Podcast appearances and mentions of sheryl paul

Landis Bejar is a New York State Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional counselor in the state of Georgia. Landis earned Masters degrees in Counseling Psychology and Mental Health Counseling from Columbia University. In 2018, Landis founded AisleTalk: Consultation & Therapy, a New York-based therapy and coaching practice devoted to supporting clients who find themselves stressed out as they plan their wedding – a time in life which seems glamorous and euphoric on the outside, but can actually bring up very real stress, mood changes, anxiety, and relationship/family strain for so many. For her innovative work in this area, Landis has been quoted as an expert source in numerous media publications, including TIME magazine, The New York Times, BRIDES, Bustle, Vox, The New York Post, and several others. Landis has also served as a mental health and relationship expert on the BRIDES media review board. She now manages AisleTalk remotely from Atlanta, Georgia, where she lives with her husband and two boys.   Instagram LinkedIn Facebook ------ Wedding Planning Therapy | AisleTalk "The Conscious Bride", Sheryl Paul and Sheryl Nissinen A Practical Wedding

This week I share 5 books that have changed my life and the way I view love and relationships. Each book has meant so much to me and I dive into some of my favorite concepts + quotes from each book. I cover: Mating in Captivity Esther Perel → this changed the way I view passion in relationships and transitioning out of the honeymoon phase The Wisdom of Anxiety by Sheryl Paul → validated my experience of relationship anxiety and brought forward a compassionate interpretation of it Eight Dates by John and Julie Gottman → helped me understand important relationship dynamics and open doors of discussion with Nate on our shared values and life visions The Relationship Handbook by George Pransky → recent book that changed the way I perceive moments of relational challenge and why they happen All About Love Bell Hooks → opened up my perspective on love and what love means — Additional resources: Join Deconstruct the Doubts digital course here (instant + lifetime access) Click here to join the waitlist for the next cohort of Beyond the Doubts group coaching Download the free video training: The Single Most Important Lesson in Healing Relationship Anxiety Visit my website Connect with me on Instagram

După 2 ani și jumătate de la ultima ei vizită în podcast, Gabriela Ilie revine azi să punem anxietatea într-o lumină nouă, să înțelegem ce este, cum o recunoaștem, cum o gestionăm sănătos în loc să ne propunem să scăpăm de ea. Gabriela este psiholog și psihoterapeut în formare somatică, gazda podcastului Morning Podcast și antreprenor. Prin munca ei ajută oamenii stresați, anxioși și obosiți să-și recapete energia și starea de bine. Îi place să vorbească despre rutina de dimineață și despre puterea ritualurilor de a transforma viața și de a aduce bunăstare, atât psihică, cât și materială. Cartea menționată în episod este ”Înțelepciunea anxietății” de Sheryl Paul. Episodul de Pauza de Bine despre recunoștință este nr. 14. Pe Gabriela o găsești pe: - site: https://gabrielailie.ro/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perfect_morning_routine/ Abia aștept să aflu de la tine ce din ideile Gabrielei vei pune în practică încă de azi!

