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 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 7, 2024 | Anxiety |
“When there’s something big for me to get, it comes through the messenger of the god Pan; he is the deliverer… “Whatever lives in our particular chemistry, wiring, history, trauma that causes deep, important lessons to show up in a variety of ways...
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 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 | Sep 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
Underneath anxiety is a lack of safety. And underneath a lack of safety is a lack of trust. Said in reverse: When we trust, we feel safe. And when we feel safe, anxiety quiets down. But, oh, how challenging it can be to trust! Worry is a Buzzkill When Everest turned...
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 | Jul 2, 2023 | OCD |
I recently listened to one of the most extraordinary podcast interviews I’ve ever heard. I walked with her words in my ear and my heart blown wide open by the soul of someone I can only call a true mystic of our times: Andrea Gibson. There were so many parts...
