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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Loss of Light

Light fading, time passing, big boy is ten, baby isn’t a baby and the time for having babies is over. The pregnant woman in the check-out line and it’s eleven years ago, pregnant with my own belly of hope and love, on the threshold of everything new and exciting. There was pain then, too, but it’s the joy and anticipation that come flying from past to present now, another layer of recognition that a stage of life is over. Oh, this life. Oh, the highly sensitive soul with the acute awareness of the passage of time and how it just keeps on marching on.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Anxiety and Numbness

I often receive a version of the following email:

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Angels All Around Us

There is so much pain in this world. There’s personal pain that often takes the form of anxiety, depression, addictions, and intrusive thoughts. There’s the physical pain of illness, injury, and disabilities, both short-term and chronic. There’s relationship pain when we endure conflict with partners, children, friends, colleagues, bosses, and family members. There’s community pain when we witness homelessness, poverty, isolation, and elder and child abuse.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,555 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

A Remedy When You Don’t Know Who You Are

Our culture entrains us not to know who we are. From the time we’re born and continuing into our early years, we’re conditioned to exte alize our sense of self through being told when and how to eat, sleep, play, socialize, learn. Although this may be changing, the dominant child-raising culture teaches parents and educators literally to train babies and children to eat and sleep on a schedule.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,534 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

“The Wisdom of Anxiety” is Coming Down the Birth Canal

In April 2015, I had a dream while on vacation in Los Angeles: Robert Johnson, the Jungian analyst who has informed so much of my work, came to me and said, “It’s time to write another book and it’s mostly written.” I woke up, faithfully wrote it down as I do with most of my dreams, then filed it away in some far-back recess of my mind.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,523 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Birth Trauma and Anxiety

When working with anxiety and intrusive thoughts, the essential component is to resist the gravitational and habitual pull to attach onto the stories that appear like planets in our inner galaxy and assume that they’re true. The story of the day – whether it centers around your relationship, your fertility, your job, your health, or your children – occupies so much space and presents its argument with such conviction that the untrained mind will naturally attach and interpret in a lightening flash second.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,503 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

How to Shatter the Myths that Are Keeping You Stuck

A great deal of my work centers around shattering myths about love, romance, and intimacy that cause untold amounts of anxiety in relationships and sexuality. If we start with the very basic “doubt means don’t” slogan that permeates the culture of romantic love, we see immediately what happens when we dismantle this pernicious myth: we’re free to experience the very common and often necessary doubt that arises in the face of real risk, and we realize that the more we make room for the doubt, the more it shrinks.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,432 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

The Fear of Getting Old

We live in an ageist culture. It’s not only that we’re terrified of death and hurry to sequester the topic away under the nearest rock or stuff it into the closest corner; it’s that, in a culture that reveres youth, beauty, and physical perfection, we fear aging itself. We fear the lines that inevitably appear on faces. We fear the roundness and softness of skin and bodies. We fear the gray hairs that sprout out as if to say, “Welcome to aging!

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,421 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Nothing Lasts Forever

For all humans, but especially the highly sensitives, one of the most difficult truths to accept is that all seasons pass, all stages come to an end, all beings die. Just as the gorgeous peach tree in full-tilt pink spring bloom drops its blossoms to reveal summer fruit, then drops its leaves in autumn’s melancholic dance to stand bare-limbed in winter, so we watch with grasping hearts as life closes out: from people and animals we love passing from this planet to childhood ending to the day’s close.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,420 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Call the Witch by Its True Name

My favorite fairy tale when I was a child was Rumpelstiltskin, the story of a girl who makes a bargain with an imp-like creature in exchange for saving her life from being executed by the king. First she gives the imp a necklace, then a ring, then promises her firstbo child. But when her child arrives, she begs the imp to let her keep it. He says he will if she can guess his name.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,385 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