Today we revisit one of our most popular episodes, an early interview with Sheryl Paul, author of "The Conscious Bride". Sheryl's work allows us to reflect on how the pain, grief, discomfort, and vulnerability that can arise throughout the wedding process can actually be doorways into joy if we are willing to let them in.    Music by Terry Hughes   Links: Sheryl Paul's work The Conscious Bride Shelter in Place Podcast   Also Check Out: Inviting Grief to the Wedding My Self-Marriage Story   Rate This Podcast Full Transcript   Paul: I'm always interested in what's not being talked about what people are experiencing, but are trying to stuff away, trying to sequester, trying to sweep into the corner under the rug... when all that does is create shame and all that does is create anxiety.   Sheryl Paul has a unique ability to see the invisible, to see what has been silenced. Her book "The Conscious Bride" has been helping couples prepare for marriage for 20 years - and prepare in a very specific way. Her work helps couples create room for all of the emotions that come with transition, not just the picture perfect ones. Funny thing is, that allows for even more joy. Join me for a conversation with Sheryl Paul.   This is Shame Piñata. I'm Colleen Thomas. Welcome to Shame Piñata, where we talk about creating rites of passage for real-life transitions. When I got engaged six years ago, a good friend of mine gave me a book called "The Conscious Bride". Now, I'm not a reader, as my husband will tell you, but I devoured this book. I loved it because it touched on the shadow, the stuff we don't talk about, the stuff that gets in our way when we want to feel one way but actually feel a myriad of other ways all at the same time. It named the shadow that hovers over the wedding: the attachment, the fear, the uncertainty, the hidden power-struggles and the grief that lies beneath them, and that a big part of stepping into a new life is letting go of the old one - and not just for the couple. The Conscious Bride gave me permission to feel all the ways, and it helped me create room for everyone else to feel all the ways too, so ultimately, we could all process the transition without getting into weird fights about random things. I was so happy to have a chance to speak with Sheryl Paul.    Thomas: So what led you to write this book?   Paul: So, I was in a master's program around that time. I was at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, which I don't know if you're familiar with, but it has a very strong Jungian focus. And I had always been interested in rites of passages and I had a deep sense that there was a lot that was not being talked about around the wedding. And I started to interview women and I did a lot of interviews, especially when it came time to write the book, which came from my master's thesis. So it started out as as a thesis and then evolve into a book. And I started to see that there was a big gap in the cultural conversation around around transitions in general. All transitions are bypassed and overlooked, but particularly the wedding and then in particular, how much focus there is on the joy and the perfection and everything has to be blissful and ecstatic from the moment of the proposal into the first year of the wedding, and there was just no conversation happening about the shadow, about the death experience, about what women (and men) are actually experiencing quite a bit of a time. And, you know, the more I researched and the more I looked and the more I spoke, the more it became quite clear to me that just that again, that there was a real gap in the conversation around this pivotal rite of passage, one of our few ceremonies that we still invoke in the culture. And yet it's done in such a way where we really gloss over the element of a transition, of the reality that when you are in transition, you are in a death experience, you are in a liminal zone, you are between identities, you are letting go, you are grieving. And we only expect people to feel joyful. It creates a lot of anxiety and it creates even more chaos than there naturally would be around an event like this. Because I'm feeling sad, because I have a sense of loss, because I feel like a part of me is dying, because I'm not over-the-moon ecstatic... something must be wrong with me, or with my partner, or with the decision to get married - something's wrong. And it's an incredibly deep sigh of relief to the soul to know that nothing is wrong. In fact, the more you let those difficult feelings in, the more you will open to the joy; that the pain and the grief and the discomfort and vulnerability are the doorways into the joy, into what we are expected to see all and into what we hope to feel. And what I started to say earlier was that that the wedding more than any other transition, I think, has (probably being pregnant becoming a mother comes close) carries a very strong cultural expectation of unilateral joy and it is supported in a big way by the wedding industry that sells perfection and sells joy. So it's a it's very big money behind selling us the bill of goods by selling us this message that you are supposed to be joyful and the way to do that is to create a perfect event.   Thomas: How do you work with someone if they're just starting to realize that they don't have to only feel joyful?   Paul: So, I tell them to read my book. And, you know, it's really the first part it's about re educating people to understand all of the normal and necessary feelings that accompany this transition. And once they understand that everything they're feeling is normal and necessary, they can start to let it in and and feel it, feel the grief, feel the loss, feel the vulnerability, feel the loneliness. These are all normal feelings that accompany transitions. So once we give ourselves permission to feel without that overlay of "because I'm feeling this it means there's something wrong" everything changes from there. We don't then have to misassign meaning to the feelings and to think, "Because I'm feeling sad, it means I'm making mistake." No, it has nothing to do with that. You're feeling sad because you are in a rite of passage. You're feeling sad because you are in the death experience, letting go of this identity, this primary identity as single person, as daughter, and shifting into an entirely new stage of life, a new identity. And there is no way to go through that without feeling grief.   Thomas: You spend a good portion of the book talking about how the bride is separating from the father/father figure and the mother/mother figure and the friends. Can you say more about that process?   Paul: Yes, so it can go a few different ways. If the bride is very close to her father, that's one set of emotions and experiences where there is tends to be a lot of grief, a lot of crying, really good, medicinal, necessary crying to make that separation process... and to make it more effective to make it more complete to make it more conscious. Again, in the naming, to say, I am separating from my dad, I am no longer going to be... Yes, I'm his daughter, but not in the same way, not as my primary identity. That my new partner is going to be number one and I'm transferring allegiance. So, that's one example of one way that it can go if if someone's very close to their father. If somebody doesn't have a close relationship with their father or there is no father figure in their life, that's a different kind of grief of the loss of not having had that or never having had that. The same as somebody has passed away. If somebody who's getting married and their mother's no longer alive. You know, that's, that's one way that grief can come through, as opposed to a mother who is very much alive and very much involved. And then there's a separation. There's… there's a loosening of cords that is required.    Thomas: I'm curious as you're speaking how this applies, I'm sure it's very different, but how it applies to folks who were older when they get married, or maybe a second marriage.   Paul: It can be different, it can be similar. It depends. It depends on a lot of factors. But regardless of the age, especially if it's a first marriage and you're getting married at 40, you're still letting go of a massive identity. And in some ways, it's even more of a letting go because of all of those years that you spent as a non-married person. And so there's a lot of grieving, a lot of shedding of the independence, the separateness, all of the control that you have when you are a non-married person, that every inch of your life is your own: your home, your space, how you spend your time, how you organize your weekend, it's all yours. And so that is its own massive death experience for somebody who marries later, you know, and who has had that many more years than someone who's 22 if you're 42, that's a lot of years of being the sole architect of your life.   Thomas: So you work with people around transitions, all kinds of transitions now, and I'm curious if ceremony plays a part in that with them.   Paul: I'm a big fan of ceremony. Because my work is largely over the internet. I'm not the one doing the ceremony with them. I would love to be that person, but I'm not. But I always encourage people to create ceremony and create rituals. And so, you know, if it's somebody getting married... and I've had a lot more men come my way, by the way, since I wrote The Conscious Bride. And I'm thinking of some right now who are in one of my small coaching groups. And he's getting married on Saturday, and I won't, I won't share the specifics, but it's... because it's his story. But it's really beautiful to witness men in their transitional process and the rituals that they come up with because I encourage people to find their own rituals that are meaningful to them. Ways to acknowledge the end of you know, in his sake, his bachelorhood that that time in his life is over. And so he has been sharing these incredibly potent rituals that have come to him for ways of recognizing that that time in his life is over. And what ritual does is, as you know, is it, it concretizes, it makes it and embodies what's happening, so that it brings it out of just that realm of talking about it and it sends it into a realm that we can't see with our five senses, but very much exists and yet calls on the five senses to help transmute the experience into another form. And so rituals help us cross over that sometimes very scary divide that just looks like a big, cavernous, empty space, crossing from one identity to a new identity, from one stage of life to the next. And without the rituals we are... we're pretty lost and so, you know, again, as I, as I said earlier, the wedding is one of the few ceremonies that we have, which comes with ritual. A lot of people tend to minimize or diminish the ceremonial aspect because they're so focused on the party and the reception, you know, that's where all of the energy goes. When really, it's the ceremony that has so much power to carry us over the divide between one stage and the next.   Thomas: And that's something I'm trying to encourage and put seeds out in the world for as well, that people take that the ritual, the ceremony of the marriage, the wedding and they, they feel free to do it their way so that it's powerful and is as powerful and meaningful for the couple as possible.   Paul: Yes, yes! And I think we are at this extraordinary time in our world where we have freedom to do that, where we are breaking out of the traditions that have gone stale and revitalizing them with personal meaning of what is meaningful for you. And there may be long-standing time-honored traditions that are still meaningful. And I'm by no means one to throw everything out that we've come from, because many of those rituals are gorgeous and meaningful - but only if they're meaningful for the individual, right? Only if they land in a place where something inside of you says yes, right? That helps me, that bolsters me, that comforts me. Right? So, you know, whether it's at a Jewish wedding standing under the Chuppah, you know, it's just this beautiful symbol of, of our new home and and this, you know, long standing tradition... if that's meaningful to somebody great. If it's not, then it really.. it's not going to do anything for you on a spiritual level.   I shared with Sheryl that before my wedding, I created a self-commitment ceremony for myself. And in that ceremony I presenced all of my Ancestral grandmothers with the acknowledgement of how important marriage might have been for them, how much of a survival tool. I did this because women's  standing in society has evolved so much even since my mother's generation, but yet we are still connected to our Ancestral legacy and felt like a really important thing to me.    Paul: That's incredibly beautiful that you did that and so powerful and it's probably the number one fear that comes up for women that I'm working with in their pre-wedding time in their engagement, is the fear of what does marriage mean? And does it mean that I am beholden to this person now and I lose all sense of self and I become boring and frumpy and... This is the legacy. This is what we've been handed, right? This is what it has meant for thousands and thousands of years is that for women, marriage has meant really the death of self: I exist, to take care of the man and to take care of the children and that's it. And so there's this very deep ancestral legacy that we have to consciously break with and recognize that we are so lucky and we are so blessed to be on this new threshold, that we get to redefine what marriage means for us. And we only can really know that after we've taken the leap, because on the other side, on the first side, on the engagement side, it just all looks and sounds so scary to most women. And you know, that's why I have so many exercises in The Conscious Bride, more-so I think in The Conscious Bride's Wedding Planner, on what does it mean to be a wife? What does that mean to you? What does the word wife connote? When you think of wife, what is the connotation for you? And it's very rare that someone's going to say, "Oh, I see this rad, sexy woman, you know, like, doing like, the dance on the rooftops." Like, no, that's not usually what we think of when we hear the word wife. But it could be. More and more we are redefining that. And we are seeing that. And so I tell people, but look out into the world today and find those those models of marriage where you see a woman who is doing her life fully, you know, and yes, maybe she's also a mother and she's, you know, loves being married and she's fully committed to her path and and making her offerings, and doing her work in the world. Right? Separate from wife and mother. So, yeah, I love, I love that I love what you share. I love what you did. I think that is not only powerful, but essential on that ceremonial ritual level to recognize what we've come from.   Thomas: I'm just so happy and honored to have the chance to talk to you after, after all this time of really, really, really appreciating your book and your wisdom.   Paul: Yeah, thank you, Colleen.   It means a great deal to me to have the opportunity to share Sheryl's wisdom with you. I hope that you are able to use it or pass it along to a friend. Here's one final bit of wisdom, a quote from The Conscious Bride. "A marriage is a rite of passage no matter when it occurs, and the woman must still pass through the phases of her transformation. She must die, she must sit in the unknown, and then she will be reborn."   Sheryl Paul is the author of The Conscious Bride and The Conscious Bride's Wedding Planner. Her website contains a plethora of resources for addressing life transitions. Learn more about Sheryl and her work at https://conscious-transitions.com. Our music is by Terry Hughes. If you like the show, please take a minute to review it on Apple Podcasts. Learn more at shamepinata.com. I'm Colleen Thomas. Thanks for listening.

