by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 16, 2025 | Relationships |
We grow up absorbing many slogans about romantic love, most of which I’ve unpacked on my blog and in my course. Among the most common are: “You will just know when you meet the One.” “Don’t settle.” “If you don’t have...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 1, 2024 | Anxiety |
Our days are filled with moments of choice where have an opportunity to exercise one of our fundamental human gifts: free will. When we choose life-giving actions, we are filled with goodness. When we choose depleting actions, we open the doorway to the next depleting...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 22, 2024 | Highly Sensitive Person |
Highly sensitive people prone to anxiety and OCD often fall into all-or-nothing, black-and-white thinking, which makes it difficult to accept that: • Love and hate about the same person can co-exist. • You can be attracted and not attracted to a romantic partner. •...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 15, 2024 | 9-Month |
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 | Sep 8, 2024 | 9-Month |
From what I can see, change hinges on three variables: Unconditional acceptance of who you are. A deep commitment to your inner work. A supportive guide and/or community to walk you through the portals of healing. We can want to change, but if we’re bogged down...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 1, 2024 | 9-Month |
If there’s one message that runs throughout my work on anxiety it’s this: You are not broken. Anxiety is not evidence of disorder but of exquisite, beautiful sensitivity gone awry. The belief that you’re broken is a core shame belief, and when we can...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 28, 2024 | Relationships |
We are an impatient culture, and our patience is rapidly dwindling. If the email doesn’t arrive within seconds, we wonder what went wrong. If the Amazon package is “delayed”, we check our orders. If the food isn’t delivered within an hour, we...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 14, 2024 | Relationships |
I recently re-read a novel called The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer. I first read it years ago, and loved it, but one of the reasons why I enjoy re-reading books is because we’re never standing in the same spot in the river of life; whatever I gleaned from the...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 1, 2024 | Relationships |
Everest is home for the summer (hooray!). We’ve been having very interesting conversations about life, love, fear, and death. One morning, on our way back from a hike, he was talking about his career path and his hopes to become a Naval aviator, and I said,...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 11, 2024 | Trust Yourself |
This is a common dialogue with my clients and course members: “My wedding is in six months and I’m so scared that I’m making a mistake.” “What scares you about making a mistake?” “Well, of course I don’t want to get...