A Tale of Two Moths, Dark Night of the Soul, and Sexuality

I met Andrea in my first round of Open Your Heart in May 2013. Every time she posted on the forum, I was moved and inspired by the depth and clarity of her writing, and her ability to transpose her inner world into words. When she shared this story with me over email, I immediately asked if she would be willing to share it on my site, as I knew it would provide light and inspiration for those struggling through dark night of the soul, especially when sexuality is effected.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,350 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

This is a Powerful Predictor of Your Well-Being

We all have inside of us a well of Self. This is a fluid well that is continuously being drained and refilled by how we spend our time, depleted and nourished by how we move through our inner and outer worlds. When the well is full, we are resourced and regulated, which means we’re more adept at handling life’s stressors, including the inevitable anxiety that frequently traipses through the door of the highly sensitives.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

This is What is Embedded Inside Fear and Regret

This is a story about what happens when we forget to make room for grief around transitions. It’s a story that illuminates the heart of a highly sensitive person, and how easy it is to overlook and minimize the tende ess of our hearts. It’s a story of remembering my own medicine, and how easy it is to forget.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,298 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Guilt and Regret

Let’s imagine that there are invisible tracks streaming like ribbons in the ether of psyche. Some of these tracks resonate at a higher vibration and some move at a lower vibration. The tracks of higher vibration carry the feelings that emanate from the source of ourselves: sadness, joy, contentment, fear, uncertainty, disappointment, and, of course, love and gratitude. When the channels are clear, we can easily connect to these source feelings, which allows us to remain in the flow of the river of life without obstruction.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,276 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

You Can't Stop the Waves but You Can Learn to Surf

At the core of anxiety – whether health anxiety, death anxiety, relationship anxiety, or generalized anxiety – is the need for safety. As I’ve been writing about in my last few posts, left to our own unguided minds, the ego will latch onto our stories to try to gain a foothold into the ever-changing flow of an uncertain world in an attempt to create safety. This never works.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,274 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

The Fear of Losing Control

When we spiral down into the deeper layers of anxiety – whether relationship anxiety or any other form that anxiety takes – we find some universal root causes that live at the center. These exist on both the emotional and psychological/spiritual planes, and they all need our attention if we’re going to heal.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Feelings Are Messy

As humans in an uncertain world, we seek certainty in a variety of ways. We ask questions that are fundamentally unanswerable. We ruminate and obsess on a single thought (otherwise known as intrusive thoughts). We Google and text and seek reassurance in a variety of increasingly technologically oriented ways. When I see someone falling into these common mental habits, the first questio I encourage them to ask themselves is, “What are these thoughts/actions protecting me from feeling?”

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

How We Love Ourselves

We hear a lot about the importance of loving ourselves these days, and how we can’t love someone else until we truly love ourselves. While I don’t entirely agree with that statement (adult attachment theory shows that it’s through secure attachment to loving others that we feel loved and, therefore, learn to love ourselves), I do know that loving ourselves is a key component to wellness. Yet what does it mean to love ourselves?

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,257 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

In Bed With Fear

We hear a lot about the power of fear these days, and the way we culturally/psychologically talk about it speaks to our beliefs that there are forces “out there” that are dark or evil that we need to overpower. In the early days of my work, I also spoke of fear in these terms, but over the years I’ve softened my perspective and have come to see fear as an inner bully that doesn’t need our aggression as much as our loving attention. When fear takes over, especially in the form of debilitating anxiety, it’s easy to feel like fear is the aggressor and you’re the victim.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,247 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Deconstructing the Family Story

One of the essential spokes of the growth and healing wheel is being willing to see our parents clearly. As children, we almost have no choice but to see our parents as infallible heroes and gods, and many people continue to carry these fantasies into adulthood. But if we’re to know ourselves, which is essential to healing ourselves, we need to know where we come from. We need to be able to trace at least some of the lines of our negative patterns back to their origin.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,246 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Self-Trust, Red Flags and Relationship Anxiety

Just as there are no rules for life, there are no rules for relationships. That statement can be triggering for the ego, the part of us that insatiably demands definite answers and craves formulas. “Tell me how to live and how to love and then I’ll know that I’ll be okay!” the ego thinks, then pushes us to perseverate on an unanswerable question in its attempt to gain a foothold into the ever-shifting landscape of a life where there are no guarantees. For those struggling with relationship anxiety, these questions sound like: “How do I know if I’m in love?”

