by Sheryl Paul | Mar 10, 2019 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships |
The relationship anxiety spike, “My partner is too silly” appears often in my work. On the surface this sounds like, “I feel annoyed when my partner is silly.” However, as I walk alongside my clients while they deconstruct what’s embedded... by Sheryl Paul | Mar 3, 2019 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships |
When I was seven years old, my favorite Justice League superheroes were the Wonder Twins. I loved that their magic rings would activate their superpowers. I loved that one shining moment when they locked rings and were transformed into their magical animal and water... 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 | 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 | Dec 30, 2018 | Relationships, Sexuality |
If you’re familiar with relationship anxiety, you know that it doesn’t take much for a flyaway thought to send you into a tailspin of anxiety that then leads you to question if you’re with the right person. This thought could be, “I’m not... by Sheryl Paul | Dec 9, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships |
A few weeks ago, as I was cleaning out our closet, I stumbled upon a stack of papers from my grandmother. Most of the papers were familiar, but one unfamiliar packet literally dropped onto my lap, a stapled report for an adult-education class in psychology that she... by Sheryl Paul | Nov 18, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships |
People often ask me why they’re struggling with relationship anxiety or social anxiety or any other kind of anxiety when other people seem to glide through life more effortlessly. The subtext embedded in the question is, “Is there something wrong with... by Sheryl Paul | Oct 21, 2018 | Anxiety, Relationships, Trust Yourself |
“One of the big traps we have in the West is our intelligence, because we want to know what we know. Freedom allows you to be wise, but you cannot know wisdom. You must be wisdom… The intellect is a beautiful servant, but a terrible master. Intellect is... 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 | Oct 7, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships |
“Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to ‘take in’ the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.” – May Sarton, Journal...
