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...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 19, 2023 | Alanis Morissette, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships |
Many of you have found your way to my work through the portal of relationship anxiety. From there, we’ve traveled into deeper realms together, including health anxiety, friendship anxiety, parenting anxiety, career anxiety, and generalized anxiety – but...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 15, 2023 | Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationship Anxiety Collection, Wedding/marriage transition |
Note: I first published this post in 2011 and it remains one of my most popular blog posts. I’m updating it now to include more relevant language and also concepts that have evolved in the last twelve years about relationship anxiety. *** One of the most common...
