Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook by Sonya Renee Taylor

Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook by Sonya Renee Taylor

Based on the New York Times bestseller The Body Is Not an Apology, this is an action guide to help readers practice the art of radical self-love both for themselves and to transform our society.

Readers of The Body Is Not an Apology have been clamoring for guidance on how to do the work of radical self-love. After crowdsourcing her community, Sonya Renee Taylor found her readers wanted more concrete ideas on how to apply this work in their everyday lives. Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook is the action guide that gives them tools and structured frameworks they can begin using immediately to deepen their radical self-love journey--such as Taylor's four pillars of practice, which help readers dismantle body shame and give them access to a lifestyle rooted in love. Taylor guides readers to move beyond theory and into doing and being radical self-love change agents in the world.

"In this book, you will be asked to draw, color, doodle, talk to friends, take risks, and perhaps step outside of what feels like your natural gifts and talents," Taylor writes. "I encourage you to release the need to be 'good' at what you are doing and instead strive to be authentic. Perfection is the enemy of radical self-love because it is an impossible illusion. When the voice of perfectionism chimes in, take a deep breath, remember that the work is about the process, not about the product, and give yourself permission to be fabulously unapologetically imperfect.

The Body is Not An Excuse, founded by Sonya Renee Taylor, is an international movement and organization dedicated to radical self-love and bodily empowerment as a basic instrument for social justice and global transformation. Sonya's work as a multi-award winning Performance Poet, Activist, and Transformational Leader has a global impact. Sonya is a former National and International poetry slam champion, author, educator, and activist who has wowed audiences in prisons, mental health treatment facilities, homeless shelters, universities, festivals, and public schools around the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, England, Scotland, Canada, and the Netherlands, as well as in prisons, mental health treatment facilities, homeless shelters, universities, festivals, and public schools. Sonya has been well known for her work as a change agent, believing in the potential of art as a vehicle for social change. In 2015, she was recognized one of Planned Parenthood's 99 Dream Keepers, as well as a 2015 Distinguished Partner awardee by Planned Parenthood Generation Action.

In September 2015, she was acknowledged as a YBCA 100, an annual compilation of creative minds, makers, and pioneers who are asking the questions and generating the provocations that will influence the future of American culture; an honor she shared with novelist Ta'Nahesi Coates, artist Kara Walker, and filmmaker Ava DuVernay. Sonya has appeared on HBO, BET, MTV, TV One, NPR, PBS, CNN, Oxygen Network, The New York Times, New York Magazine, MSNBC.com, Today.com, Huffington Post, Vogue Australia, Shape.com, Magazine, and many more outlets. Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth 1in3 Campaign, Association for Size Diversity and Health, Binge Eating Disorders Association (BEDA), Yerba Buena Cultural Art Center, and others are among her many collaborators and artists. With a B.A. in hand, you're ready to take on the world.

with a B.A. in Sociology and an M.S.A. Sonya continues to be a powerful supporter and activist for intersectional, global justice in Organizational Management. She is currently a member of the Split This Rock Board of Directors, an organization that encourages poets to take more active roles in public life and fosters a nationwide network of socially engaged poets. She also serves on the SisterSong Board of Directors, a groundbreaking Women of Color reproductive justice organization.

She is also involved in the Black Lives Matter movement and the Anti-Police Terror Project in Oakland, California. Sonya established The Body is Not An Excuse, an international movement and organization dedicated to radical self-love and body empowerment, in 2011. The Body is Not An Apology entered the digital technology realm in 2015, establishing a comprehensive tech platform to connect people all over the world around topics of radical self-love and intersectional social justice. The online platform of The Body is Not An Apologies, www.thebodyisnotanapology.com, includes a digital magazine, radical education web-based courses, a social networking site, and online forums.

With visitors from over 140 countries, TBINAA's content reaches over 250,000 thousand people per week. Sonya currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her Yorkie, Anastasia Duchess, but she continues to travel the world doing talks, workshops, and performances about radical unapologetic healing and personal transformation.

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ISBN 13	9781523091164
ISBN 10	1523091169
Title	Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook
Author	Sonya Renee Taylor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Year published	2021-03-16
Number of pages	112
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.