Leah Sherry
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Salad is not self love. At best - I'll give it a nod for 'self-care' - but self love? This pop-phrase is all over the feel-better memes. Coating conventional wisdom with yet more shit we have to do to fix ourselves. "If you really loved yourself, you'd eat salad so - therefor - eating salad must be love. I mean, I love a good wedge - and yeah - eating some fibrous greens can feel pretty good. Not just for the moral high-ground - but also in the bod. But self-love? If... I could have strong-armed it with smoothies and push ups - I'd have fallen hard and married my self long ago. Yet no. Love came when I cried. Hard and ugly. With another human being. Someone safe. Who wouldn't judge me or cringe. A human who saw my human. And in that - wow. The simplest hardest thing. Love of the self - is loving ALL the self. Not just the part that eats salad. But the part that hates salad too. The part that disgusts us - the parts that we shove into exile and banish in shame. To love the unlovable. To open the door, invite it to the table, make it a plate, and listen - to what those ugly parts have to say. We dare not do it alone - that I know. (photo - "Women Laughing Alone with Salad" a play by Sheila Callaghan") #therapy #scrollingmemes #selflove #leahsherrytherapy #loveyourself #uglyparts #salad #fitspo #welcomehome #surrender See more

Icebergs. An obvious metaphor. Nature giving us a pristine and quiet little nod - showing our complexity in the simplest forms. A chunk of floating ice. In a giant body of water. What lies below the surface. But I am thinking about her Bergy Bits today. You know them? They are sometimes called Growlers. The parts of the iceberg that melt and soften and break off. In a giant yawn - waking up - under the sun - the iceberg will growl and stretch and creak like a floor board. Hardened bits will break. And catch a small wave. Kind of free - but still made of ice. It sounds like it hurts her - to split and crack and let chunks go. Growling. But its just nature. Its just sun warming cold. #iceberg #leahsherrytherapy #naturemetaphor #change #growthhurts #letitmelt

R E L A T I O N S https://www.elephantjournal.com//the-therapist-i-will-nev/ 'Heart of Gold' by Jaclyn Dina #leahsherrytherapy #howtobeinrelationships #relationships #relationalpsychotherapy #therapy #whatistherapy #heartofgold

In the words of Don Draper, "I hate to break it to you...but the universe is indifferent." The space between our birth and our death - its a shaky fucker. Full of gorgeous surprise, bone smashing loss, heart coursing love and the mediocrity of a bus stop. So we need our fantasies, our ideas of the greater force at work, our religions our gods our books and poems. But what happens when that all falls away - when it fails us - when it shows itself to be false or untrue. What if there is no universe out there - no guardian angel at the helm? What if its all you? What if no one is out to get you or guide you or help you or take it all away from you. What would it feel like - if you had your back? #trustnouniverse #getyourownback #hardtruth #madmen #televisiongospel #therapy #leahsherrytherapy