What Is the Language That Allows Me to Express Myself?

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When you're a child, the behaviour that you model is what sends the most powerful message. And in different was i kids, you use to love yourself and then go do all sorts of self destructive things to yourself as a parent. You'll have a leg to stand on when you move out into the world and you start to be able to actually say yes to your own community,. sayYes to your own sense of identity, sayyes to your own language. There's been this really powerful evolution of language. Being non binary taught me that the relationship between use of appropriate nouns and respect.

You may know my guest today, Jeffrey Marsh, from their spiritual and inclusive messages that have received over 1 billion views on social media. Jeffrey is a viral TikTok and Instagram sensation, the first openly nonbinary public figure to be interviewed on national television, and the first nonbinary author to be offered a book deal with any "Big 5" publisher, at Penguin Random House.

Jeffrey’s bestselling Buddhist self-esteem guide How To Be You, is an innovative, category-non-conforming work that combines memoir, workbook, and spiritual advice, inviting anyone and everyone into the conversation through a lens of kindness and inclusivity. How To Be You topped Oprah's Gratitude Meter and was named Excellent Book of the Year by TED-Ed. Jeffrey has also been a student and teacher of Zen for over twenty years, and this practice has been central to both their lens on life, and capacity to do the work they do in a grounded, deeply-present, open-heart and joyful way.

You can find Jeffrey at: Website | Instagram

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