by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 7, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships |
“Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to ‘take in’ the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.” – May Sarton, Journal...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 14, 2015 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Intrusive Thoughts |
Given the terrifying unraveling of events in our world recently, it’s not surprising that many of my clients have spent a portion of their sessions talking about their fear, sadness, powerlessness, and hopelessness. As my clients, course members, and readers are...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 22, 2015 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Intrusive Thoughts |
If you’re like most people, there’s probably an element of pain, dread and/or overwhelm as we enter the holiday season. The rush to consume, the pressure to feel joyful, and the expectation of experiencing perfect familial bliss set against a Normal...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 22, 2014 | Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Relationships |
There’s a vulnerability on the planet during the holiday season. I see it in people’s faces: beneath the stress and tightness and frantic pace lives the softness of an open heart, as if the emissaries of grief travel from broken heart to eyes and softening...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 23, 2014 | 20s, Anxiety, Dying/Death, Relationships |
As my dear friend drove our two families up to Walker Ranch for their quarterly homestead day a few weeks ago, I looked in the backseat at our three sweet and precious boys. Their faces were alive with excitement at the prospect of “going back in time,” as...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 10, 2010 | Parenthood transitions |
As I was writing the following blog, I remembered an article I wrote a couple of years ago about sleep. Click below to read the full article: December 2008 I can only imagine how different parenting would feel if I viewed it as a prison instead of a privilege....
