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 | Aug 25, 2024 | OCD |
OCD says: “I have to be morally perfect.” Compassionate mind responds: “What would it be like to let yourself be “bad” once in a while, which is actually being human?” The Good, The Bad, The Beautiful, and the Ugly Highly sensitive people and those with OCD are...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 18, 2024 | OCD |
Rest is good AND we are meant to move. Rest is important AND we are meant to work. Rest is essential AND we are meant to be productive. Rest is delicious AND we are meant to be active. There’s been a lot going on in the world these last several years. Humans have been...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 4, 2024 | Anxiety |
There is always going to be something incomplete in this life. There are going to be times of fullness, and many more times of emptiness, boredom, restlessness, and the sense that something is wrong. Some people seek to fill the emptiness through alcohol, drugs, sex,...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 10, 2023 | Transitions - General |
We are approaching the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern hemisphere. In this week’s Gathering Gold episode, and in preparation for the winter solstice, I invite us to anchor ourselves in time and find communion with the luminous dark....
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 10, 2023 | Anxiety |
There is a lot of heartache in our world, and the smaller the world becomes, the more aware we are of the pain that exists in every corner. Of course, the news loves to report on this pain much more than it reports on the goodness that abounds, but the fact remains...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 27, 2023 | 9-Month |
We’re living in an extraordinary time on our planet: a time of extraordinary groundlessness and also extraordinary possibility. In our 24/7 media culture designed to light up the amygdala’s fear response, it’s easy to only see the world’s tremulous pain right now, and...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 13, 2023 | 9-Month |
Years ago, I wrote a post called You Are Loved, which I then recorded and included in several of my courses (and on this page). The post begins: If you knew you were fully loved, if you knew that you were whole and worthy exactly as you are just for being...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jun 18, 2023 | Intrusive Thoughts |
I define spiritual practice as anything that helps us feel connected to the whole, to a sense of belonging, to something bigger than ourselves. This could be a nature practice, a yoga practice, a poetry practice, a prayer practice, a meditation practice, working with...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 20, 2023 | OCD |
As many of you know, my work is informed by a fervent desire to delve into the root causes of anxiety and OCD. My book, The Wisdom of Anxiety, explored many of the roots and messages embedded in anxiety and intrusive thoughts, but there are more. There is always more,...
