by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 28, 2018 | Anxiety, Anxiety Collection, Health anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Trust Yourself |
Our era has been called the Information Age, the Technology Age, and the Digital Age. But it could also easily be called The Age of Anxiety, for anxiety is rampant and can manifest in so many ways: social anxiety, test anxiety, work anxiety, relationship anxiety,...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 26, 2017 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships, Self Trust Collection, Transitions - General, Trust Yourself |
“I’m always comparing my relationship to other people’s relationships. Why does everyone else look like they’re so in love?” “I have such a hard time making decisions. Sometimes I can’t even decide what to order at a...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 22, 2016 | 20s, Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Loss and Uncertainty Collection, Trust Yourself |
There are so many ways that we can avoid pain. We can choose denial. We can self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. We can fall prey to fear/ego’s insidiously convincing beliefs that to turn inward is “selfish, indulgent, and will get you nowhere.” We...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 3, 2016 | 20s, Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships, Transitions - General, Trust Yourself |
The doing arises from the being. We’re all born of mother: the sea, the lakes, the waters of the amniotic fluid in the womb. We long for actual mother without understanding that it’s the great mother who’s always available to embrace us in her...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 22, 2014 | Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Relationships |
There’s a vulnerability on the planet during the holiday season. I see it in people’s faces: beneath the stress and tightness and frantic pace lives the softness of an open heart, as if the emissaries of grief travel from broken heart to eyes and softening...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 24, 2014 | 20s, Anxiety, Rituals and Symbols |
We hear a lot about the power of gratitude lately. There seems to have been a hundredth monkey leap in consciousness, a global awareness that gratitude is a powerful and relatively easy way to sweep out the propensity toward negativity and connect to what’s good...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 2, 2014 | Anxiety, Inspiration Collections, Relationships |
There is so much pain in this world. There’s personal pain that often takes the form of anxiety, depression, addictions, and intrusive thoughts. There’s the physical pain of illness, injury, and disabilities, both short-term and chronic. There’s...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 14, 2014 | Anxiety, Relationships, Self Trust Collection, Trust Yourself, Wedding/marriage transition |
We’re born intrinsically worthy. Every person on the planet – every single baby – is born deserving of love. When we gaze upon the miracle of a newborn, we don’t say, “I’ll only love you if you’re the smartest, most popular...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 10, 2014 | Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Relationships, Rituals and Symbols |
Where there is expectation there’s a setup for disappointment, which is why holidays like Valentine’s Day so often include tears. For whether you’re single or partnered, it’s almost impossible to escape the expectation that on this one day your...
