Sherry A. Ross - She-ology, the She-quel: Lets Continue the Conversation

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Dr. Sherry breaks down all taboos about female anatomy in a way that makes you feel like you are talking to a trusted friend or a big sister. She gives you real, no nonsense answers to questions you might never have thought to ask. Even the embarrassing ones!

Reese Witherspoon, Academy Award-Winning Actress and Founder of the media production company, Hello Sunshine

Dr. Sherry is my own personal advocate for holistic wellness and I love her. I am proud to have Dr. Sherry in my cornernot only as an expert and doctor but as a kind and compassionate champion for all women and children. I love knowing thateven if they are embarrassed to talk so openly with their own doctorsmy sisters and friends can have access to the same life-changing information about their bodies, their female health, and their vaginas that I have hadand have a good laugh along the way. I wholeheartedly recommend Dr. Sherrys second book she-ology, the she-quel .

Jennifer Garner, Actress and Co-Founder of Once Upon a Farm, a company dedicated to providing high-quality nutrition
for children everywhere

Dr. Sherry Ross is one of the brightest and smartest doctors we know. She has mastered her particular expertise, and women (and men) have benefited enormously from her knowledge. She has de-mystified so many taboo subjectsbringing them into the forefront of her conversations with patients rather than having unanswered questions lurking in the darkness.

As a couple, we feel that she is there for us at all the right times with just the right answerseven if its not what we want to hear. A calm and truthful voice who is always trying to get to the root of the problem.

Katharine McPhee, Actress, Singer, Songwriter and David Foster, Grammy Award-Winning Record Producer, Songwriter, and Composer

I'll be the first to admit, Im biased, but Dr. Sherry is my favorite gynecologist on the planet. She has been an amazing asset over the years, by helping me ease my hormonal self and keep it all together, as a career woman, mother, and wife. Dr. Sherry is truly one of the smartest and most amazing people I have ever met. I completely trust her with my life as well as that of my child, which she delivered. She is the wizard of gynecology and I want to share her with everyone I can! Do yourself a favor and read her book. You will be glad you did!

Debbie Metenopoulos, Host and Lifestyle Expert of Hallmark Channels Home & Family show

Dr. Sherry is a front-line warrior in the education of women of all types and ages. And I say that from personal experience as she has not only been my doctor, she has been my friend for nearly twenty-five years. She has walked the walk, accompanying me along my journey from pregnancy, dealing with my BRCA positive diagnosis, and the care and education of my teenage daughters and mother. She has championed and informed women in all aspects of health and wellness and continues to do so with this book. She-quel continues a life-changing conversation. Read this book and learn from the best!

Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios and Former President of
NBC Entertainment

Dr. Sherry is a marvel. Shes brilliant and compassionate and no-nonsense. But mostly she believes passionately and unequivocally that women have a right and responsibility to understand their own bodies. So much of our own physiology is still shrouded in mystery, and Dr. Sherry will not accept that. With her first book, and now the sequel, she gives us explanations to experiences weve been conditioned not to ask about along with the tools to make our own physical (and emotional) lives easier. As a writer, a woman and mother of two, Im so grateful her books exist.

Sarah Treem, Writer, Producer, Playwright and co-creator and showrunner for the Golden Globe winning show The Affair

A SAVIO REPUBLIC BOOK

An Imprint of Post Hill Press

She-ology, The She-quel:

Lets Continue the Conversation

2020 by Sherry A. Ross, MD

All Rights Reserved

ISBN: 978-1-64293-180-8

ISBN (eBook): 978-1-64293-181-5

Illustrations by Ann-Marisa Wada

Interior design and composition, Greg Johnson, Textbook Perfect

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To my father,
who gave me strength, wisdom, and a sense of humor,
and who taught me to persevere.

To my mother,
who remains for me a beacon of hope,
and a constant source of love and inspiration.

To my wife and sons,
who keep my heart full of endless love, laughter,
and possibilities each and every day.

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Julia Ormond

I n my twenties, my boyfriend was a gynecologist. For fun, I would call him at work and ask if he could chat, or if he had his hands full. Hed wait patiently on the phone for me to stop laughing at my own joke. Friends couldnt fathom how I could trust a sexual relationship with him. They wondered: Wasnt he screwed up from looking at womens bits all day? Was he screwed up to begin with? Was he perversely obsessed with vaginas? And why on earth would someone frigging decide on gynecology as their chosen path? It seemed such a narrow, rather dubious choice of career. In fact, he was one of the kindest souls Id ever met. Not only was he a loving boyfriend, he set the bar high for whoever would become my gynecologist.

Fortunately, I found that bar met by Sheryl Ross, my gynecologist now for over a decade. By sharing her wisdom and compassion, Dr. Sherry has helped empower me to take care of my sexual health and myself as a woman. In doing so, I have found a greater sense of wholeness, and I am thrilled that she is putting pen to paper and sharing that wisdom more widely.

Its hard not to have deep respect for someone who brings new human beings into the world for a living, who habitually puts parent and, Im sure, child instantly at ease. Los Angeles is a diverse city, so as a local one has access to phenomenal people of every expertiseone of those people being Dr. Sherry, whom Im both lucky and privileged to have found. Not only has she the smarts, experience, and empathy I believe necessary for someone in her profession, she can distill the most complicated and overwhelming information in a way that always makes me feel supported and at ease. I would encourage any and everyone to be guided by her.

In particular, Dr. Sherry has informed me by debunking the taboos around female sexuality that I had unconsciously pandered to. She eschewed nicknames for those private bits, while gently, matter-of-factly providing answers and explanations to my concerns. Without ever lecturing or preaching, she erased my awkwardness and sloughed away the mystery Id unknowingly cloaked around female sexual health.

Until meeting Dr. Sherry Id always had a lingering anxiety about my sexual health, which led to an unconscious disconnect with my bodymanifesting in my crass jokes and obligatory exclamations of Ew! in my first visits. Dr. Sherry countered by helping me to understand that my disconnect was antithetical to my sexual health, and, therefore, my whole health . It not only complicated healing; it created denial around preventative health.