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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
I want you to know that this system is destructible, and the fastest way to obliterate its control over us is to do the scary work of tearing down those pillars of hierarchy inside ourselves. At the same time, we must trust that what will be left standing is our own divine enoughness, absent of any need for comparison.
from The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Tara McMullin added 25d ago
The act of giving yourself some grace is the practice of loving the you that does not like your body.
from The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Tara McMullin added 25d ago
- Make peace with not understanding. 2. Make peace with difference. 3. Make peace with your body.
from The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Tara McMullin added 25d ago
The work is to crumble the barriers of injustice and shame leveled against us so that we might access what we have always been, because we will, if unobstructed, inevitably grow into the purpose for which we were created: our own unique version of that oak tree.
from The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Tara McMullin added 25d ago
People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution.… Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously
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Tara McMullin added 25d ago
Without compassion for ourselves we will never stay on the road of radical self-love. Without compassion for others we can only replicate the world we have always known. Radical self-love is not about “getting it right.” “Getting it right” is a body-shame paradigm. Radical self-love is honoring how we are all products of a rigged system designed to
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Tara McMullin added 25d ago
Yes, we have been less vibrant employees, less compassionate neighbors, less tolerant of the bodies of others, not because we are bad people but because we are guilty of each of those counts against ourselves.
from The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Tara McMullin added 25d ago
Our thoughts are a hybrid of information forged from our own experiences, traumas, successes, failures, etc., and massive input from our external world. All those media messages about “good” bodies and “normal” bodies: they’re in your thoughts. All the government-endorsed ideas of safe bodies and dangerous bodies: they’re in your thoughts. You have
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Tara McMullin added 25d ago
Many of us have oriented our entire lives around an effort to be “normal,” never realizing that “normal” is not a stationary goal. It keeps moving while we dance a perpetual foxtrot, jitterbug, and paso doble around it, trying to catch up and confused when we finish each day exhausted and uninspired by this party called life.
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Tara McMullin added 25d ago