Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

2 reviews

brookey8888's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

This was actually what I needed. I’ve been struggling lately and I think reading this and hopefully practicing what was in this will be very helpful. I really enjoyed this because it talked about body shaming but in all manors of body, which I think is really important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Grief, Racism, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Sexism

isabelmabel49's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

Sonya Renee Taylor writes in a way that feels like she's chatting with you over coffee, like she's that friend that cares about you deeply and "that's why you gotta change something, pal". She takes the notions of 'self-love' and 'self-confidence' that we're all familiar with and uses them as gateway terms for a belief/thought system that is so much more powerful and fertile for growth. Emphasizing the necessity for both strong, healthy, and considerate intrapersonal AND interpersonal relationships, Taylor genuinely gives you hope for a future that is better in all manner of ways.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Colonisation, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

All content warnings are mentioned as educative, informative, and/or personal experiences. Explicit detail is rarely used, and much of it is in statistics to underline a point.