by Sheryl Paul | Jun 17, 2018 | Anxiety, Relationships, Sexuality, Sexuality Collection |
One of the spokes of any anxiety wheel is cognitive distortions: the assumptions, misunderstandings, and expectations we form about love, relationships, romance, parenting, sexuality, and nearly every realm of being human. Because we’re not explicitly taught how... by Sheryl Paul | Jun 3, 2018 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships, Sexuality, Sexuality Collection |
Clients often say to me, “My partner isn’t a great lover. He or she doesn’t know how to touch me like past partners have.” To which I respond, “Maybe that’s true, but if your own anxiety, current life circumstances, and sexual/body... by Sheryl Paul | Jan 7, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships, Sexuality |
I hear a lot of whispered truths from women about their sex lives. I hear that they don’t like kissing, that they haven’t had sex in months (or longer), that they would be perfectly fine never to have sex again. But the statement I hear more than any other... by Sheryl Paul | Dec 24, 2017 | Anxiety, Sexuality |
With the latest exposure of sexual assault, abuse, and violation in this country, there can be no doubt that our culture suffers from profound sexual dysfunction and illness. Many of us, especially women, have been privately aware of the toxicity for a long time and... by Sheryl Paul | Jun 11, 2017 | Anxiety, Relationships, Sexuality, Sexuality Collection |
We talk about social anxiety. We talk about relationship anxiety. We talk about transition anxiety. Now it’s time to talk about sex anxiety: not only how anxiety in general or relationship anxiety in particular kills libido but how much anxiety we carry about... by Sheryl Paul | Jun 4, 2017 | 20s, Anxiety, Relationships, Sexuality Collection |
We live in a microwave culture, which means we expect everything to happen and arrive quickly. We expect our food to arrive within minutes of ordering it. We expect our communication to arrive within seconds of sending it. We expect our things to arrive within days of...
