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radical self-love should have resided. My fear was not about what I didn’t
know. Example after example has apprised me of the same truth: the only
thing that kills the slow, poisonous choke of body shame and body terrorism
that dwells in each of us is radical self-love. That truth is not of me but
through me, just like the first time I uttered the words “The body is not an
apology.” My work is simply to be a willing vessel for its message.
If I could go back to that night on a rooftop in Brazil and answer Kai’s
question, I would say, loudly and unapologetically, “Liberation is the
opportunity for every human, no matter their body, to have unobstructed
access to their highest self; for every human to live in radical self-love.” I
did not say it that night, but I am saying it now, to you, and I am not the
least bit sorry.