researcher and expert on vulnerability and shame Brené Brown says, “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.”

radical self-love is a pathway toward personal and collective transformation. It is time we use it to change the world.

Humans unfortunately make being human exceptionally hard for each other,

The theory proposes that we should think of each element or trait of a person as inextricably linked with all of the other elements in order to fully understand one’s identity.

Natural intelligence intends that every living thing become the highest form of itself and designs us accordingly.”

a capitalist system, disabled bodies and differently working brains are difficult to exploit for profit and thus have been framed as bad bodies that should be hidden, pitied, or, as with the eugenics movement, murdered.

It is an act of radical love.

her indoctrinated ideas about weight and size have demanded fat bodies apologize by pathologizing them and demanding they shrink.

When we hear someone’s truth and it strikes some deep part of our humanity, our own hidden shames, it can be easy to recoil into silence. We struggle to hold the truths of others because we have so rarely had the experience of having our own truths held. Social