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As author Sonya Renee Taylor writes in The Body Is Not an Apology , “Radical self-love is the tool we have to disrupt systems of oppression.” When you stop apologizing for your body, you reclaim your energy for what truly matters: living.

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Using meditation or journaling to stay grounded in the present moment. Breaking the "All-or-Nothing" Cycle As author Sonya Renee Taylor writes in The

Darlene sniffed. “I’ve been on a diet since I was eleven. Three heart attacks by fifty. Last year, my cardiologist told me that if I don’t find a way to move my body without punishing it, I won’t make it to sixty. I lost forty pounds—gained back sixty. Then my daughter finds this place online. ‘Mom,’ she says, ‘they love every body.’” Darlene gestured toward the studio. “But that woman—Evelyn—she looked at me like I was a charity case. Like my body was a science experiment.” “I’ve been on a diet since I was eleven

That morning, a new student shuffled in. Her name was Mira Patel, a twenty-nine-year-old Ph.D. candidate in public health, whose body was, by conventional wellness standards, a problem. She was soft in the middle, wide in the hips, and had a double chin that appeared even when she smiled. For three years, she had been studying the very industry Evelyn represented: the paradox of “inclusive wellness.” She knew that for every brand that posted a mid-size model on Instagram, there were ten thousand diet plans disguised as detoxes. She had not come to the studio for enlightenment. She had come because her advisor had told her to “get primary source material” for her dissertation: The Commodification of Compassion: How Body Positivity Became a Luxury Good.

Shifting focus from appearance to capability reduces anxiety and depression.

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