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,234 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

This is the Most Common Statement I Hear About Sex

I hear a lot about sex in my work with clients. I hear about their fantasies, their shame, and their shame about their fantasies. I hear about their arousal confusion, their sex anxiety, and their struggle with desire. I hear about the common arc of sexuality in long-term relationships: the high of the early infatuation stage (if there was one at all) that reaches a zenith then plateaus into normal, everyday life. And from there arises the most common statement from women that I hear about sex: I would be fine if I never had sex again.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

The Most Powerful Medicine to Soothe a Rupture of Anxiety

Life moves along in flows and eddies. The more you attend to your inner world and heal the long-standing and deep-seated pain and trauma that live at the root of intrusive thoughts, the longer the stretches of eddies and the time you’ll stand amongst the reeds, flowing with the small moments of life as they arise, both the poetry and the pain. But we cannot live in the eddies forever, and it’s often when the earth tilts and its relationship to the sun shifts – in the crack between two seasons – that the next layer of grief bubbles up to the surface.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,214 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

How to Find a Therapist

On a daily basis, my assistant and I receive the following email: “Can you recommend a therapist in my area who is familiar with your work?” Sadly, I don’t have a database of like-minded therapists, and, even more sadly, I know that many therapists fall into the “doubt means don’t” mindset and end up creating more anxiety for their already anxious clients. As such, I can understand the reluctance to start therapy with someone who could very well tell you to walk away from your loving, honest, trustworthy, like-minded partner as soon as you hint at doubt.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,202 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

What If My Anxiety is Actually Intuition that Something is Wrong?

One of the most common questions I receive in my work is: How do I know the difference between fear that’s coming from anxiety and fear that’s coming from intuition alerting me to a real problem?r

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,178 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

The Best Piece of Advice I Can Give You to Reduce Your Anxiety

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, sleep anxiety, fertility anxiety – just to name a few.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,177 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

The Intersection of Sex and Relationship Anxiety

If you’re familiar with relationship anxiety, you know that it doesn’t take much for a flyaway thought to send you into a tailspin of anxiety that then leads you to question if you’re with the right person. This thought could be, “I’m not feeling in love” or “My partner always irritates me” or “I’m not attracted right now.” Because we’re not properly educated both about how to work with thoughts and how relationships actually unfold in the real world (as opposed to the media world), it’s a quick jump from the normal thought to the assumption: “I’m with the wrong partner.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

This is What Actually Goes on Behind Closed Doors

One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “How come other people don’t suffer in this way?” It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about relationship anxiety, friendship anxiety, social anxiety, or any other hook that anxiety hangs its hat on, when you’re the one suffering it feels like you’re the only one suffering. As I recently shared on Instagram, one of the reasons why we struggle with so much shame around anxiety is that we’re disconnected from the real fabric of humanity, the village where friends meet at the well or in the field and talk about their places of struggle.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,155 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Grief Neutralizes Thought

We are addicted to our stories. The thoughts come in and take us away on their magic carpet promise of arriving in a land of certainty, where the vulnerability and pain of life can’t touch us. We learn early to climb aboard this carpet because, as young people, we usually don’t know how to manage the big feelings of life. Big feelings coursing through a little body are only manageable when that body is being held in the arms of a loving, solid caregiver who can transmit the message, “You’re okay. It’s okay. I’ve got you. It’s a big feeling but it won’t hurt you. Let it come. Be loud.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,149 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Risk Aversion and Anxiety

