by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 22, 2015 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Intrusive Thoughts |
If you’re like most people, there’s probably an element of pain, dread and/or overwhelm as we enter the holiday season. The rush to consume, the pressure to feel joyful, and the expectation of experiencing perfect familial bliss set against a Normal... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | 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 Finn | Aug 10, 2015 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Parenthood transitions |
As my son approached his eleventh birthday, I found myself sounding like those women who used to stop me on the street as I was walking with my newborn so many years ago: “Oh, sweetheart, what a beautiful baby! It goes by so quickly. Soak in every minute of it.... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | 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 Finn | 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 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 | May 29, 2012 | Anxiety, Dying/Death, Transitions - General, Wedding/marriage transition |
While my work started fourteen years ago focusing on the wedding transition and evolved eight years ago into the motherhood transition, in recent years I’ve realized that the healing of anxiety that informs the crux of my work is intimately connected to the... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 13, 2011 | Anxiety, Transitions - General |
A beautiful and inspiring video that one of my dearest friends sent me last night. A genuine expression of gratitude is one of the most powerful antidotes to... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 1, 2011 | Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General, Wedding/marriage transition |
Something a little different this week to express the transition of autumn – and life – through poetry, music and images: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm8Md7x7Z-s[/youtube] by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Aug 17, 2011 | Transitions - General |
Once again, it’s a joy and an honor to write for Maria Shriver’s blog: Because we live in a culture that fears change, we don’t provide people with the accurate information and necessary tools that would guide them through the tricky emotional terrain of...