by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 8, 2026 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Divorce/Calling it Off/Break Up, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships |
Note: The post was originally published in December 2015. Below is an updated version in March 2026. I’ll never forget the day I was trying to find a parking spot at our local market and I saw this bumper sticker: Great Doubt Great Awakening Little Doubt Little...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 9, 2025 | Lack of Attraction Collection |
Originally posted in 2017. Updated in 2025. *** The following question is one I often receive from my clients who are struggling with the specific spoke of relationship anxiety that contains the longing to feel more love, connection, and attraction for their partner...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 26, 2025 | Open Your Heart |
Most of us are wired for negativity. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, for it’s the wiring to notice what’s wrong, missing, or askew that has kept our human race alive for thousands of years. As I’ve shared many times, highly sensitive people...
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 | Dec 31, 2023 | Sexuality |
Most people carry some shame or uncertainty about their sexuality. While we may have learned the basics about the birds and the bees in school, we weren’t given the roadmap that would help us embrace this potentially joyful aspect of being human. Instead, we receive...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 22, 2023 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts |
At the core of most, if not all, intrusive thoughts and obsessions is the question of enough. It can show up as: • Do I love my partner enough? or • Did I wash my hands enough? But what you’re really trying to answer is: Am I enough? I love what Jon Hershfield...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 25, 2022 | Sexuality |
On the last round of Sacred Sexuality, we had a Zoom call that dropped us into a space of such tenderness and vulnerability that there were many tears coming from the Zoom squares. This happens sometimes, especially around the topic of sexuality. It’s what...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 29, 2018 | Anxiety, Lack of Attraction Collection, Open Your Heart, Relationships |
Love is a verb. This is one of the great truths about love that our culture fails to teach, one that, even when we understand the principle, we need to remember it and practice it over and over again. I think of marriage or any long-term, committed relationship with a...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jun 10, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships, Sexuality |
“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.” ― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman’s Body and Soul We’re a neck-up...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 21, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationship Anxiety Collection, Relationships |
Among the many questions that dart through the mind plagued by relationship anxiety, the one that can cause either hope or despair is, “Will this anxiety ever end? The short answer is yes: the acute anxiety that you’re experiencing – the one that...
