by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 1, 2024 | Anxiety |
Our days are filled with moments of choice where have an opportunity to exercise one of our fundamental human gifts: free will. When we choose life-giving actions, we are filled with goodness. When we choose depleting actions, we open the doorway to the next depleting...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Feb 11, 2024 | Trust Yourself |
This is a common dialogue with my clients and course members: “My wedding is in six months and I’m so scared that I’m making a mistake.” “What scares you about making a mistake?” “Well, of course I don’t want to get...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 11, 2022 | Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Health anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts |
An intrusive or unwanted thought arrives… What if I don’t love my partner enough? What if I’m a different sexual orientation than I thought I was? What if I’m trapped here forever? What if the world ends? What if I don’t love my baby?...
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 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 | Feb 20, 2022 | 20s, Anxiety, Relationships, Self Trust Collection, Transitions - General, Trust Yourself, Wedding/marriage transition |
Oh, the what-ifs… I’ve received hundreds of queries over the years that reflect some version of the same question: “What if I learn to trust myself and then I realize that my truth is that I have to leave my partner?” or “What if I turn...
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 | Apr 22, 2018 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Relationships, Trust Yourself |
“The final stage of healing is using what happens to you to help other people. That is healing in itself.” – Gloria Steinem “Why me?” people often ask when they’re dragged into the underworld of anxiety in any form. “Why do...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Apr 8, 2018 | Anxiety, Relationships, Trust Yourself |
How would your life be different if you didn’t care what other people thought? How might your relationship, your job, and your day-to-day functioning be different if you weren’t weighed down by others’ opinions? How might you peel and crack out of...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 15, 2017 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Inspiration Collections, Trust Yourself |
Last Monday, after a typical Colorado October snowstorm, my sons and I drove into town to serve dinner to the homeless. Consistent with this time of year, the snow started to melt just hours after it fell, and what was left was a stunning display of beauty where the...
