Anxiety seems to be the dis-ease of our times. More people than ever are taking medications to help them cope with stress. Nearly everyone I talk to is consumed with anxious feelings that hijack any pleasure they could be getting from their lives. The pressure to “produce” combined with a perception of “not enough time,” combines to create anxiety, self-doubt, frustration and resentment. Resentment, then, is often taken out on your closest, most important relationships. As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sheryl Green.
Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Before we dive in, our readers would love to “get to know you” better. Can you tell us a bit about you and your backstory?
Sure! I’m a mental health speaker, author, and a Boundary Expert. The reason I do this, is because I burned out… hard. But let’s back up a bit.
When I was in college, I was obsessed with serial killers. So much so, that I went to graduate school for Forensic Psychology. I wanted to be an FBI profiler. I earned my Master’s Degree but didn’t get into the FBI. In retrospect, that’s a really good thing. I would’ve been miserable spending my days in the minds of criminals.
I bounced around from job to job (education, mental health, communications) for years before finding my writing talent and my love of speaking. I started my own content writing business while building my speaking career. But when COVID hit, they both disappeared overnight. I’d been volunteering, serving on the board, and working part-time for an animal rescue for years, so when my business evaporated, I went full-time at the animal rescue.
Passionate and dedicated as I was, I realized the nonprofit world was no place for someone without healthy boundaries. After a near mental breakdown, I ended up leaving the rescue and shifting my research, writing, and speaking, to healthy boundary work.
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