by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 26, 2025 | Open Your Heart |
Most of us are wired for negativity. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, for it’s the wiring to notice what’s wrong, missing, or askew that has kept our human race alive for thousands of years. As I’ve shared many times, highly sensitive people...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 20, 2022 | 20s, Anxiety, Relationships, Self Trust Collection, Transitions - General, Trust Yourself, Wedding/marriage transition |
Oh, the what-ifs… I’ve received hundreds of queries over the years that reflect some version of the same question: “What if I learn to trust myself and then I realize that my truth is that I have to leave my partner?” or “What if I turn...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 15, 2021 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships, Trust Yourself |
As humans in an uncertain world, we seek certainty in a variety of ways. We ask questions that are fundamentally unanswerable. We ruminate and obsess on a single thought (otherwise known as intrusive thoughts). We Google and text and seek reassurance in a variety of...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 19, 2017 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Dying/Death, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
I recently came across the following in a book called “The Middle Passage” by James Hollis: “What the frightened individual wishes above all is the restoration of the sense of self which once worked. What the therapist knows is that the symptoms are...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 12, 2017 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships, Transitions - General, Wedding/marriage transition |
When you’re neck-deep and soul-soaked in anxiety, when you’re having trouble eating, sleeping, and basically functioning, when the love you formally felt for your partner has been eclipsed by indifference, doubt, or numbness, when intrusive thoughts invade...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 16, 2016 | Anxiety, Trust Yourself |
Over and over again, the feedback I receive from my 30-day course participants is that one of the most impactful and life-changing aspects of my courses is hearing from and connecting with other people who are going through the exact same struggles. Despite the...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 2, 2015 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Intrusive Thoughts, Intrusive Thoughts Collection, Relationships |
There it is, beneath the thoughts, the chatter, the doubt, the irritation, the barriers against love in all of its varied manifestations: the fear of loss, the fear of change, the excruciating awareness that we will, all of us, ultimately, be separated from the ones...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 29, 2015 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Empty Nest, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships, Wedding/marriage transition |
It’s often during this time of year in the Northern hemisphere, when the entire natural world is quivering with a restlessness to birth itself anew, when the animals are shaking the last snowflakes off their backs and the flowers are poking their heads above...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 13, 2013 | Anxiety, Parenthood transitions |
A few nights after Tashi’s initial escape she vanished into the night again. And again, Everest felt terrified and quickly descended into a puddle of panic. This time my husband and I were calm, realizing that Tashi is young and fast and would likely be able to...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 11, 2013 | Anxiety, Relationships |
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream. If you’ve found your way to my site and are reading this it’s likely because you have a dream of love. You have a vision, a deep longing, to grow a...
