by Sheryl Paul | Aug 2, 2020 | Anxiety, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
We live in a culture predicated on one basic assumption: I deserve to have everything I want when I want it. It’s a “me, myself, and I” mindset with widespread ramifications, including the decimation of our planet. We take and take and take without... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 26, 2020 | Open Your Heart |
“Are you in love?” is one of the questions that triggers the maelstrom of relationship anxiety that leads people to my virtual doorstep. Alongside, “Are you with “the One”?, “Are you settling?” and “Do you have enough... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 19, 2020 | Open Your Heart, Relationships |
That shimmering feeling of ease that you’re longing to feel with your partner… That sense of goodness and, dare I say, rightness, you hoped would accompany committed, healthy partnership… Openings in your body and sweetness in your mind…... by Sheryl Paul | Feb 23, 2020 | Anxiety, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
We’ve all been sold the same bill of goods: Real love is infatuation. Real love is a drug-like feeling that sweeps you off your feet. Real love is the elixir that lifts you out of the pain of life. When you’re really in love, you’ll just... by Sheryl Paul | Feb 16, 2020 | Anxiety, Open Your Heart |
I receive the below question so frequently that I decided it’s time to address it clearly in a post. This version was left as a comment on my blog several months ago: Isn’t there such a thing as a bad match between partners, even if neither of them has red... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 28, 2019 | Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
Once again, I turn to the poet and mystic Mark Nepo and The Book of Awakening for gems of wisdom about the stones that block our hearts from fully loving: “It seems this is the never-ending work of relationship, each of us in our own time and way moving the... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 21, 2019 | Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
Our culture worships the gods of youth and eternal happiness. If we could bottle and merchandize the elixir of youth, most people in the Western world would purchase it no matter the price. We extol the blemish-and-wrinkle-free face and lay ourselves prostrate at the... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 14, 2019 | Open Your Heart, Relationships |
What would it be like to throw yourself full-bodied and without restraint into love’s arms, to set the fear voices and inherited scripts that say, “Love isn’t safe” on the fence of your mind and walk through the tattered gates of your heart... by Sheryl Paul | Feb 24, 2019 | Open Your Heart |
To listen to this post as an MP3, click below: “We are all made up of yearning and light, searching for a way out, afraid we will be shut in or cut off or repelled back into the ground from which we are reaching. This is enough to begin: To know, before... by Sheryl Paul | Feb 17, 2019 | Open Your Heart |
This comment on one of my recent blog posts speaks to the very heart of my work on love and attraction: Sheryl’s right – attraction CAN be grown! My husband has the qualities mentioned in today’s post in spades(!) + more… and that’s what...
