by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 9, 2025 | OCD |
One of my favorite parts of parenting is being exposed to ideas and activities that would have never crossed my path unless we followed our kids’ interests. I’ve read thousands of pages about space because of our older son’s interest in it. We have...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 24, 2024 | OCD |
Life can be uncomfortable. Life can be imperfect. Life can be imbalanced, which often leads to feeling off-kilter. Life can be disorienting. Life can be messy, dirty, and disorganized. There are moments or times when brain synapses and the alchemical mysteries align...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 25, 2024 | OCD |
OCD says: “I have to be morally perfect.” Compassionate mind responds: “What would it be like to let yourself be “bad” once in a while, which is actually being human?” The Good, The Bad, The Beautiful, and the Ugly Highly sensitive people and those with OCD are...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 18, 2024 | OCD |
Rest is good AND we are meant to move. Rest is important AND we are meant to work. Rest is essential AND we are meant to be productive. Rest is delicious AND we are meant to be active. There’s been a lot going on in the world these last several years. Humans have been...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 2, 2023 | OCD |
I recently listened to one of the most extraordinary podcast interviews I’ve ever heard. I walked with her words in my ear and my heart blown wide open by the soul of someone I can only call a true mystic of our times: Andrea Gibson. There were so many parts...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jun 11, 2023 | OCD |
My clients are often bewildered about why they struggle with anxiety given how loving their original family was, and is. “I don’t understand why I have anxiety when my parents were always there for me,” they wonder. Of course, being...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jun 4, 2023 | HSP, Intrusive Thoughts, OCD |
I’ve mentioned in a few places that I was plunged into a spiritual descent this past winter, initiated in a way I haven’t experienced in a long time. The details of the experience ask to remain mostly private, but what I will share is that it was...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 28, 2023 | OCD |
As I wrote about recently, at the core of anxiety and OCD lives the fear of death: either literal death or social death (humiliation, being shunned, rejected, losing your place of belonging). If we’re going to address anxiety at the root, we have to talk about...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 20, 2023 | OCD |
As many of you know, my work is informed by a fervent desire to delve into the root causes of anxiety and OCD. My book, The Wisdom of Anxiety, explored many of the roots and messages embedded in anxiety and intrusive thoughts, but there are more. There is always more,...
