by Sheryl Paul | Feb 9, 2020 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Highly Sensitive Person, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Intrusive Thoughts, Parenthood transitions |
There are times when it feels like the walls of the world are caving in, when the windows of psyche slam shut with curtains drawn so tight that no light gets in. The darkness can enfold and leave in a moment, or it can remain for a while. It’s during these times...
by Sheryl Paul | Jun 23, 2019 | Anxiety, Empty Nest, Parenthood transitions |
It was one of those moments that I could have easily pushed aside and continued on through my evening wrapped in the spiderweb of distraction. It was a moment so small that I almost missed the worlds of beauty and pain that lived within it, like a monarch butterfly...
by Sheryl Paul | Jan 13, 2019 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Health anxiety, Parenthood transitions, Relationships |
When addressing anxiety effectively, we must attend to all four realms of self: physical, emotional, cognitive, and soul – or body, heart, mind, and soul. Attending only to one of the four realms is helpful, but it won’t help you heal anxiety from the...
by Sheryl Paul | Nov 25, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Parenthood transitions
For this week’s blog post, I’m directing you to two articles that I recently wrote for MindBodyGreen, one on relationships and one on parenting. Here are the excerpts: The 3 Biggest Mistakes People Make in Relationships Over the nearly two decades that...
by Sheryl Paul | Oct 14, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Parenthood transitions, Relationships |
Perhaps the area of our lives to suffer most from the increasingly fast pace of the culture is love, for the expectation of immediate results naturally leads to a belief that love should not only be easy, but that when there’s a problem, it should be remediated...
by Sheryl Paul | Sep 2, 2018 | Anxiety, Empty Nest, Intrusive Thoughts, Parenthood transitions |
As I shared a few weeks ago, our older son, Everest was planning to solo for the first time in a glider after he turned 14 (the minimum age you can solo). He had been training all summer and had planned to fly the day after his Bar Mitzvah, but the circumstances...
by Sheryl Paul | Aug 5, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Parenthood transitions, Wedding/marriage transition |
Our older son will turn fourteen this week, and as part of the Jewish tradition he will be walking through the rite of passage of a Bar Mitzvah. Given that my husband was raised Catholic and now connects most deeply to Source through art and nature and the fact that...
by Sheryl Paul | Jul 1, 2018 | Parenthood transitions, Pregnancy and Parenting Collections |
He had been waiting for this since he was two years old. For as far back as we can remember, Everest has wanted to fly. Many young kids, especially boys, have a penchant for things that go – trucks, cars, trains, boats – but for Everest it was more than a...
by Sheryl Paul | Jan 28, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Parenthood transitions |
Note: I write about my parenting experiences not only to show by example how to honor deep feelings in children so that those feelings don’t morph into anxiety but also to illustrate what it looks like to tend to our own difficult feelings. If you don’t have...
by Sheryl Paul | Dec 3, 2017 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Parenthood transitions, Pregnancy and Parenting Collections, Transitions - General |
As I’ve written about before on this blog, one of the privileges of being the position of guiding people through the darkest aspects of their psyche and soul is that they share thoughts and feelings with me that they wouldn’t share with anyone else. Part...