In this episode of the Anxiety Reset podcast, Georgie speaks to Sheryl Paul, Jungian counsellor and author of one of Georgie's personal favourite books, the Wisdom of Anxiety. This episode is all about the gift of anxiety and its message to you.   In this episode, Sheryl shares: The two cultural myths that create anxiety What exactly is a highly sensitive person? What is a healthy attachment in relationships? The ecosystem of nervous systems in family groups Are you in the wrong relationship or is it just anxiety?   This episode is a dream come true for Georgie, she can't wait for you to listen to it!   Sheryl's website and blog is conscious-transitions.com and you can follow her @wisdomofanxiety You can find her course Open Your Heart - A 30-Day Course to Feel More Love and Attraction for Your Partner here and you can also listen to her podcast Gathering Gold.  Check out her book The Wisdom of Anxiety at all good bookstores.   __________________________ The Anxiety Reset Method book is available now in all good bookstores across Australia.   Australian Orders online can be made here: booktopia.kh4ffx.net/3Pbokn   International Orders can be made here:  https://www.bookdepository.com/Anxiety-Reset-Method-Georgie-Collinson/9781922863423   Free Masterclass for women with High-Functioning Anxiety: https://anxiety-reset.mykajabi.com/free-masterclass   Apply for a free Anxiety Relief Call to explore becoming a private client: http://bit.ly/anxietyreset   Follow Georgie on Instagram @georgiethenaturopath  

There is much anxiety around being a parent. So much so that it can be paralyzing or have us believing we are “messing” up our kids or otherwise ruining them. There's a place to give ourselves grace and to also recognize where some of those anxieties stem from Join Michelle and the Lovely Sheryl Paul from @wisdomofanxiety as she shares her deep wisdom around parenting and anxiety.   Connect with Sheryl on Instagram @wisdomofanxiety or on her website https://conscious-transitions.com/   I'm answering live parenting questions every week for the members of my Instagram subscription community plus we have a private chat and exclusive videos. It's only $4.99 a month, you can join on my Instagram page and become more connected to your kids. IG: @peaceandparenting   Enjoy today's episode? Please share it with a friend or leave a rating and a review. Working on our own inner hurts and childhood triggers can unravel many of our parenting issues. I do this with journaling and it has helped me work through some icky places in my own past. If you want to try, download my FREE guide: Healing Ourselves Through Journaling.  Are you a coach, or an online course creator? Have an email list you communicate with often? Do you have a website? Kajabi can be your home for all of these and so much more click here and explore all Kajabi has to offer while supporting the Peace and Parenting Podcast at no extra cost to you.  Follow Peace and Parenting: YouTube: Peace and Parenting Instagram: @peaceandparenting Facebook: @peaceandparentingla LinkedIn: @Michelle Kenney M.Ed Peace and Parenting Facebook Group Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music

Wenn die Stimme der Angst in uns laut wird, dann kann es sein, dass es sich fast unmöglich anfühlt, ihren Realitätsgehalt auch nur ein kleines bisschen in Zweifel zu ziehen - und ihren Impulsen nicht automatisch Folge zu leisten. Das hat gute Gründe: Angst ist dafür gemacht, sich sehr real, sehr akut und sehr bedrohlich anzufühlen. Jener Anteil in uns, der uns in bestimmten Situationen solch starke Angstsignale schickt, hat unser Überleben im Sinn und möchte uns so gut wie möglich beschützen - und dafür macht er gern ordentlich Radau. Hilfreich kann es sein, wenn wir lernen, dieser angstvollen Stimme mit ganz viel Mitgefühl zu begegnen: Ihr Empfinden macht Sinn - möglicherweise nicht mehr in der Gegenwart, ganz sicher aber in Hinblick auf unsere Vergangenheit. Heute dürfen wir gleichzeitig lernen, auch noch einer anderen Stimme in uns Gehör zu schenken: Dem weisen, liebevollen, erwachsenen Teil von uns, der uns mit seiner Klarsicht und Gelassenheit sicher durch auch mal wildere Wasser navigieren kann. In der heutigen Podcastfolge teile ich mit dir, wie du lernen kannst, beide Anteile in dir Schritt für Schritt mehr wahrzunehmen, voneinander zu unterscheiden - und auf wohltuende Weise miteinander in Verbindung zu bringen. Alles Liebe für dich, deine Anne.P.S.: Das Buch, das ich erwähne, ist "Achtsamkeit statt Angst und Panik" von Peter Beer. Ein anderes, ebenfalls sehr hilfreiches Buch zum Thema ist "The wisdom of anxiety. How worry and intrusive thoughts are gifts to help you heal." von Sheryl Paul. (unbezahlte Werbung)BERATUNG Wenn du spürst, dass du dir über die Folge hinaus Unterstützung auf deinem persönlichen Weg in eine liebevollere, mitfühlendere Zukunft wünscht, begleite ich dich als Systemische Beraterin mit viel Freude und Feingefühl auf deinem Weg. Unter anneweissberatung.de findest du alle Infos über Möglichkeiten, dich von mir in deinem Prozess unterstützen zu lassen.FRAG ANNEMöchtest du selbst eine Frage für den Podcast stellen? Das geht ganz einfach und anonym unter anneweissberatung.de/fraganne.VERBINDE DICH MIT MIRAnsonsten gilt wie immer: Verbinde dich sehr gern mit mir über instagram.com/annekristinaweiss oder schreib mir eine Mail unter hallo@anneweissberatung.de.DEN PODCAST UNTERSTÜTZENFalls dich meine Arbeit schon eine Weile begleitet und du den Podcast als hilfreich erlebst, freue ich mich riesig über eine positive Bewertung oder Rezension auf Apple Podcasts oder Spotify - auf diese Weise kann der Podcast nämlich noch leichter gefunden werden und andere Menschen erreichen. Hab ganz herzlichen Dank!    

In episode 352 I invited 18 past guests to share their words of wisdom or hope with you to celebrate reaching 5 million downloads since 2015. Thank you to all my past guests for sharing their stories or expertise, and thank you to you for listening or spreading the show with others. I hope this episode educates and inspires.  Therapists and advocates on this episode (in order) are: Dr Jon Abramowitz, Sheryl Paul, Sheva Rajaee, Laura Johnson, Jenna Overbaugh, Dr Michael Greenberg, Jonny Say, Margaret Sisson, Dr Steven Phillipson, Kimberley Quinlan, Alejandro Ibarra, Dr Michael Twohig, Dr Patricia Zurita Ona, Dr Sam Greenblatt, Chrissie Hodges, Aaron Harvey, Dr Amy Mariaskin, and Sean Shinnock.   Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/5-million-352  The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers effective, convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. To find out more about NOCD, their therapy plans and if they currently take your insurance head over to https://go.treatmyocd.com/theocdstories

After a day of “doing” Chesed, Kylie sits down with an expert in the field. Sheryl Paul is a counselor specializing in relationship anxiety and the author of The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal, one of Kylie's favorite books.  In this 7-week series, Kylie Unell, host of How To Fix A Soul In 30 Days, invites you on her daily journey to make meaning out of this age-old tradition. Each week of the Omer corresponds to a different attribute of God. On each episode, airing weekdays, Kylie explores these various attributes by talking, reading, doing, speaking, and reflecting.  49 Days to Stretch My Soul is a production of Tablet Studios. The show is hosted by Kylie Unell, and is produced and edited by Darone Ruskay, Josh Kross, Quinn Waller, Robert Scaramuccia and Sara Fredman Aeder. Our team includes Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz, Mark Oppenheimer, and Tanya Singer.  Please rate us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps other people discover the show.   You can follow @kylieunell on Instagram. Write to us at podcasts@tabletmag.com. Read more of Tablet's Omer coverage here.  For more information about all of Tablet's podcasts, visit Tabletmag.com/podcasts. 

