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Such gorgeous books and goodies from my match, Andrew!
I am so thankful for this, and I'm really excited to start reading.
I reserved it for March, so I'm counting down mood! And maybe the pages will be in the candlelight!🕯📚

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I can't remember whose post I “stacked this” from but... I want to say think you. I truly enjoyed this one. Radical Self Acceptance is something I strive for. I have been actively recognizing when my thoughts get negative or mean to myself (especially my body) and this book helped to reinforce thks practice. #BlameItOnLitsy #BlameItOnLitsy

https://youtu.be/gk1maXwYYt4?feature=shared

^ me talking about body positivity and reviewing this excellent book 💕

Hopefully Winter won't last much longer now 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Transcendent, radical, and kind, The Body is Not an Apology deconstructs the damage that our shared delusion of body hierarchies does to our communities.

Taylor gives us a chance of a different way of being, with a hope that it will spread to create a more loving and equitable future.

If I could persuade just a few of you to buy this book, read it and pass it on, I'd be chuffed to bits.

CATS AGAINST BODY SHAME! 💕💕💕

#catsoflitsy #picklescat

Please take a moment to read this page about our learned responses of body shame.

"It may not be a memory you can access at all, but just knowing that there was a point in your history when you once loved your body can be a reminder that body shame is a fantastically crappy inheritance.

We didn't give it to ourselves, and we are not obligated to keep it."

“You were not born hating your body.“

Wow, this was just the book I needed. I'm still far away from Radical Self-Love, but I sure want to get there. Sonya Renee Taylor reads her own book in the audio version and listening to her voice is pure empowerment. I might keep this book in my library to listen to it whenever I need it.

Thanks to @Darklunarose who put this book on my radar.

Finally finished listening to this wonderful work. For a 5 hour audio book that took forever as life has been dictating exactly where I have been needed recently and relaxing with a nook or craft hasn‘t been on the agenda! This one is really worth a read.

Starting to listen to this tonight

Great message! I didn‘t always love the delivery, but I got some key points to take away with me.

Although a bit self-helpy for me at times in the delivery, the underlying premise is spot on. The Body is Not an Apology and if we could get past the body terrorism (I love that phrasing and will fully adopt that one) we practice on ourselves and others for not fitting some ideal that doesn‘t even exist and is completely subjective anyway…we would come a long way as a species. I particularly appreciated that she took this concept of body ⤵️

This book is a great introduction to beauty at every size, BIPOC oppression, transgender and LGBTQIA+ issues.

I thought the themes of this book would focus on body positivity as it related to body size, but was pleasantly surprised that it related to all ways one should love their body. Radical self love in all forms, from size, color, ability, age, and body parts.

Absolutely essential reading.

I didn‘t really expect to like this book; it seemed a little woo-woo for me. But I found that many parts of it resonated with me, and I recognized my behaviors and feelings, and I learned some things about where they may have originated.

One of my biggest pet peeves around racial issues is people saying, “I don‘t see color.” Unless you are literally blind, you do see color. Here, Taylor better articulates why this idea of “color blindness” bothers me so much. “We may be trying to convey how we don‘t judge people based on racial identity, but “color blindness” is an act of erasure.” Saying you don‘t see color may be well-intentioned, but it‘s actually harmful.

This resonated with me: “I‘m not simply proposing that you make peace with your body because your body shame is making you miserable. I am proposing you do it because it‘s making us miserable too.” It took me far too long to realize the impact my hatred of my body was having on my daughter. And maybe others. Did they think I was judging them as viciously as they saw me judge myself? I sure hope not!

I enjoyed this. It equips you with tools to do battle against the constant messages society gives you about the right way to have a body, change your inner monologue and challenge the biases you may hold against others.

It‘s a fairly quick read / listen. More of a high level over view.
I am curious about the companion workbook.

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Listening to this today, before the diet culture inundation that January brings.

I was trying decide if I was internalizing things or if this book was just not for me. The start was more showmanship than substance.

2 hours in, we are on the same page as she explains that it is ok to want to change and express yourself a certain way. The key is examining if these changes enrich your life or if it‘s an external message and who stands to benefit.

5/5 ⭐️ Everyone needs to read this book! I felt so seen and learned so much! I will be incorporating radical self-love in my life. 💖

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I had started this audiobook over my weekend per the recommendation of a friend. But I started spacing off and focusing more on the activity I was doing so I‘m going to restart this today with more intention. Neither my friend or I are big on self help books, so since she really liked it I have some good expectations!

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What a transformative book! Full of knowledge, honesty and vulnerability, Sonya Renee Taylor makes her case for radical self love in a powerful and convincing way. Highly recommend this book for those on the path of self acceptance and the non judgements acceptance of others. Read this book! #BookspinBingo #Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

Jumping on the #20in4 #readathon bandwagon! I finished President Obama‘s book on audio today (29 hours!) after listening off and on for 2 month so that is a great accomplishment and I hope to finish a couple more between projects this weekend. Currently reading the tagged book and 2 others. Happy Reading all! @Andrew65

I did a combo of audio and print on this one, because I wanted to journal on the questions/reflections (still working on those) and I can concentrate better on self-help books on audio for some reason.

There‘s a lot to think about in here. Mostly about how society conditions us all to see and judge physical bodies. Our own and others.

I read this for a bookclub. I think we‘ll have some good discussions based on it.

Going with a pick, but did not love it like so many others. #audio #bookspinbingo free space @TheAromaofBooks

This book was sort of mind blowing. It just made me think about my relationship with my body and attitudes towards bodies in general in a whole new way. I really admire how the author sees the idea of radical self love as a revolutionary movement with the power to make so many changes. I suspect I‘ll be thinking about this for a while, which is a good thing.

