by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Dec 24, 2021 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Victoria and I are excited to share this podcast episode on Winter’s Paradox with you on Christmas Eve. ♥️♥️♥️ Winter is a season of contrasts. In the long dark nights, candles burn more brightly. Amidst the cold, we find ways to generate heat. And in the... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Nov 21, 2021 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, HSP
As we descend into the holiday season, I’m sending you these past posts and a webinar with hopes that they’ll offer support and comfort for whatever may arise during this charged time: loneliness, sadness, grief, joy, excitement, fear, dread,... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Nov 7, 2021 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
I’ve written a birthday blog post almost every year since I started this blog in 2009. I wrote about entering my 40s here, and in today’s very special Gathering Gold episode, Victoria and I reflect on aging as I cross the threshold into the next decade of life:... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Oct 17, 2021 | Highly Sensitive Person, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Every autumn, I hear an upsurge of anxiety, grief, longing, groundlessness, and joy among my highly sensitive population. Sometimes it will sound like this: “I’ve been feeling more anxiety lately and I’m not sure why.” Me: “Well, we... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Aug 1, 2021 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
“I hear crickets,” my son says as we pull into the driveway. We pause to look up at the stars, as we always do, before entering the house. “Yes, I heard them for the first time a couple of nights ago,” I respond. “Oh,” he says, with... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Jun 27, 2021 | 20s, Aging, Holidays and Seasons Collections, Highly Sensitive Person, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Episode 5 of the Gathering Gold podcast is now available and, like peaches and watermelon, it’s a juicy one! In this episode, we’re talking about summer, the season of “nothing lasts forever.” We talk about the gifts and opportunities that lie waiting in this... 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 | Nov 22, 2020 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
For highly sensitive people, the holidays can be challenging. As I’ve written in several posts, including here, and talked about in the free webinar called “How to Maintain Your Sanity During the Holidays” (you can access it at the bottom of this... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | 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 Paul | May 10, 2020 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Much of my work is devoted to exploding the constrictive boundaries that define our modern life. I explode our definitions of romantic love from the limited understanding that love is only “a feeling” or “a knowing” into a much broader conceptualization that...
