by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 28, 2025 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Autumn leaves, the first hints of gold and red. So beautiful. And also painful. The loss of beauty and the beauty of loss. The way beauty and loss are wrapped around each other in this life. Autumn is one of our most visual representations of the passage of time. I’m...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | 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 Finn | 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 Finn | 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 Finn | 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 Finn | 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 Finn | 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 Finn | Jan 31, 2011 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
This morning, in my daily email from Dr. Furhman, he wrote: “Winter is a common time to experience symptoms of depression. When the holidays are over and the weather is cold and dark, it is more common to feel sad, anxious, or hopeless. Whether one is...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 31, 2010 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
Sometimes computers provide lessons in letting go. I wrote this post last week but it mysteriously disappeared. Frustration. Breathe. Oh well. Here it goes again. As we began to move from the Summer Solstice to the Winter Solstice, the light of each day diminished...
