified and accelerated since covid began last year – we... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | May 30, 2021 | Anxiety, Health anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, HSP, Intrusive Thoughts |
Our older son is off today on another adventure, this time one that requires traveling by air. Those of you who have been following me for a while know that Everest is an aviator, got his pilot’s license at 16, and literally lives for aviation and space, so... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Apr 11, 2021 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Parenthood transitions |
It’s Saturday night. I feel something tighten around my throat, around my soul. I don’t name it right away, slipping into the amnesia of “everything’s fine” and forgetting to slow down enough to notice the wisdom of my body, the... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | 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,...
