by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 18, 2025 | Divorce/Calling it Off/Break Up |
It’s an inevitable and heartbreaking fact that some friendships seem to have a finite lifespan. (If you struggle with relationship anxiety, please see the note at the bottom of this article!) There are friends that you know will see you through every transition...
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 | Jun 4, 2023 | HSP, Intrusive Thoughts, OCD |
I’ve mentioned in a few places that I was plunged into a spiritual descent this past winter, initiated in a way I haven’t experienced in a long time. The details of the experience ask to remain mostly private, but what I will share is that it was...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 27, 2022 | Intrusive Thoughts, Parenthood transitions |
Ever since our son, Everest, earned his private pilot’s power-plane license a few months ago I’ve been wanting to fly with him. Maybe “wanting” isn’t quite the right word; it’s more like I’ve been wanting to want to fly with...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 10, 2015 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Parenthood transitions |
As my son approached his eleventh birthday, I found myself sounding like those women who used to stop me on the street as I was walking with my newborn so many years ago: “Oh, sweetheart, what a beautiful baby! It goes by so quickly. Soak in every minute of it....
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 1, 2015 | 20s, Anxiety, Anxiety Collection, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships |
On the other side of anxiety lives serenity. When you walk into the forest and face the fear-vines of your mind – swashbuckling at first then sitting down in the glade and simply watching – you eventually unfold into an open field. You cannot know this...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 9, 2013 | Anxiety, Parenthood transitions, Relationships |
One of the first questions I ask a new client who’s struggling with relationship anxiety is, “Did you have anxiety as a child?” It’s no longer surprising to me when the client says no because I can almost guarantee that she’ll answer...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Apr 13, 2012 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Parenthood transitions |
I don’t know why some people experience the pain and loss of transitions and milestones more than others. Perhaps it’s an inborn personality trait; perhaps it’s connected to childbirth or postnatal trauma where babies were separated from their...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Apr 11, 2012 | Anxiety, Wedding/marriage transition |
Two of my dearest friends, Carrie Dinow and Jonathan Nadlman (wife and husband), just launched the first segment of their 13-week radio show last week. The show is called, “He Said, She Said” and is, in their words, “an invitation and a dare to dive...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 22, 2011 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
It’s the cold pocket encased in the tail-end husks of a warm summer breeze. It’s the trickle of creek after the fertile rush of spring’s runoff. It’s the fading light at the end of a golden afternoon. These are the signposts that say,...