I’m standing on the edge of my life, as if on the shores of a cold but beautiful lake. I want to dive in but I’m scared, only the fear doesn’t sound like fear as much as doubt, anxiety, uncertainty, and ambivalence. What if I make a mistake? What if the water is too cold and I can’t breathe? What if there’s a better lake out there: warmer, smoother, less dangerous? I’m here but I do not move, too scared to fail, too scared to risk, too scared to live.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,148 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Remedies for Eco-Anxiety and Absorbing the Pain of the World

The topic of world and eco-anxiety seems to make the rounds in my practice every few months, and last week was one of those times. Between longterm clients, new clients, and course members, the theme was flooding the room. I’d like to break it down for you using the principles of my work to see if I can offer some ease.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,146 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

"I Wish He Was Taller"

I could have titled this post with any of the phrases I hear every day from my clients and course members: - "I wish she was thinner." - "I wish he was more successful." - "I wish she had better skin." - "I wish he was more assertive."

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,145 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

The News and Anxiety

We live in uncertain times, and that statement alone can send an anxious-sensitive personality type into a tailspin. But the truth is that we’ve always lived in uncertain times. Because death exists, our lives hang in the balance on this precious and precarious planet. The threats change faces – where once we feared our babies getting eaten by a wild hyena or dying of tuberculosis now we fear terrorist attacks and school bombings – but the threat is more or less the same as it’s always been.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,144 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

When Fear Washes In: Health Anxiety and Death Anxiety

Fear is a part of life. Sometimes we can keep it at bay, but eventually, with certainty, it will creep in like a red tide on an otherwise calm beach. We try to run, but it's faster than we are. We try to hide but it discovers all of our hiding places.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,143 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Two Healing Words

Last week, I had the blessed opportunity of having a closure session in person with a beautiful woman with whom I’ve worked for almost six years. As we sat face-t0-face (as opposed to screen-to-screen) and the session’s minutes clicked toward the end of our hour together, I told her that I wanted to make sure we had ample time to talk about our work and reflect on her growth over these past six years. She immediately dropped into her heart and, through tears, expressed her gratitude.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Intrusive Thought: "What if I Harm a Child?" (POCD)

When the same thought, image, dream, or motif shows up across cultures and crosses all of our lines of classification (age, gender, geography, race, religion), we call it an archetype. For example, the dreams where you show up at school without your pants on or have forgotten to study for a test are archetypal dreams. The character of the wicked witch or the evil stepmother are archetypal symbols.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,139 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Am I the Only One Struggling with Anxiety?

People often ask me why they’re struggling with relationship anxiety or social anxiety or any other kind of anxiety when other people seem to glide through life more effortlessly. The subtext embedded in the question is, “Is there something wrong with me?” or “Why am I being singled out or punished?” In our culture that is dominated by the pursuit of the happy face and the false correlation of vulnerability with weakness, these questions and assumptions are understandable.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,137 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

At the Heart of Anxiety

“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 they have it so easy? Why does it look like everyone else glides through life when I struggle?”

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

One of the Most Powerful Questions to Cut Through Anxiety (Relationships, Health, Parenting, Friendship)

When addressing anxiety effectively, we must attend to all four realms of self: physical, emotional, cognitive, and soul – or body, heart, mind, and soul. Attending only to one of the four realms is helpful, but it won’t help you heal anxiety from the root. By “attend” I mean we need tools to work with all four realms, and the tool I’m going to share today will help you on the cognitive/mind realm.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,120 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

The One Essential Question that Lives Inside Relationship Anxiety

One of the most challenging elements of relationship anxiety to understand is that, if you’re in a healthy, loving relationship with no red flags, the anxiety is projection. This means that the parade of intrusive thoughts that tortures the anxious mind and sensitive soul are actually pointing to areas inside of you that are crying out for your attention. This is such a reversal of our literal, read-everything-at-face-value culture that it can take a while for the shift of mindset to sink in.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

