by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Nov 11, 2018 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Highly Sensitive Person, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
My son and I are driving into town for our weekly Friday morning special time and Suzanne Vega’s song “The World Before Columbus” comes on. It’s a song she wrote for her daughter that I used to sing to Everest when he was a baby, and these... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Nov 5, 2017 | 20s, Aging, Holidays and Seasons Collections, Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Intrusive Thoughts, Transitions - General |
One morning last week, as the darkness unfurled into first light and the night’s dreams still lingered at the edges of psyche, my younger son asked, “Why are there Christmas decorations in the stores already?” Without thinking I responded,... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Aug 23, 2015 | Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
The slightly crisp air. The sight of school supplies lining the aisles of the pharmacy. The sound of the school bus. Autumn leaves. The loss of light at the day’s end. And my clients are suddenly sharing dreams about showing up at school without any clothes on... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Jan 4, 2015 | 20s, Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Sometimes an anger surges up in me about how abysmally this culture guides and takes care of its members around transitions. We expect engaged women and men to put on a happy face from proposal through honeymoon, ignoring their innate need to grieve the loss of their... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Dec 8, 2014 | 20s, Aging, Holidays and Seasons Collections, Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
There’s a natural rhythm to each season and each month of the year, an archetypal energy that, if we could allow ourselves to tap into, would guide us toward loving actions that would serve our inner selves. In spring we’re guided toward the energy of... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Nov 30, 2014 | 20s, Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
There is a room in your heart where sadness dwells. Each story of sadness lives there like a stagnant, frozen particle of light waiting for you to see it, to hold it, to wrap it in a blanket and bring it tea. When you visit your grief place with love, the particles of... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Nov 9, 2014 | Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Light fading, time passing, big boy is ten, baby isn’t a baby and the time for having babies is over. The pregnant woman in the check-out line and it’s eleven years ago, pregnant with my own belly of hope and love, on the threshold of everything new and... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Nov 18, 2013 | Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Inspiration Collections, Relationships, Transitions - General |
It’s not here yet, but for the highly sensitive among us we feel winter’s imminent descent with each minute of daylight that joins the tribe of night. The days are shorter; the leaves have almost completed their arabesques and twirls of their final dance.... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Feb 3, 2013 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
Winter is often an emotionally challenging time. In the darker months with shorter days, psyche invites us to slow down and dip into her underworld where we find unshed tears, unexplored fears, and latent dreams. We can avoid our shadow during the long days of summer... by Sheryl Lisa Paul | Dec 10, 2012 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
Each day the fairies of darkness gather in greater numbers and pull their veil across the daylight hours. They’re inviting us into their season of solitude, their great love of stillness, their reverence for the mystery that is often revealed in the darkest...