In this episode, Sheryl Paul brings her incredible wisdom about anxiety and intrusive thoughts in a way that I've never heard before. After reading her powerful book, The Wisdom of Anxiety, and devouring her content on Instagram, I was thrilled that she accepted my request to go into detail about her work. This is one you don't want to miss, even if you don't struggle with anxiety or identify as a highly sensitive person.We cover:Her journey with anxiety as a highly sensitive personRaising two sons, who are also HSP, and tips for other parentsIntrusive thoughts: what are they + the most common onesMetaphors from the subconsciousJungian psychologySelf-responsibility + self-trustFear of deathHow to know if a thought is true or false+ a whole lot more!Sheryl's courses + websiteInstagram: @wisdomofanxietyThe Wisdom of Anxiety bookResources mentioned:The highly sensitive personHold me tightBraiding SweetgrassFeedback? Questions? Comments? Head on over to Instagram and let me know in my DMs!  FREE trainings!4 Steps to Stop Overeating 4 Step Framework to Stop Obsessing about FoodHealthy Habit Foundations Course 

In episode 317 I chat with Sheryl Paul and Sheva Rajaee. Sheryl is a counselor informed by Jungian depth psychology, and author of the book The wisdom of anxiety. Sheva is a psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and other related anxiety disorders, and author of the book Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic. We discuss what is love, why settling for a partner is ok, highly sensitive people in love, what it means to be in a romantic relationship, ways of dealing with rOCD, learning to listen to the wise mind over the anxious mind, explaining to friends that it's OCD and not normal relationship concerns, sharing relationship OCD with your partner without hurting their feelings, self-esteem and self-love, and much more. Hope it helps.  Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/sheryl-and-sheva-317 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. NOCD offers affordable, effective, convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. To find out more about NOCD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance, or to download their free app, head over to https://go.treatmyocd.com/theocdstories

Everyone experienced a transformation during Laura's wedding, including Rocket. This episode has it all: seasonal anxiety, archetypes about princesses and queens, Laura's obsession with Sheryl Paul, and a very important reference to Derek Delgaudio, the magician. Bay and Laura want your suggestions for the official WoW Cocktail Menu, in addition to their original cocktail, Drug Aboos.

This week's episode we are talking about the opportunity autumn brings to let go of what is no longer serving us. Book & Poem Mentioned: The Wisdom of Anxiety by Sheryl Paul and An Ode to Autumn & Letting Go by Anna Palmer Follow me on Instagram and TikTok @julhouseholder

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

Rach takes her podcast for a walk because she doesn't have a dog. S15 reading list

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In today's episode, Gina offers listeners a number of thoughtful quotes taken from authors of books covering the topic of highly sensitive persons.  Additionally, the beginning of a list of 21 signs of being a highly sensitive person are shared.  Listen in for information about what being a highly sensitive person means and how you can use this knowledge to live better today! Episode supported by Ned If you want to check out Ned and try their CBD for yourself, we have a special offer for the Anxiety Coaches Podcast audience. Go to https://www.helloned.com/ACP or enter ACP at checkout for 15% off your first one-time order or 20% off your first subscription order plus FREE shipping. Thank you Ned! Please visit today's awesome sponsor! Better Help is bringing you thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month! https://betterhelp.com/acp discount code acp Book mentioned in today's episode The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron Phd https://amzn.to/2SWJAxo Article mentioned in today's episode Highly Sensitive Refuge and the 21 signs of an HSP https://highlysensitiverefuge.com/ Join the NEW ACP SUPERCAST PREMIUM AD-FREE MEMBERSHIP https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/adfree Listen to the entire back catalog ad-free and more! https://anxietycoaches.supercast.tech To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Highly sensitive people learned early in life to try to control the external world as a way to attempt to manage their inner one. ―Sheryl Paul

In episode 279 I chat with Sheryl Paul. Sheryl is a counselor informed by Jungian depth psychology, and author of the book The wisdom of anxiety. In this episode we chat about her story, transitions such as marriage, birth, death and the anxiety they can bring. We discuss the highly sensitive person, we talk a lot about relationship anxiety, we explore differing views of OCD and the integration of certain therapies with CBT, we discuss a Jungian view of OCD, the spirituality and beauty of ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) and facing fear as an innate human skill, the timetable of healing, emptiness, the Jungian idea of gathering gold, and much more more. Hope it helps.  Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/sheryl-paul-279 The podcast is made possible by NOCD. To find out more about NOCD, their therapy plans and if they currently take your insurance head over to https://go.treatmyocd.com/theocdstories Next monthly zoom hangout with Stuart is on Saturday 5th June. Come chat about the show. Pay what you can/want: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ocd-stories-monthly-zoom-catchup-with-stuart-ralph-tickets-153180630389 See you then. 

Based on the AWESOME book “The Wisdom of Anxiety” by Sheryl Paul, I cover the strong connection between “what if?!” thoughts and anxiety. I've dealt with this on a deep level myself and it's my hope and prayer that you can detect anxiety indicators and deal with them on a serious level. I am not a professional in any way, so please seek professional help if needed. However, I have experienced mental health issues and have, thank God, survived them....so I'm no novice on the topic of anxiety!!!! Take a listen and hopefully you benefit from Sheryl Paul's expertise on dealing with anxiety.

In Part 2 of our conversation about learning to parent ourselves, Sheryl Paul and I get into even deeper and richer territory--the territory of heart and soul.  We talk about tuning into what's happening in our bodies and in our hearts, and having patience and compassion for whatever we find. We talk about both reaching out for connection and strengthening our inner sense of self. And then there's the most mysterious but equally important key to parenting ourselves that Sheryl speaks to at the end of the episode--connecting to something bigger than us.  

My first-ever Perennials guest is back! This time, beloved therapist and author (whom I'm lucky to call my aunt!) Sheryl Paul and I are talking about learning to parent ourselves. This topic comes up a lot in Sheryl's work as a therapist: the practice of strengthening the part of ourselves that can hold space for big feelings, offer ourselves and others compassion and, with steady wisdom, discern how to act in accordance with our values.  In addition to talking about relating to our emotions, we also talk about the extremely practical, mundane parts of parenting ourselves: taking responsibility for the less fun parts of life, like basic household upkeep, and how to work with resistance around these tasks.  Stay tuned for Part 2 of our conversation next week! 

