E243 - TIMELESS // ‘How to Stop Measuring Your Worth’ with Sonya Renee Taylor

“There’s an opportunity to unplug or to lower the volume so that we can better hear our own radical self love self. Oftentimes we just can’t hear it over this external voice, the outside voice inside of us that is so loud.” Sonya Renee Taylor

E243 – TIMELESS // ‘How to Stop Measuring Your Worth’ with Sonya Renee Taylor

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About this episode:

In this timeless, we explore the “ladder” – the system of hierarchies that tells us which bodies are worthy and which are not. From racism, ableism and capitalism to beauty standards and perfectionism, the ladder keeps us climbing for external validation and always leaves us feeling not enough.

Radical self-love offers another way. It asks us to step off the ladder, to revisit the stories that placed us on it and to begin divesting from the messages that keep us trapped. It calls us back to our inherent worth, our divinity and our wholeness.

Sonya Renee Taylor Sonya lays out her radical self-love vision. She is a New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation and transformational change, international award winning artist, and founder of The Body Is Not an Apology (TBINAA), a global digital media and education company exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice through the framework of radical self-love.

This is not easy work, but it is possible through honesty, community, grace and a willingness to embrace our own complexity. And as we do it, we create the conditions not only to free ourselves, but to dismantle the ladder for everyone.

We hope this short piece roots softly in your body.

“The message of whether or not our bodies are okay keeps us trying to figure out how to attain our worthiness, how to attain what makes us valuable in the world. And that is the ladder, all the systems and structures that exist to help us externally define whether or not we’re good enough.” Sonya Renee Taylor

Sonya Renee Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation and transformational change, international award winning artist, and founder of The Body Is Not an Apology (TBINAA), a global digital media and education company exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice through the framework of radical self-love. In her book of the same name, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya lays out her radical self-love vision, arguing that all people arrive on this planet in a state of self-love before internalizing messages of shame and injustice from systems of oppression. Healing, Sonya suggests, takes place through reconnecting with our inherent divine enoughness, transforming how we live in and relate to both our bodies and the bodies of others. Sonya writes, “Using the term ‘radical’ elevates the reality that our society requires a drastic political, economic, and social reformation in the ways in which we deal with bodies and body difference.”

To connect or work with Sonya, visit sonyareneetaylor.com/

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