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

by Sonya Renee Taylor

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.

When we liberate ourselves from the expectation that we must have all things figured out, we enter a sanctuary of empathy.

“Abused children have been taught that love can coexist with abuse. This shapes our adult perceptions of love. As we would cling to the notion that those who hurt us as children loved us, we rationalize being hurt by other adults by insisting that they love us.”