With a decade of sales experience, Jeff understands the importance of Mental Health in achieving peak sales performance. Battling anxiety, insomnia and panic attacks throughout his sales career - Jeff has used his knowledge of Mental Health to inspire sales teams to reach their full potential through better Mental Health and well-being. This became especially important, when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in the summer of 2018. The same strategies involving - mindsets, perspective, self-awareness, empathy, self-control, mindfulness, optimism, grit and habits - that made him successful in sales also aided in his swift recovery. As a successful individual contributor, sales leader and of late - sales mentor/consultant - Jeff has experience working with sales teams of any size at any stage of growth. Jeff is the primary voice of the Sales Health Alliance and available for Speaking Engagements, Custom Tailored Workshops and One on One consulting projects. During our chat, Jeff shared insights from the book "The Wisdom of Anxiety" by Sheryl Paul and also recommended "Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization" by Scott Berry Kaufman as a great resource for mental health study. amazon.com/thewisdomofanxietybook amazon.com/transcendbook Jeff also mentioned that he has a series of e-books that can be accessed here: saleshealthalliance.com/category/e-books/ For all other information about Jeff's trainings, insights and consulting, head over to his Sales Health Alliance website at: saleshealthalliance.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stickaround/support

The pain, grief, discomfort, and vulnerability that can arise throughout the wedding process can actually be doorways into joy if we are willing to let them in. Sheryl Paul speaks about her book "The Conscious Bride" which addresses the MANY feelings that can arise around a wedding for everyone involved. Music by Terry Hughes Inspired to create something for yourself? Visit https://ever-changing.net/ Links: Sheryl Paul's work: https://conscious-transitions.com The Conscious Bride: https://conscious-transitions.com/books ---- Full Transcript Paul: I'm always interested in what's not being talked about what people are experiencing, but are trying to stuff away, trying to sequester, trying to sweep into the corner under the rug... when all that does is create shame and all that does is create anxiety. Sheryl Paul has a unique ability to see the invisible, to see what has been silenced. Her book "The Conscious Bride" has been helping couples prepare for marriage for 20 years - and prepare in a very specific way. Her work helps couples create room for all of the emotions that come with transition, not just the picture perfect ones. Funny thing is, that allows for even more joy. Join me for a conversation with Sheryl Paul. This is Shame Piñata. I’m Colleen Thomas. Welcome to Shame Piñata, where we talk about creating rites of passage for real-life transitions. When I got engaged six years ago, a good friend of mine gave me a book called "The Conscious Bride". Now, I'm not a reader, as my husband will tell you, but I devoured this book. I loved it because it touched on the shadow, the stuff we don't talk about, the stuff that gets in our way when we want to feel one way but actually feel a myriad of other ways all at the same time. It named the shadow that hovers over the wedding: the attachment, the fear, the uncertainty, the hidden power-struggles and the grief that lies beneath them, and that a big part of stepping into a new life is letting go of the old one - and not just for the couple. The Conscious Bride gave me permission to feel all the ways, and it helped me create room for everyone else to feel all the ways too so, ultimately, we could all process the transition without getting into weird fights about random things. I was so happy to have a chance to speak with Sheryl Paul. Thomas: So what led you to write this book? Paul: So, I was in a master's program around that time. I was at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, which I don't know if you're familiar with, but it has a very strong Jungian focus. And I had always been interested in rites of passages and I had a deep sense that there was a lot that was not being talked about around the wedding. And I started to interview women and I did a lot of interviews, especially when it came time to write the book, which came from my master's thesis. So it started out as as a thesis and then evolve into a book. And I started to see that there was a big gap in the cultural conversation around around transitions in general. All transitions are bypassed and overlooked, but particularly the wedding and then in particular, how much focus there is on the joy and the perfection and everything has to be blissful and ecstatic from the moment of the proposal into the first year of the wedding, and there was just no conversation happening about the shadow, about the death experience, about what women (and men) are actually experiencing quite a bit of a time. And, you know, the more I researched and the more I looked and the more I spoke, the more it became quite clear to me that just that again, that there was a real gap in the conversation around this pivotal rite of passage, one of our few ceremonies that we still invoke in the culture. And yet it's done in such a way where we really gloss over the element of a transition, of the reality that when you are in transition, you are in a death experience, you are in a liminal zone, you are between identities, you are letting go, you are grieving. And we only expect people to feel joyful. It creates a lot of anxiety and it creates even more chaos than there naturally would be around an event like this. Because I'm feeling sad, because I have a sense of loss, because I feel like a part of me is dying, because I'm not over-the-moon ecstatic... something must be wrong with me, or with my partner, or with the decision to get married - something's wrong. And it's an incredibly deep sigh of relief to the soul to know that nothing is wrong. In fact, the more you let those difficult feelings in, the more you will open to the joy; that the pain and the grief and the discomfort and vulnerability are the doorways into the joy, into what we are expected to see all and into what we hope to feel. And what I started to say earlier was that that the wedding more than any other transition, I think, has (probably being pregnant becoming a mother comes close) carries a very strong cultural expectation of unilateral joy and it is supported in a big way by the wedding industry that sells perfection and sells joy. So it's a it's very big money behind selling us the bill of goods by selling us this message that you are supposed to be joyful and the way to do that is to create a perfect event. Thomas: How do you work with someone if they're just starting to realize that they don't have to only feel joyful? Paul: So, I tell them to read my book. And, you know, it's really the first part it's about re educating people to understand all of the normal and necessary feelings that accompany this transition. And once they understand that everything they're feeling is normal and necessary, they can start to let it in and and feel it, feel the grief, feel the loss, feel the vulnerability, feel the loneliness. These are all normal feelings that accompany transitions. So once we give ourselves permission to feel without that overlay of "because I'm feeling this it means there's something wrong" everything changes from there. We don't then have to misassign meaning to the feelings and to think, "Because I'm feeling sad, it means I'm making mistake." No, it has nothing to do with that. You're feeling sad because you are in a rite of passage. You're feeling sad because you are in the death experience, letting go of this identity, this primary identity as single person, as daughter, and shifting into an entirely new stage of life, a new identity. And there is no way to go through that without feeling grief. Thomas: You spend a good portion of the book talking about how the bride is separating from the father/father figure and the mother/mother figure and the friends. Can you say more about that process? Paul: Yes, so it can go a few different ways. If the bride is very close to her father, that's one set of emotions and experiences where there is tends to be a lot of grief, a lot of crying, really good, medicinal, necessary crying to make that separation process... and to make it more effective to make it more complete to make it more conscious. Again, in the naming, to say, I am separating from my dad, I am no longer going to be... Yes, I'm his daughter, but not in the same way, not as my primary identity. That my new partner is going to be number one and I'm transferring allegiance. So, that's one example of one way that it can go if if someone's very close to their father. If somebody doesn't have a close relationship with their father or there is no father figure in their life, that's a different kind of grief of the loss of not having had that or never having had that. The same as somebody has passed away. If somebody who's getting married and their mother's no longer alive. You know, that's, that's one way that grief can come through, as opposed to a mother who is very much alive and very much involved. And then there's a separation. There's, there's a loosening of cords that is required. Thomas: I'm curious as you're speaking how this applies, I'm sure it's very different, but how it applies to folks who were older when they get married, or maybe a second marriage. Paul: It can be different, it can be similar. It depends. It depends on a lot of factors. But regardless of the age, especially if it's a first marriage and you're getting married at 40, you're still letting go of a massive identity. And in some ways, it's even more of a letting go because of all of those years that you spent as a non-married person. And so there's a lot of grieving, a lot of shedding of the independence, the separateness, all of the control that you have when you are a non-married person, that every inch of your life is your own: your home, your space, how you spend your time, how you organize your weekend, it's all yours. And so that is its own massive death experience for somebody who marries later, you know, and who has had that many more years than someone who's 22 if you're 42, that's a lot of years of being the sole architect of your life. Thomas: So you work with people around transitions, all kinds of transitions now, and I'm curious if ceremony plays a part in that with them. Paul: I'm a big fan of ceremony. Because my work is largely over the internet. I'm not the one doing the ceremony with them. I would love to be that person, but I'm not. But I always encourage people to create ceremony and create rituals. And so, you know, if it's somebody getting married... and I've had a lot more men come my way, by the way, since I wrote The Conscious Bride. And I'm thinking of some right now who are in one of my small coaching groups. And he's getting married on Saturday, and I won't, I won't share the specifics, but it's... because it's his story. But it's really beautiful to witness men in their transitional process and the rituals that they come up with because I encourage people to find their own rituals that are meaningful to them. Ways to acknowledge the end of you know, in his sake, his bachelorhood that that time in his life is over. And so he has been sharing these incredibly potent rituals that have come to him for ways of recognizing that that time in his life is over. And what ritual does is, as you know, is it, it concretizes, it makes it and embodies what's happening, so that it brings it out of just that realm of talking about it and it sends it into a realm that we can't see with our five senses, but very much exists and yet calls on the five senses to help transmute the experience into another form. And so rituals help us cross over that sometimes very scary divide that just looks like a big, cavernous, empty space, crossing from one identity to a new identity, from one stage of life to the next. And without the rituals we are... we're pretty lost and so, you know, again, as I, as I said earlier, the wedding is one of the few ceremonies that we have, which comes with ritual. A lot of people tend to minimize or diminish the ceremonial aspect because they're so focused on the party and the reception, you know, that's where all of the energy goes. When really, it's the ceremony that has so much power to carry us over the divide between one stage and the next. Thomas: And that's something I'm trying to encourage and put seeds out in the world for as well, that people take that the ritual, the ceremony of the marriage, the wedding and they, they feel free to do it their way so that it's powerful and is as powerful and meaningful for the couple as possible. Paul: Yes, yes! And I think we are at this extraordinary time in our world where we have freedom to do that, where we are breaking out of the traditions that have gone stale and revitalizing them with personal meaning of what is meaningful for you. And there may be long-standing time-honored traditions that are still meaningful. And I'm by no means one to throw everything out that we've come from, because many of those rituals are gorgeous and meaningful - but only if they're meaningful for the individual, right? Only if they land in a place where something inside of you says yes, right? That helps me, that bolsters me, that comforts me. Right? So, you know, whether it's at a Jewish wedding standing under the Chuppah, you know, it's just this beautiful symbol of, of our new home and and this, you know, long standing tradition... if that's meaningful to somebody great. If it's not, then it really.. it's not going to do anything for you on a spiritual level. I shared with Sheryl that before my wedding, I created self-commitment ceremony for myself. And in that ceremony I presenced all of my Ancestral grandmothers with the acknowledgement of how important marriage might have been for them, how much of a survival tool. I did this because women’s standing in society has evolved so much even since my mother's generation, but yet we are still connected to our Ancestral legacy and felt like a really important thing to me. Paul: That's incredibly beautiful that you did that and so powerful and it's probably the number one fear that comes up for women that I'm working with in their pre-wedding time in their engagement, is the fear of what does marriage mean? And does it mean that that I am beholden to this person now and I lose all sense of self and I become boring and frumpy and... This is this is the legacy. This is what we've been handed, right? This is what it has meant for thousands and thousands of years is that for women, marriage has meant really the death of self: I exist, to take care of the man and to take care of the children and that's it. And so there's this very deep ancestral legacy that we have to consciously break with and recognize that we are so lucky and we are so blessed to be on this new threshold, that we get to redefine what marriage means for us. And we only can really know that after we've taken the leap, because on the other side, on the first side, on the engagement side, it just all looks and sounds so scary to most women. And you know, that's why I have so many exercises in The Conscious Bride, more-so I think in The Conscious Bride's Wedding Planner, on what does it mean to be a wife? What does that mean to you? What does the word wife connote? When you think of wife, what is the connotation for you? And it's very rare that someone's going to say, "Oh, I see this rad, sexy woman, you know, like, doing like, the dance on the rooftops." Like, no, that's not usually what we think of when we hear the word wife. But it could be. More and more we are redefining that. And we are seeing that. And so I tell people, but look out into the world today and find those those models of marriage where you see a woman who is doing her life fully, you know, and yes, maybe she's also a mother and she's, you know, loves being married and she's fully committed to her path and and making her offerings, and doing her work in the world. Right? Separate from wife and mother. So, yeah, I love, I love that I love what you share. I love what you did. I think that is not only powerful, but essential on that ceremonial ritual level to recognize what we've come from. Thomas: I'm just so happy and honored to have the chance to talk to you after, after all this time of really, really, really appreciating your book and your wisdom. Paul: Yeah, thank you, Colleen. It means a great deal to me to have the opportunity to share Sheryl's wisdom with you. I hope that you are able to use it or pass it along to a friend. Here's one final bit of wisdom, a quote from The Conscious Bride. "A marriage is a rite of passage no matter when it occurs, and the woman must still pass through the phases of her transformation. She must die, she must sit in the unknown, and then she will be reborn." Sheryl Paul is the author of The Conscious Bride and The Conscious Bride's Wedding Planner. Her website contains a plethora of resources for addressing life transitions. Learn more about Sheryl and her work at https://conscious-transitions.com/ Our music is by Terry Hughes. If you like the show, please take a minute to review it on Apple Podcasts. Learn more at shamepinata.com. I’m Colleen Thomas. Thanks for listening.

