Sonya Renee Taylor, author and founder of The Body is Not An Apology, discusses the transformative power of radical self-love. She challenges societal norms and explores how embracing self-acceptance can combat self-loathing. The conversation delves into the innate joy of childhood, overcoming body shame, and the role of community in fostering self-compassion. Taylor envisions a world rooted in love, where compassion replaces aggression, encouraging listeners to cultivate a nurturing relationship with themselves.
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Radical Self-Love Definition
Radical self-love is our inherent worthiness and divinity, not something we achieve.
We are born with it, like toddlers who love themselves unconditionally.
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Divinity and Source
Sonya Renee Taylor connects divinity with the source of creation, regardless of religious beliefs.
She emphasizes the shared divine origin between humans and nature.
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Peeling the Onion
Identify the thoughts and stories that block your inherent self-love.
Challenge those negative thoughts and choose new, positive actions.
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This book provides everything girls need to know about puberty, including explanations of physical changes, emotional shifts, and social interactions. It covers topics such as breasts and bras, periods, hair growth, feelings, and friendships. The book is designed to be positive, judgment-free, and medically accurate, helping girls feel informed, empowered, and ready for the changes ahead.
The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies
Sonya Renee Taylor
Cat Pausé
This handbook brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of Fat Studies topics and perspectives. It explores the epistemology, ontology, and methodology of fatness, with attention to issues such as gender and sexuality, disability and embodiment, health, race, media, discrimination, and pedagogy. Presenting work from both scholarly writers and activists, this volume reflects a range of critical perspectives vital to the expansion of Fat Studies and thus constitutes an essential resource for researchers in the field.
The body is not an apology
Sonya Renee Taylor
In this book, Sonya Renee Taylor invites readers to reconnect with the radical origins of their minds and bodies and celebrate their collective strength. Taylor argues that body shame and oppression are interconnected with various forms of marginalization such as racism, homophobia, and sexism, which she terms 'body terrorism.' The book emphasizes the need to acknowledge and challenge internalized body shame and societal norms, promoting radical self-love as a foundational tool for social justice and global transformation. It includes personal anecdotes, discussion questions, and reflective prompts to help readers embark on a journey of self-love and social change[1][4][5].
It is incredibly common for many of us humans, whatever our gender, to be at war with our bodies -- trying to live up to the people we see in the movies, on social media, or even the versions of ourselves in old pictures. This never-enough-ness can lead to an ambient level of self-loathing that can be incredibly destructive. That's where "radical self-love" comes in. Our guest today is Sonya Renee Taylor. She is the author of three books, including The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. She is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology. She has come to this work as a result of her own personal pain, as a Black woman inhabiting a body that she says does not conform to societal norms. In this conversation, we talk about defining radical self-love (and why she believes it's our natural state), tools for cultivating radical self-love, and the connection between being OK with yourself and the larger society. (Also, just a heads up: There is one brief reference to sex.) If you don't already have the Ten Percent Happier app, you can download it for free wherever you get your apps: https://10percenthappier.app.link/download-app. Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/sonya-renee-taylor-369
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