by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 21, 2025 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
It’s no secret that amidst the jingle bells and glitter of this season, the holidays are a fiasco for many people, and as they approach there’s an element of dread hanging in the air. It snakes through our days and rattles our nights, and if we don’t...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 28, 2025 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Autumn leaves, the first hints of gold and red. So beautiful. And also painful. The loss of beauty and the beauty of loss. The way beauty and loss are wrapped around each other in this life. Autumn is one of our most visual representations of the passage of time. I’m...
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 | 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,...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 5, 2023 | HSP, Transitions - General |
Our culture sends us the message that we can and should have it all. It tells us that we should “follow our bliss” and have the perfect career, that we should live in the perfect house in the perfect location, have a fantastic group of friends like...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 4, 2018 | 20s, Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person |
While flipping through one of my favorite bedside stand-bys, Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion, I came across the following passage and chuckled out loud: “My experience is that I can feel that I’m in the Grail Castle when...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 27, 2017 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Parenthood transitions, Relationships |
I shared the following client dialogue several weeks ago in a post called The Critical Moment to Break Free From Relationship Anxiety: “What am I trying to escape?” my clients asks. “Your feelings. Not the feelings that are attached to your intrusive thought and which...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 7, 2017 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships, Transitions - General |
At least once a day the phrase “it’s hard being human” enters my brain. It usually arrives on the heels of my sons arguing with each other and me trying to teach them how to communicate more effectively. As a result of feeling hurt, one will lash out...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 24, 2016 | Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Relationships |
Last week, I had the blessed opportunity of having a closure session in person with a beautiful woman with whom I’ve worked for almost six years. As we sat face-t0-face (as opposed to screen-to-screen) and the session’s minutes clicked toward the end of...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 5, 2016 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships, Transitions - General, Wedding/marriage transition |
Life is a series of micro-moments. Most of the time, we’re floating along in the fast-paced current without self-reflection. But inevitably, at some point, we will get snagged on a branch of anxiety or intrusive thoughts, an uncomfortable feeling, an illness, an...
