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Sonya Renee Taylor
Sonya Renee Taylor

Aug 31, 2020

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The New Self-Help

Making Peace With Your Body Is a Mighty Act of Revolution

The three tenets of radical self-love

Book jacket cover for The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor.

This story is part of The New Self-Help: 21 Books for a Better You in the 21st Century.

Radical self-love — a deliberate unlearning of the internalized shame and discomfort we accumulate with respect to our physical bodies —…

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