by Sheryl Paul | Jan 12, 2020 | HSP, Transitions - General |
This is a story about what happens when we forget to make room for grief around transitions. It’s a story that illuminates the heart of a highly sensitive person, and how easy it is to overlook and minimize the tenderness of our hearts. It’s a story of...
by Sheryl Paul | Apr 22, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Relationships, Trust Yourself |
“The final stage of healing is using what happens to you to help other people. That is healing in itself.” – Gloria Steinem “Why me?” people often ask when they’re dragged into the underworld of anxiety in any form. “Why do...
by Sheryl Paul | Jan 21, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationship Anxiety Collection, Relationships |
Among the many questions that dart through the mind plagued by relationship anxiety, the one that can cause either hope or despair is, “Will this anxiety ever end? The short answer is yes: the acute anxiety that you’re experiencing – the one that...
by Sheryl Paul | Oct 22, 2017 | 20s, Aging, Holidays and Seasons Collections, Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, HSP, Intrusive Thoughts, Parenthood transitions, Relationships |
We hear and read a lot of fear these days in psychological and spiritual circles. Mostly, fear is painted in a negative way as the energy that we have to wrestle with and overcome in order to live a life of joy. Most of the statements and quotes we read about fear pin...
by Sheryl Paul | Aug 13, 2017 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, HSP, Open Your Heart, Uncategorized |
There have been countless times over the many years of my marriage when my husband will say something that makes me feel loved or do something that gets us back on track when we’ve been in a negative feedback loop and I’ll think, “Oh, so that’s...
by Sheryl Paul | Aug 6, 2017 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
In response to one of the assignments in my Sacred Sexuality course to watch the film “Enchanted April”, a member of the forum shared the following. I was so moved by her response that I asked permission to share it here. She wrote: This film touched...
by Sheryl Paul | Jul 30, 2017 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Relationship Anxiety Collection, Relationships, Transitions - General |
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl If we could slow life down to micro-moments, if we could literally alter time...
by Sheryl Paul | Jul 9, 2017 | 20s, Aging, Holidays and Seasons Collections, Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, HSP, Parenthood transitions, Relationships, Wedding/marriage transition |
It’s the season of the fallen flower. It’s the season of heat when the rising temperatures cause the petals, so vibrant and alive just a few weeks ago, to wilt. It’s the season of paradox: we bask in summer light and longer days yet the hands of...
by Sheryl Paul | Feb 21, 2016 | 20s, Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Open Your Heart |
It’s 2:20 am. We’re on a red-eye flight on our way back from a family vacation when the captain announces, in a very calm but urgent voice, that all passengers must fasten their seatbelt. Nearly everyone is asleep anyway. For the past three hours...
by Sheryl Paul | Dec 27, 2015 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Intrusive Thoughts, Trust Yourself |
When you live by your North Star, you care less about what other people think. When live by your North Star, you rely on the well of wisdom inside to help you make decisions both big and small. When you live by your North Star, you have a clear sense of direction that...
