by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 17, 2024 | Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships |
After twenty-five years of working with the theme of relationship anxiety, it’s still the most common way that people find their way to my work. Luckily, I’m still endlessly fascinated by the underlying drivers of this particular anxiety theme, as well as... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 28, 2024 | Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationship Anxiety Collection, Relationships |
Many of you found your way to my work through the portal of relationship anxiety, and because you were able to work through enough of your anxiety to say yes to your partner, you’re now 5 or 10 or 20 years into your marriage. Some of you have children. Others... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Apr 9, 2023 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships |
It seems we have forgotten one essential truth about love. We’re told that love should only feel like love, which means good and pristine and holy and alive and erotic – and, most of all, certain. We’re raised to believe that romantic love is the... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 19, 2023 | Alanis Morissette, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships |
Many of you have found your way to my work through the portal of relationship anxiety. From there, we’ve traveled into deeper realms together, including health anxiety, friendship anxiety, parenting anxiety, career anxiety, and generalized anxiety – but... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 12, 2023 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships |
I was playing a game of solitaire the other night and a memory from childhood floated up to consciousness, followed by a wave of grief. I paused the game and breathed deeply into my heart, allowing tears to arrive and roll down my cheeks. As always with big grief,... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 5, 2023 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships |
Note: You can watch a video version of this topic here. If you were drowning in the churning waters of relationship anxiety and I held out a rope and said, “Grab hold! This rope will teach you how to lift yourself out of the currents of your suffering. It asks... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 28, 2022 | 9-Month, Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships, Trust Yourself |
As much as you want to change and heal, as much as you long to feel more fullness, aliveness, calm, and well-being, as much as you deeply desire a way to navigate life with more ease and less attachment to control, as much as you ache to break free from your intrusive... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 22, 2022 | Relationships
There’s no such thing as a perfect parent. We enter parenthood with wounds and imperfections that will invariably influence our children in some way, The role of parent is not to parent perfectly but to have enough self-awareness and humility to recognize our... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 15, 2022 | Anxiety, Mother Wound, Parenthood transitions, Relationships |
This is what I can tell you about the mother wound. I can tell you about mother-longing. I can tell you that we never stop longing for a mother to… … feed us. … take care of us. … nurture us in just the right way: not too much and not too... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 1, 2022 | Anxiety, Relationships, Trust Yourself |
As I’ve sat in the seat of guide and mentor over the last twenty-five years, I’ve been privileged to be invited into the deepest recesses of psyche where archetypal material – the pain, wounds, joys, thoughts, compulsions, and anxiety common to all...