Show notes:- Axis Mundi on the Web | Instagram- Connect with Brooke on Instagram- Brooke's body image course- Sheryl Paul (therapist)If you Liked This Episode Try Out:- Episode 252 with Adam Straussnew to *let it out* --> start with these linkskatie's site: https://katiedalebout.com/our start here guide: https://letitouttt.com/general/start-here/++ LET IT OUT letter katie's book: https://amzn.to/2W4bHufwant to start a podcast? letapodcastout.club 

Do you struggle with Relationship Anxiety? Do you tend to leave relationship after relationship .. only to find yourself experiencing the same fears and anxieties over and over again? Do you feel like you can get in touch with the love and connection you have for your partner only (after) you have broken up with them? Well .. you are SO not alone! I am so excited to introduce today’s special guest, Sheryl Paul. She is an incredible and compassionate expert on anxiety. Sheryl has a Master’s Degree in Jungian Psychology and has worked with thousands of people worldwide through her private practice. She has appeared several times on The Oprah Winfrey Show as well as on Good Morning America and other top media shows and publications around the globe. In this episode, we dive into: ~What Relationship Anxiety actually is. ~Understanding and working with projection in order to become more whole and integrated. ~The difference between FLAGS and RED FLAGS. You can learn more about Sheryl and read her blogs and dive into her fabulous online relationship course on her website here @ https://conscious-transitions.com/ You can find her Instagram page @ https://www.instagram.com/wisdomofanxiety/ You can find her book, “The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal” @ https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Anxiety-Worry-Intrusive-Thoughts/dp/1683642503

In this episode, Sheryl Paul reads from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman. Paul is a counselor working in the tradition of Jungian depth psychology. She runs the popular blog and website, Conscious Transitions, and is the author, most recently, of The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry & Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal. Paul writes of anxiety not as a disorder to be eradicated, but as a wise messenger from the unconscious and an invitation to self-trust. A key companion on Paul’s own journey to self-trust has been the legendary American poet Walt Whitman. His 52-part epic, "Song of Myself", first published in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, is among the most beloved and influential poems in the American tradition. Keep up with Sheryl Paul on Instagram, Facebook, and at conscious-transitions.com. We feature one short listener poem at the end of every episode. To submit, call the Haiku Hotline at 612-440-0643 and read your poem after the beep. For the occasional prompt, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Subscribe on RadioPublic, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher. https://radiopublic.com/interesting-people-reading-poetry-60aNDL/s1!9624b

In dieser, frei vom Herzen gesprochenen Folge geht es darum, sich nach innen zu kehren, um sich zuzuhören. Gerade im Winter, die Zeit der Stille, können wir die leise Stimme unseres Herzens besonders gut wahrnehmen und die Botschaften hinter unserer Angst heraushören. Es geht auch um den Druck sich immer weiterentwickeln zu müssen, um etwas zu erreichen oder endlich gut genug zu sein. Erwähnt habe ich: The Wisdom of Anxiety - Sheryl Paul Contact me: Instagram: @miriambrennig Email: peacefulselfproject@gmail.com Insight Timer: http://insig.ht/miriambrennig Ich wünsche dir eine wunderbare Zeit!