This was my last March read. I completed 15 books but this one gives me my sole bingo!

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I audio listened to this on the way to SD last weekend. I actually enjoyed her perspective on life and being happy with yourself and your body. I would recommend this for any one who struggles with this in their life.
I am however not a huge fan of the cover. I feel like it objectives a woman's body.

I really enjoyed this book and found myself wishing more people would read it too. A useful perspective in diversity and body acceptance that differs from other takes I‘s seen before.

Not every day a New York Times best-selling author messages you back! I shared with Sonya Renee Taylor that her book, The Body Is Not an Apology, was the first nonfiction (especially activism/self-help) book not exclusively about disability that made me feel genuinely included in the audience. I often feel like a niche, unrelatable, or unmentioned subject. She‘s a star.

The 2nd edition - expanded, revised, introduced by Ijeoma Oluo - is out now!

“Many of us have oriented our entire lives around an effort to be “normal,” never realizing that “normal” is not a stationary goal. “

Indeed.

#AnyWayYouReadathon

So I forgot to post the lineup for the #AnyWayYouReadathon . I am also listening to The Troop by Nick Cutter, but I needed a break. I did not enjoy the narrator for Take Me Apart but I was sucked right into the book itself so I am excited to jump back into that one!
If I get to him, Freddie is on deck as my mustache pick for #Booked2021
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An unpopular opinion but this book just didn't rock my world. I suppose since Radical Self-Love was only part of the secondary title and not the main title, I should've been prepared for more about our physical forms. I was most interested in the brief portion that talked about the legislation in countries that rule against bodies and then points such as that while, usually well-meaning, some comments can erase someone's identity & their own ⬇️

A manifesto encouraging self love over self confidence & self esteem, this could be a difficult book to read for some. (Me, I‘m some)

One of the things I appreciated the most was the intersectionality. Race, class, ability, weight were all considered in how they affect how we see ourselves. And the strategies towards the end that we can do were particularly uplifting.

Some odd formatting things going on, but overall a thoughtful read. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

#BingoBoard all set up for the shortest month of the year. So let‘s see how I do this time! 😂

#BookSpin 2 - The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

#DoubleSpin 5 - The Incredible Nellie Bly by Lucians Cimino

Thanks @TheAromaofBooks ! ❤️

This was really good - no surprise - but I think I need a paper copy to help me commit more of this to memory (or a reread some time soon...).

Sometimes we need to have our eyes opened by someone else to see the harm we‘ve been inflicting. Sonya Renee Taylor shows readers the myriad of ways we hurt ourselves (and others). She encourages us to practice radical self-love and radiate it outward so that we can create a more compassionate, understanding society. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Preach 🙌🏻I could listen to Sonya Renee Taylor all day!!! This audio was a mini revolution for my soul. Like Roxanne Gay, Sonya Taylor speaks to those who too often apologize for not recognizing their value and worth. This was a gift to listen too. #pop21 #BodyPositivity #NonfictionChallenge21 #AboutLove #RadicalSelfLove #SorryNotSorry #LiveAndLearn #CoverCrush

Whoa!!! Thank you Sonya Renee Taylor ♥️I‘m having that moment of embracing #RadicalSelfLove I‘ve been woke 💪🏽Why do I feel the NEED to apologize ALL THE TIME!!! WHY and WHAT am I sorry for?!!!?? THIS. AUDIO 🙌🏻Thanks for the recommendation @britt_brooke @Megabooks #Pop21 #BodyPositivity #NonFictionChallenge21 #AboutLove #CoverLove 💕💕💕

The argument that people chose” to be this way or the other is at its core an argument about difference and our inability to understand and make peace with difference. The notion of choice is a convenient scapegoat for our bias and bigotries. Logic says, “If people are choosing to be different, they can just as simply choose to be the way I believe they should be.” What we must ask ourselves instead is, ⬇️

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a book for every person, for all bodies. Funny, profound, and incredibly well-written. Taylor shouts the message of “radical self love” from the rooftop. I wish everyone could hear her. We are so hard on ourselves and each other. I needed this book so much, and appreciated the important reminder to consciously identify, and correct, my implicit biases.

#coverlove

I'm truly obsessed with this book. It moved me to my core and changed how I think and feel about my own body and the bodies around me (both in real life and the media). As a queer fat disabled woman, this book is probably the first time I've ever felt entirely seen in all my parts by a single source. It has me thinking a week after finishing it. I need to get my own copy. Highly recommend.

Listening to this really helped get me out of a mind-f*** about my weight.

Bodies are different in ability, race, gender, weight, etc. and of all these differences change how you experience the world and how the world reacts to you. Taylor goes through what the five pillars of radical self-love are and how to practice them. 4.5⭐️ #audiobook

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What if radical self-love could not only end the suffering that comes from our criticism of our bodies, but also break the stranglehold that systems of oppression have on Black and brown bodies, on gender nonconforming bodies, on disabled bodies? It‘s time to find out. And Sonya Renee Taylor is the guide you‘ve been waiting for—funny, loving, warm, and empowering. Save yourself, save the world, start right here, in your beautiful body.

Essential reading for everyone.

This book comes from Taylor‘s experience, so it has the limits that come with that but there is no denying this an ambitious work with a surprisingly simple and unifying premise. Very self-help-y but impressive with its intentent. I don‘t think I‘ve ever read a book so self-help-y with the tangible goal of empowering people to love themselves as well as others.
I have a great deal of respect for how this woman thinks and the future she imagines.

YES!!!!!!