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 | May 28, 2023 | OCD |
As I wrote about recently, at the core of anxiety and OCD lives the fear of death: either literal death or social death (humiliation, being shunned, rejected, losing your place of belonging). If we’re going to address anxiety at the root, we have to talk about... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 27, 2022 | Intrusive Thoughts, Parenthood transitions |
Ever since our son, Everest, earned his private pilot’s power-plane license a few months ago I’ve been wanting to fly with him. Maybe “wanting” isn’t quite the right word; it’s more like I’ve been wanting to want to fly with... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 6, 2022 | Dying/Death, Intrusive Thoughts, Trust Yourself |
I had planned to share about something else this week for the podcast. I was going to tell a story about a moment in a corn maze with our family, Victoria, and her boyfriend when we were in New Jersey a few weeks ago. As you can hear in the video below (click on the... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 23, 2022 | Intrusive Thoughts, Trust Yourself |
When I was a kid growing up in the 70s, there wasn’t much that we worried about on the global scale. Yes, there was the threat of nuclear war (which we protested on the streets of Los Angeles), but, ignorant about the effects of human consumption and greed, we... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 16, 2022 | 20s, Anxiety, Trust Yourself |
Many years ago, when my boys were learning how to write, they would freeze in their tracks for fear of making a spelling mistake. Their perfectionist tendencies were not a surprise to us – after all, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree – and it... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 31, 2021 | 20s, Self Trust Collection, Trust Yourself |
On a recent group call, a participant asked one of the most common questions for those struggling with anxiety and intrusive thoughts is: “So if I don’t trust these anxious thoughts then what can I trust? If my truth is really that we are not right for... 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...