Featuring highlights from the previous conversation with Sheryl Paul, author of The Wisdom of Anxiety, in addition to listeners comments, and a guided meditation.

Featuring highlights from the previous conversation with Sheryl Paul, author of The Wisdom of Anxiety, in addition to listeners comments, and a guided meditation.

Sheryl Paul, author and counselor joins the conversation for the 4th time to talk about her newest book The Wisdom of Anxiety. Packed with insight, support and wisdom to help normalize and mitigate anxiety for you and for the children and friends and loved ones in your life." Anxiety is a doorway." Sheryl Paulwww.Conscious-Transitions.comwww.JulieinConversations.comShare this conversation with your friends. Write a review on Apple Podcasts and/or send me your comments. Help support the podcast and be with it as it soars, impacts and supports others. Monthly or a one time donation.www.JulieinConversation.com or www.Patreon.com/JulieinConversationCheers. Thanks for listening and thanks for committing to your wellbeing and being yourself

Sheryl Paul, author and counselor joins the conversation for the 4th time to talk about her newest book The Wisdom of Anxiety. Packed with insight, support and wisdom to help normalize and mitigate anxiety for you and for the children and friends and loved ones in your life." Anxiety is a doorway." Sheryl Paulwww.Conscious-Transitions.comwww.JulieinConversations.comShare this conversation with your friends. Write a review on Apple Podcasts and/or send me your comments. Help support the podcast and be with it as it soars, impacts and supports others. Monthly or a one time donation.www.JulieinConversation.com or www.Patreon.com/JulieinConversationCheers. Thanks for listening and thanks for committing to your wellbeing and being yourself

If you've ever wanted less worries in your life, then do we have the Wisdom of Anxiety show for you. Today I'll be talking with Sheryl Paul, depth psychology counselor and author of a beautiful book on helping you to heal, The Wisdom of Anxiety. And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about how worry and intrusive thoughts are gifts to help you heal. Topics Include: What synchronicities lead Sheryl Paul from leaving the comfort zone to discover her shadow self in Brazil? What is the call to turn inward, and why do we need to heed the call? What exactly is anxiety, and where does it come from? What do symbols, metaphors and imagery have to do with our anxiety??? What's wrong with calling anxiety a “disorder” or a problem, or as wrong?? What does our childhood (and bullying for that matter) have to do with anxiety? What's the genetic component of worrying, and what if we come from a long line of worriers? What dos mainstream culture have to do with anxiety??? What's a media diet and why do we want one now??? What are the top two cultural messages that create anxiety? What's the myth of “normal”? What's wrong with the expectation of happiness? What's the danger of “should”? What's the danger of transitions, such as August to September??? What's the importance of journaling? What are some spiritual practices to help us heal from our anxiety? What are the four steps to face anxiety and help us to grow from it? To find out more visit: conscious-transitions.com and be sure to check out Sheryl's 9 month course!!! And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com  And to support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation   And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive 

Cathy and Todd discuss Sheryl Paul's book The Wisdom of Anxiety, and why anxiety is an opportunity to be curious rather than afraid. They discuss how compassion, stillness, and gratitude play a role in understanding and coping with anxiety, and why anxiety is a wound and a messenger. They also discuss the Equal Rights Amendment and how it hasn't yet been ratified by 38 states.

Cathy and Todd discuss Sheryl Paul’s book The Wisdom of Anxiety, and why anxiety is an opportunity to be curious rather than afraid. They discuss how compassion, stillness, and gratitude play a role in understanding and coping with anxiety, and why anxiety is a wound and a messenger. They also discuss the Equal Rights Amendment and how it hasn’t yet been ratified by 38 states.

Sheryl Paul is a counselor in the depth psychology tradition who has helped thousands of people through her website, online courses, and books. With Sounds True, she has released the new book, The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Sheryl about why we should consider anxiety "a distress flare from the subconscious" that is meant to alert us to unspoken and unacknowledged inner truths. Sheryl explains why running away or numbing out from anxiety is ultimately futile, and describes how opening to one's anxious thoughts can summon valuable personal epiphanies. Tami and Sheryl also talk about what it means to develop our wise inner parent and how we can examine the meaning of intrusive thoughts. Finally, they discuss the importance of positive daily rituals and why life transitions are so acutely stressful. (69 minutes)

Favourite bits and brand new hits from the series #Motherhood #LetsCreateAVillage with host Julie Cusmariu. In Part 1, Celebrated author, and one of the most respected voices in the psychology of women, Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. returns to the conversation to talk about creating and maintaining healthy relationships when kids are in the picture. Other highlights include wisdom shared from Sheryl Paul, Madonna Maher, Dr. Christine Carter, Anna Seewald and Dr. Elizabeth Cohen. Listen all the way through to benefit from all the helpful tips and deep insights shared on relationships, the keys to happiness, the transitions we experience through motherhood and more.Show notes:What you will find in the podcast and when:Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.: Begins at *11:40 *A conversation on creating a healthy relationship when kids are in the picture. Great practical tips and so much deep insight.The Mother DanceThe Dance of AngerWhy Won't You Apologizewww.HarrietLerner.comSheryl Paul: *46:28 * " I'm sure you've seen with your kids, with each notch of their own independence, you gain a little piece of your own self back."www.Conscious-Transitions.comMadonna Maher: 56 mins. On fulfilling the unmet needs of our child self..." We have to start really mothering ourselves."Anna Seewald, M.E.D, parenting educator, psychologist, speaker*59 mins*"Try to seek positive experiences in your day, in your life, there are many. They don't have to be level 10. They can be ordinary experiences." "Try to absorb goodness. In order to change our mind we need to experience those experiences for 12 seconds longer..."www.AuthenticParenting.comDr. Elizabeth Cohen, NY city based Clinical Psychologist*1:08:18Dr. Elizabeth Cohen walks Julie through a relatable parenting moment. Related to shifting gears, changing hats from being at home to being at work. Dr. Elizabeth Cohen also shared about her personal journey through Divorce to being in a healthy loving relationship and how she helps clients heal through divorce and live radiant  lives. www.DrElizabethCohen.comDr. Christine Carter, Author, Sociologist, Happiness Expert*1:39:50Latest scientific research on productivity and happiness.She shares the key to happiness and insight into her Ted talk: The Power of Truth TellingIf you are gaining benefit from these conversations, consider helping to keep this podcast going, improving and reaching far and wide. You can donate once or monthly.here on my web site with the donation button (scroll a little bit ) www.JulieinConversation.com or on my Patreon page. www.Patreon.com/JulieinConversation. Thank you, thank you.Here's to celebrating you. Cheers.For more episodes visit www.JulieinConversation.com

