Episode 117: "The Body is Not an Apology" with Sonya Renee Taylor
In this episode, Alisha is sharing her conversation with Sonya Renee Taylor about her book “The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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Show Notes:
Sonya Renee Taylor: The Body is not an apology
Think in Metaphor
Radical honesty, radical empathy, and radical vulnerability
Words are spells, we are casting reality when we talk
Energy is contagious, we are constantly transferring energy all the time
When we are inside of our own self-loathing it re-affirms that self-loathing is a way to move through the world.
Everything is giving permission or taking permission away.
We cannot build externally that which has not been built internally
The work of radical self-love is the work of recognizing where the system is moving inside of the relationship with myself and where the system is moving inside of everyone else.
The way to undo the system is to stop participating in it.
What are my thoughts? What are the things that I don’t let myself consciously think about?
There is a message in absence
Am I willing to learn a new language?
Am I willing to learn a new language when I know that language is hurting someone?
Recognize in your anger that we are both individuals and products of a system. We are both and.
Hold Humans inside of compassion, curiosity and accountability.
Hold systems to task
Hate requires too much of my own personal energy. I reserve my hate for systems
I’m not interested in tearing down humans. I’m interested in tearing down systems that those humans are in.
Love and care require intimacy
Inside of our own relationships with our own bodies we must get deeply intimate.
There is no way to love and care for things unless you are willing to get intimate with
Animals are never self-loathing
Transition from this form, you can’t loss someone because energy is neither created nor destroyed
Mother is greatest love and greatest heartbreak
Death is birth in reverse
Grief never leaves
How beautiful the transitioned relationship can be.
Our ancestors are key to how we move through these systems of oppression: Epigenetics.
If we pass on trauma we pass on resilience
Our relationship with our ancestors is essential for our healing
We must look behind to go forward.
Abundance is my birthright, scarcity is imaginary and made up.