by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 6, 2026 | 9-Month |
Small talk, chit-chat, sports and weather conversations… these aren’t what float the boat of people who find their way here. We swim in deep waters. We thrive on conversations that plumb the depths of the human experience. We want to talk about what is...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 19, 2026 | The Community Garden |
I’m overjoyed to share this beautiful piece of writing from Zoe, one of our long-time Patreon members. Zoe shared this in our recent summer solstice Gathering Gold Zoom meeting, and I was so touched by it that I asked if she’d be willing to plant it in our...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 6, 2025 | Joy |
For those of you familiar with my work, you know that I am deeply interested in helping people heal at the root. Whether we’re struggling with relationship anxiety, health anxiety, money anxiety, world anxiety, or any other form of anxiety, when we’re able to...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 27, 2024 | Anxiety |
There are times when it feels like the earth is quaking beneath our feet. This might be when we’re enduring a personal challenge or transition, it might when we’re drowning in the cesspool of intrusive thoughts, and it might be when the global uncertainty...
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 | 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 | Sep 23, 2018 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts, Loss and Uncertainty Collection, Relationships |
At the core of anxiety – whether health anxiety, death anxiety, relationship anxiety, or generalized anxiety – is the need for safety. As I’ve been writing about in my last few posts, left to our own unguided minds, the ego will latch onto our...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 16, 2018 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Health anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts |
The Google search terms “how do you know if you’re in love” or “not in love with my partner” are some of the most common ways that people find their way to my work. Because our culture has sold us the bill of goods that romantic love is...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 9, 2018 | Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts, Loss and Uncertainty Collection, Relationships |
“Whether through birds in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your face the moment you are questioning your worth, the quiet teachers are everywhere. When we think we are in charge, their lessons dissolve as accidents or...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 26, 2018 | Anxiety, Health anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Loss and Uncertainty Collection, Relationships |
As highly sensitive people we’re physiologically wired to look for what’s wrong or amiss. While this hypervigilence once served us and our community extremely well when we were living in the outback or jungle and we were the first to scan the horizon to...
