by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 8, 2026 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Divorce/Calling it Off/Break Up, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships |
Note: The post was originally published in December 2015. Below is an updated version in March 2026. I’ll never forget the day I was trying to find a parking spot at our local market and I saw this bumper sticker: Great Doubt Great Awakening Little Doubt Little...
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 | 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 | Aug 26, 2018 | Anxiety, Health anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Loss and Uncertainty Collection, Relationships |
As highly sensitive people we’re physiologically wired to look for what’s wrong or amiss. While this hypervigilence once served us and our community extremely well when we were living in the outback or jungle and we were the first to scan the horizon to...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Mar 25, 2018 | 20s, 20s, Aging, Holidays and Seasons Collections, Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Intrusive Thoughts, Relationships, Transitions - General |
*Note: If you’re past your twenties, I invite you to share your thoughts and insights in the comments section about what helped you get through that decade, what you learned, and what wisdom you can import to those still struggling through that difficult decade....
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Nov 19, 2017 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Dying/Death, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
I recently came across the following in a book called “The Middle Passage” by James Hollis: “What the frightened individual wishes above all is the restoration of the sense of self which once worked. What the therapist knows is that the symptoms are...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Oct 8, 2017 | Anxiety, Self Trust Collection, Trust Yourself |
One of the byproducts of being a highly sensitive person prone to anxiety is that you tend to take on others’ pain and stories. This is particularly true if you had an enmeshed relationship with a parent growing up and didn’t learn to solidify the borders...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Sep 17, 2017 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships |
A common dream theme appeared last week on my Open Your Heart forum: cheating on one’s partner. The course participant wrote: I never remember dreams but just had one last night where I cheated on my bf with a guy I used to date and had no feelings for. In the...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Jul 30, 2017 | Anxiety, Break Free From Relationship Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, Relationship Anxiety Collection, Relationships, Transitions - General |
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl If we could slow life down to micro-moments, if we could literally alter time...
by Sheryl Lisa Finn | May 7, 2017 | Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Relationships, Transitions - General |
At least once a day the phrase “it’s hard being human” enters my brain. It usually arrives on the heels of my sons arguing with each other and me trying to teach them how to communicate more effectively. As a result of feeling hurt, one will lash out...
