by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 26, 2026 | Relationships |
My name is Joshua Seigal. I am professional poet, based in London, UK. I am currently very happily married. My wife and I have been together for eleven years, and married for eight. I have had Relationship Anxiety (AKA ROCD) in every romantic relationship I have ever...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jun 28, 2026 | Relationships |
When my husband and I started watching The Four Seasons television series, we laughed at the following scene between husband and wife Jack and Kate where Jack is making a toast to their friends who have been married for 25 years. Jack: It is rare in this life to find...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 16, 2025 | Relationships |
We grow up absorbing many slogans about romantic love, most of which I’ve unpacked on my blog and in my course. Among the most common are: “You will just know when you meet the One.” “Don’t settle.” “If you don’t have...
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 14, 2024 | Relationships |
I recently re-read a novel called The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer. I first read it years ago, and loved it, but one of the reasons why I enjoy re-reading books is because we’re never standing in the same spot in the river of life; whatever I gleaned from the...
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...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Apr 9, 2023 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships |
It seems we have forgotten one essential truth about love. We’re told that love should only feel like love, which means good and pristine and holy and alive and erotic – and, most of all, certain. We’re raised to believe that romantic love is the...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 19, 2023 | Anxiety, Open Your Heart |
I receive the question below so frequently that I decided it’s time to address it clearly in a post. This version was left as a comment on my blog a while back: Isn’t there such a thing as a bad match between partners, even if neither of them has red...
