168. Sonya Renee Taylor: What If You Loved Your Body?

Following Glennon’s diagnosis, she, Abby, and Amanda go deep with Sonya Renee Taylor - author of The Body is Not an Apology – exploring the personal and global promise of Radical Self Love: 1. Examining the way we talk to our bodies – and how to change negative self-dialogue. 2. How to shift from a relationship with our body based on dominance and control to a relationship based on trust. 3. The pitfalls of “body positivity.” 4. Recognizing this global moment we are in as a gift inviting us to collective Self Love. 5. The full life that is possible only if we stop believing our body is our enemy, and start seeing our body as a teammate. About Sonya: Sonya Renee Taylor is a world-renowned activist, award-winning artist, transformational thought leader, author of six books including The New York Times best selling The Body is Not an Apology, and founder of the international movement and digital media and education company of the same name whose work has reached millions of people by exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice using a radical self-love framework. She continues to speak, teach,write, create, and transform lives globally. IG: sonyareneetaylor

Life altering

Much needed information, as it should be an ethos that everyone lives by everyday! Society as a whole would function so much better if we all lived Sonya’s words!

Thank you

Love this message Ty. I just ordered Sonya’s book on audible and ordered a paper copy for my daughter.

In a podcast I rely on, this episode in particular sticks with me

I bought the book. I’m working through it. I’ve started to repeat “the body is not an apology” and I feel it changing my posture when I say it to myself: not another “should,” but an acorn shoot, reaching for the sun. Or something.

(Also: that complying with patriarchal norms kept white women safe-ish but never truly safe, and never ever free, and at *huge* ongoing costs to other women and people of all types? Oh, yes.)