Favourite bits and brand new hits from the series #Motherhood #LetsCreateAVillage with host Julie Cusmariu. In Part 1, Celebrated author, and one of the most respected voices in the psychology of women, Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. returns to the conversation to talk about creating and maintaining healthy relationships when kids are in the picture. Other highlights include wisdom shared from Sheryl Paul, Madonna Maher, Dr. Christine Carter, Anna Seewald and Dr. Elizabeth Cohen. Listen all the way through to benefit from all the helpful tips and deep insights shared on relationships, the keys to happiness, the transitions we experience through motherhood and more.Show notes:What you will find in the podcast and when:Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.: Begins at *11:40 *A conversation on creating a healthy relationship when kids are in the picture. Great practical tips and so much deep insight.The Mother DanceThe Dance of AngerWhy Won't You Apologizewww.HarrietLerner.comSheryl Paul: *46:28 * " I'm sure you've seen with your kids, with each notch of their own independence, you gain a little piece of your own self back."www.Conscious-Transitions.comMadonna Maher: 56 mins. On fulfilling the unmet needs of our child self..." We have to start really mothering ourselves."Anna Seewald, M.E.D, parenting educator, psychologist, speaker*59 mins*"Try to seek positive experiences in your day, in your life, there are many. They don't have to be level 10. They can be ordinary experiences." "Try to absorb goodness. In order to change our mind we need to experience those experiences for 12 seconds longer..."www.AuthenticParenting.comDr. Elizabeth Cohen, NY city based Clinical Psychologist*1:08:18Dr. Elizabeth Cohen walks Julie through a relatable parenting moment. Related to shifting gears, changing hats from being at home to being at work. Dr. Elizabeth Cohen also shared about her personal journey through Divorce to being in a healthy loving relationship and how she helps clients heal through divorce and live radiant  lives. www.DrElizabethCohen.comDr. Christine Carter, Author, Sociologist, Happiness Expert*1:39:50Latest scientific research on productivity and happiness.She shares the key to happiness and insight into her Ted talk: The Power of Truth TellingIf you are gaining benefit from these conversations, consider helping to keep this podcast going, improving and reaching far and wide. You can donate once or monthly.here on my web site with the donation button (scroll a little bit ) www.JulieinConversation.com or on my Patreon page. www.Patreon.com/JulieinConversation. Thank you, thank you.Here's to celebrating you. Cheers.For more episodes visit www.JulieinConversation.com

Informed by the Jungian depth psychological tradition through her graduate training and particularly the work of Marion Woodman and Robert Johnson, Sheryl Paul is a devotee of the unconscious. She says "our culture tells us that anxiety is the problem but the truth is that it’s the distress flare signaling that it’s time to slow down and discover what needs attention in the interior realms of self. When we shift our mindset from one that sees anxiety as the problem and evidence of brokenness to one that views it as a gift filled with wisdom, everything changes." Through her books, online courses, private sessions, and blog, Sheryl has guided thousands of people worldwide. Alanis Morissette says Sheryl has been a teacher, a sister, and an inspiring visionary in her life since her twenties. Sheryl has appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, “Good Morning America” and other top media shows, and in publications around the globe. Her new book, "The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts are Gifts to Help You Heal," will be published by Sounds True this month. Find out more about Sheryl here: https://conscious-transitions.com/ Join our growing online podcast community: https://www.facebook.com/somethingbetterpodcast/ www.somethingbetterpodcast.com email Amy: somethingbetterpodcast@gmail.com www.amyloftus.com Upcoming FREE online event: SUPPORT FOR SINGLES in a LIVE ZOOM call with Amy on Higher Purpose Dating Sat. May 18 12pmPST 3pmEST For more info: check instagram @iamamyloftus @somethingbetterpodcast or the FB fan page For even more support, join our growing secret FB page by messaging Amy on FB Google voice line: 323-999-1536

Sheryl Paul, therapist, online course creator, & best selling author, has been interviewed by Oprah multiple times, and works with celebrities like Alanis Morissette. And she knows love and relationship anxiety! Her work is seriously like a How To Date/Love/Be in a Relationship Guide that everyone should receive as a course at an early age! Being single, desiring a relationship, dating, or being in a long-term relationship, it's all difficult. But you don’t see that on your friend’s high light reels or in Disney movies! "What we do learn (about relationships) we absorb from popular culture, which largely derives its wisdom from the Disney paradigm of love: Meet, fall in love, know you've met "the One", feel instantly and always attracted, have wild, passionate sex, live happily ever after. Perhaps the most damaging message we receive is that love is supposed to be easy. Without a paradigm that allows for difficult times, and even expects difficulty as it understands that intimate relationships are an opportunity to heal ourselves and grow our capacity to give and receive love, it's frightfully easy to run when the going gets tough.” Truths: Love is like oatmeal, warm and secure. Love is complicated and messy. Love is a skill that can be grown. Attraction ebbs and flows. Sex requires it’s own manual. Love is not something you get from your partner. Romance isn’t only candlelit dinners and roses. Real love always includes fear. There will be times when you want to jump ship. Take time to educate yourself about “projection.” Just because you have a thought doesn’t mean it’s true Resources: Find Sheryl's work at www.conscious-transitions.com (*new website launch coming soon*)

Despite wanting to find love, most of us hate dating because it makes us feel all sorts of crazy. That crazy, uncomfortable feeling is not a sign that you need to runaway to the monastery. That feeling is anxiety. What's tricky is that often we don't know it's anxiety. Instead, we think that feeling means "this isn't the right thing," or "I shouldn't be dating," or "I'm not ready to date," or "Maybe I shouldn't be dating the opposite sex," and so on. Recognizing anxiety, and then understanding what triggers your anxiety, is going to be a huge part of your dating success. In hopes of bringing this super important topic to light, I asked anxiety expert — and just all around beautiful human — Sheryl Paul to joins me on The Final Swipe to share her wisdom on this topic. My friend, we are so lucky to have her. She hasn't done press in a really long time. And I did I mention she's been on the Oprah show? Yeah. This is a must-listen to episode. And beyond this show, I hope you continue to follow her work as she'll be an amazing resource for you on this journey to love. We talk about: Anxiety! How to catch and work through it when dating How to know if the person you're dating has relationship anxiety How dating someone with relationship anxiety can really mess with your intuition and self-esteem Resources: https://conscious-transitions.com/ (Sheryl's website) Sheryl's new book on anxiety coming out in March 2019

Sheryl Paul, a psychotherapist based in Boulder, Colorado, has helped thousands of people around the world through her coaching practice, her blog, and her online courses. In this episode, she and I talk about insights from her forthcoming book, The Wisdom of Anxiety, due out in May 2019 through Sounds True. Sheryl explains how anxiety contains hidden gems, gems of self-knowledge that can point us toward what needs attention in our lives. As someone who has struggled with anxiety and panic attacks for years, I know firsthand that anxiety can be a great teacher. Sheryl has helped me to sit with the pain and discomfort of anxiety long enough to hear the message it's trying to deliver; I hope the wisdom she shares in this episode can help you to see anxiety in a new light. You can find links to topics and references covered in this episode on the Shownotes page.

Gain insight into navigating the transitions we face throughout the journey of motherhood, from becoming a mother, to being one and everything in between.

Gain insight into navigating the transitions we face throughout the journey of motherhood, from becoming a mother, to being one and everything in between.