p.s. My T gave me this poem several months into our work. This helped me to not beat myself up over the cognitive distortion idea.

Relearning Loveliness

The bud
Stands for all things,
Even for those things that don’t flower,
For everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
Though sometimes it is necessary
To reteach a thing its loveliness,
To put a hand on the brow
Of the flower,
And retell it in words and in touch
It is lovely
Until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

-Galway Kinnell