“My Partner Isn’t Smart Enough”

“One of the big traps we have in the West is our intelligence, because we want to know what we know. Freedom allows you to be wise, but you cannot know wisdom. You must be wisdom… The intellect is a beautiful servant, but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.” – Ram Dass

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,109 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Dismantling this Offshoot of Anxiety Will Set You Free

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom,” said Kierkegaard as quoted by Mark Nepo, who continues with, “The truth is that every fresh experience has this dizziness of freedom that we have to move through. Every time we reach beyond what is familiar, there is this necessary acclimation to what is new. It is the doorway to all learning. We needn’t be afraid of it or give it too much power. We simply have to keep leaning into what we are learning.”

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,103 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

This is One of the Scariest Things Humans Do

Whenever I meet someone new and we talk about how my 15-year old son is a pilot, they look at me sideways and say something like, “You’re a brave mom to let him fly.” As I’ve written about in other posts, allowing him to fly does, indeed, drag me into a regular practice of facing my fears and letting go, but the joy I experience watching his joy far outweighs the fear. His passion is a gift, and I know how rare it is to have such a clear calling so early in life, how passion can be the fire that burns through layers of the fears that want to keep us small.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,100 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Compassion or Comparison

My yoga teacher has said this phrase dozens of times, but one morning it went in differently and landed in the places where breath meets bone, where sinew aches with loss and the water in the pelvic bowl of my hips shimmered like a moonlit lake.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,099 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Intrusive Thought: “I Have to be Single In Order to Heal”

It’s a thought that arises frequently for those struggling with relationship anxiety: “I have to be single in order to heal.” Offshoots and extrapolations of this thought sound like: • “I have to backpack by myself across Europe.” • “I have to live in a loft in New York.” • “I haven’t dated enough.” • “I have to leave my partner in order to find myself.”

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

1,099 views

By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

“I Wish He Was Funnier”

Oh, the list of thoughts that try to prevent us from taking the risk of loving wholeheartedly is quite long, but there are a few that always top the list, buzzing and darting in and around your ears like mosquitos in summer. I recently wrote about the “I wish he was taller” thought, and I’ve written extensively about the “I’m not attracted” thought. This week’s thought that topped the charts of my sessions was “I wish he was funnier.” Here’s an excerpt from a client (published with permission):

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

How Marie Kondo can Help You Fall in Love With Your Partner

Anxious people aren’t typically the most easy-going people on the planet. Because our high sensitivity wires us for hypervigilance, which then causes us to scan the horizon for danger, we’re physiologically primed to have a more tightly-wound nervous system. Unless you received guidance as a child for how to work with this propensity to worry, all of those worry-strands continued to coalesce and gather strength in your body and psyche over the years, forming a tightly wound ball of twine until it reached a breaking point.

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

How to Excavate the Hidden Wounds to Help you Heal Shame

“Whatever we have taken from them, the founding story of our lives, imposed on us by a mother and father who in turn inherited a faulty script from their own parents, isn’t even ours.” – Derren Brown in Happy

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Am I Connected Enough to My Partner?

The connection question is one of the most common spikes that darts across the screen of my clients and readers’ consciousness when they’re struggling with relationship anxiety. Do we connect enough? Do we talk enough? What if I feel bored sometimes? Is there a meeting of the minds? Do we have enough chemistry? What is chemistry? What, oh what, is this elusive thing called connection that everyone keeps talking about and how do I know if we have enough of it?

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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By Sheryl PaulRecently published1 topic

Would You Like To Know Why Real Love Is So Scary

“We are all made up of yearning and light, searching for a way out, afraid we will be shut in or cut off or repelled back into the ground from which we are reaching. This is enough to begin: To know, before all the names and histories drape who we are, that we want to be held and left alone, again and again; held and left alone until the dance of it is how we survive and grow, like spring into winter into spring again.” – Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening

Primary topic: Life Transitions

Life Transitions

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