Podcast
We Can Do Hard Things
Alok Vaid-Menon, the author and public speaker, feels that transness gave them the opportunity to go through the sacred human practice of self-birth. They believe that birth is something we can do at any time, choosing to give birth to a different version of ourselves.
And I had to actually go home and look at myself in the mirror and being like am I what other people see me as? And I had to say no, I am beautiful. And so transness gave me the opportunity, the luxur...
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Alok Vaid-Menon, the author and public speaker, feels that transness gave them the opportunity to go through the sacred human practice of self-birth. They believe that birth is something we can do at any time, choosing to give birth to a different version of ourselves.
And I had to actually go home and look at myself in the mirror and being like am I what other people see me as? And I had to say no, I am beautiful. And so transness gave me the opportunity, the luxury, the privilege, the power of having to do that sacred human practice of self-birth.
Birth is something that we can always do. We can decide to give birth to a different version of ourselves. And what transness demanded I did is if you are going to live this life, you're going to have to give birth to a version of yourself that's able to realize that all of this other stuff is projection. What is so true and is so real is your beauty.