Sheryl Paul

Sheryl Paul teaches and writes about anxiety, intrusive thoughts, relationship anxiety, self-trust and life transitions. Her central view is that anxiety is not the enemy. She sees it as a messenger from the unconscious, "a friend in disguise" that signals something in the interior life needs attention.

Her approach is informed by the Jungian depth psychological tradition. She trained at Pacifica Graduate Institute (1997) and names the work of Marion Woodman and Robert Johnson as particular influences. She graduated from Pitzer College in 1993. She describes her own first panic attack, at twenty-one, as the start of a long journey toward her true self, and says that anxiety has been one of her greatest teachers.

She works with clients and course members around the world, helping them follow anxiety and its symptoms, including worry, obsessions, intrusive thoughts, insomnia and somatic illness, back to their roots. Her offerings include private sessions, a blog, and self-paced and live courses. The courses cover relationship anxiety, self-trust, love and attraction, sexuality and body shame, and uncertainty. She is the author of The Wisdom of Anxiety and The Healing Anxiety Workbook. She has appeared several times on The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as on Good Morning America.

Sheryl lives with her husband and sons on a creek outside Boulder, Colorado. She sees clients and writes her books, articles and courses in a studio her husband designed, a short walk from the house.