The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

by Sonya Renee Taylor

concern came from love, and that love felt like a knife to the heart.

I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life fighting myself.

radical self-love builds a foundation strong enough to carry the enormous power of our highest calling while also connecting us to the potential power of all bodies.

we must build in us what we want to see built in the world.

freeing ourselves from the need to understand everything can bring about a tremendous amount of peace.

“I touch my own skin, and it tells me that before there was any harm, there was miracle.”

“How can I help you heal?”

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 adopted different values.

Until all of us are free, none of us is free.

“Liberation is the opportunity for every human, no matter their body, to have unobstructed access to their highest self, for every human to live in radical self-love.”