by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 24, 2024 | OCD |
Life can be uncomfortable. Life can be imperfect. Life can be imbalanced, which often leads to feeling off-kilter. Life can be disorienting. Life can be messy, dirty, and disorganized. There are moments or times when brain synapses and the alchemical mysteries align...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 27, 2024 | Anxiety |
There are times when it feels like the earth is quaking beneath our feet. This might be when we’re enduring a personal challenge or transition, it might when we’re drowning in the cesspool of intrusive thoughts, and it might be when the global uncertainty...
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 15, 2024 | 9-Month |
As much as you want to change and heal, as much as you long to feel more fullness, aliveness, calm, and well-being, as much as you deeply desire a way to navigate life with more ease and less attachment to control, as much as you ache to break free from your intrusive...
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 | Aug 18, 2024 | OCD |
Rest is good AND we are meant to move. Rest is important AND we are meant to work. Rest is essential AND we are meant to be productive. Rest is delicious AND we are meant to be active. There’s been a lot going on in the world these last several years. Humans have been...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 1, 2023 | Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationship Anxiety Collection |
September 2023 update: If there is one blog post I refer to more than any other when someone asks about relationship anxiety, it’s this one. Why? Because at the core of relationship anxiety lives this one abiding question, and when we can address anxiety at the...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
Underneath anxiety is a lack of safety. And underneath a lack of safety is a lack of trust. Said in reverse: When we trust, we feel safe. And when we feel safe, anxiety quiets down. But, oh, how challenging it can be to trust! Worry is a Buzzkill When Everest turned...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 13, 2023 | 9-Month |
Years ago, I wrote a post called You Are Loved, which I then recorded and included in several of my courses (and on this page). The post begins: If you knew you were fully loved, if you knew that you were whole and worthy exactly as you are just for being...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 30, 2023 | Transitions - General |
A theme has emerged these past two weeks in my groups, individual sessions, and of course, in my own life: the passage of time. With three weeks left until Everest leaves for college, the heartache and joy embedded in the passage of time is acute in our household. On...
