by Sheryl Paul | Feb 7, 2019 | Intrusive Thoughts, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
Anxious people aren’t typically the most easy-going people on the planet. Because our high sensitivity wires us for hypervigilance, which then causes us to scan the horizon for danger, we’re physiologically primed to have a more tightly-wound nervous... by Sheryl Paul | Aug 12, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
There comes a time in a relationship when, if you’ve done your inner work, you see beyond all externals into the essence of a human being. Clients who are struggling with the attraction spike often ask me, “I’m constantly checking to see if I’m... by Sheryl Paul | Jul 29, 2018 | Anxiety, Lack of Attraction Collection, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
Love is a verb. This is one of the great truths about love that our culture fails to teach, one that, even when we understand the principle, we need to remember it and practice it over and over again. I think of marriage or any long-term, committed relationship with a... by Sheryl Paul | Mar 4, 2018 | Anxiety, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
It happens in an instant: your partner comes to you for a kiss or sends a flirty text and your body tightens and recoils. Your habitual, culturally-conditioned mind interprets your physical response as “truth”: “This is my body’s way of telling... by Sheryl Paul | Feb 25, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
When the fear-fog clears, when the projection that has kept him separate from you and sealed a barnacle over your heart finally shatters, you see your partner as if for the first time. Not only do you see her clearly, in all of her sweet and simple splendor, but the... by Sheryl Paul | Feb 18, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Lack of Attraction Collection, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
Among the many misconceptions that people have about love – that it’s only a feeling, that the feeling of being “in love” should exist from day one, that attraction is static and based on external attributes – the faulty belief that... by Sheryl Paul | Aug 20, 2017 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
We long for rapture. We long to be transported to an otherworldly place where the problems that weigh heavily into our souls and the pain that pierces our hearts lift away, if only for a moment. We long to feel profoundly alive and deeply fulfilled. We long for... 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 | Mar 12, 2017 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Open Your Heart, Relationship Anxiety Collection, Relationships |
There are so many ways the ego tries to dismantle real love, and it’s favorite is to perseverate on a single question until it tires itself out, then jump to the next story. I’ve dissected many of these questions on this blog and in my courses, approaching...
