by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 9, 2025 | Lack of Attraction Collection |
Originally posted in 2017. Updated in 2025. *** The following question is one I often receive from my clients who are struggling with the specific spoke of relationship anxiety that contains the longing to feel more love, connection, and attraction for their partner...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 18, 2025 | Divorce/Calling it Off/Break Up |
It’s an inevitable and heartbreaking fact that some friendships seem to have a finite lifespan. (If you struggle with relationship anxiety, please see the note at the bottom of this article!) There are friends that you know will see you through every transition...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 19, 2024 | Anxiety, Getting Married Collections, Relationship Anxiety Collection, Relationships, Wedding/marriage transition |
2024 update: This post was originally published in 2013 and addressed one of the most common spikes for those struggling with relationship anxiety: Can I make it work with anyone? An offshoot of this spike is: What if we’re just a bad match? When people find...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 1, 2023 | Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationship Anxiety Collection |
September 2023 update: If there is one blog post I refer to more than any other when someone asks about relationship anxiety, it’s this one. Why? Because at the core of relationship anxiety lives this one abiding question, and when we can address anxiety at the...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 13, 2022 | Anxiety, Parenthood transitions, Pregnancy and Parenting Collections |
Note: I wrote this post when Everest was nine years old. He’s now eighteen. Of course, we’re long past the time when we would stay with him while he fell asleep at night, but I’m happy to share that we still value connected time before bed. And...
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 | Jun 12, 2022 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person |
2022 update on this post: This morning our younger son, who is 13 years, old told me about a headline he read on Apple news about the weather. We’re having a very hot week here in the Denver/Boulder area and the headline caught his eye because it mentioned...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 6, 2022 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Relationships |
I talk a lot about intrusive thoughts on this site, particularly how they pertain to relationship anxiety. I see thoughts as the flares from the Self brilliantly designed to attract our attention so that we can learn to turn inward and attend, possibly for the first...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jan 8, 2022 | 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 Lisa Finn | Jan 2, 2022 | Sexuality |
When I launched the first round of Sacred Sexuality: A 40-day course for women to heal body shame and ignite desire in June 2017 I had no idea what to expect on the forum. Would the members feel reticent to share their innermost fears, secrets, questions, and stories...
