
With the fuel provided by self-love, a direction inspired by self-respect, the last step concerns agency towards the future. This is the domain of self-responsibility, and it entails accepting the burden that comes with trying to reach a body’s full potential. It means acknowledging that life can be unfair, yes, and that we are all a part of a broader system…
Self-respect means having boundaries, protecting those boundaries, and then projecting the contents of those boundaries into the world — unapologetically — as long as they don’t infringe on the rights of other people and their boundaries. It also means le…