The Invisible Corset: Break Free from Beauty Culture and Embrace Your Radiant Self

By Lauren Geertsen

Book Overview

Learn to love your body--for real this time

Women in touch with the wisdom of their bodies are the single greatest threat to societal systems of domination, oppression, and control. We are also the greatest possibility to bring healing, peace, and restoration to our world. --Lauren Geertsen

No matter how much we try to tell ourselves to love our bodies and accept our flaws, most women can't quite get there. Even though we know the beauty standard is unrealistic, we secretly feel like it would be so much easier if our stomach were just a little flatter, or our skin a little smoother, or a million other little things. As a result, we sacrifice our health, heritage, sanity, and lives on the altar of beauty culture. Why is it so hard to feel confident about our bodies, or even just accept them?

Because willpower alone isn't enough to undo generations of brainwashing intended to repress women's confidence and power. In The Invisible Corset, Geertsen carefully illustrates the psychological gaslighting that leads women to internalize the belief that their appearance makes them not only unworthy of love, but incapable of fulfilling their actual destiny. By highlighting each restricting string of the invisible corset all women wear, Geertsen helps us reclaim our bodies for ourselves, discovering newfound confidence, power, joy, and pleasure as we do. You'll explore:

- How the invisible corset cuts you off from your body's wisdom and nature's intelligence--the true sources of your intuition, pleasure, and power
- How beauty culture is the most recent form of patriarchal oppression -- and why women are both responsible and able to free ourselves
- Why the body positivity movement often makes self-criticism even worse
- The racist history of beauty culture, and how it still perpetuates racism today
- Journaling prompts, rituals, meditations, and other exercises to help unravel the toxic beliefs that keep the invisible corset in place
- A variety of practices to help you reconnect with your body--to tune into your intuition, set healthy boundaries, align with your True Self, and more

For any woman who is ready to go from struggle, discomfort, control, and shame to pleasure, confidence, freedom, and soul-fulfilling purpose, The Invisible Corset is an essential guide.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683646185
• ISBN13: 9781683646181
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

a great book for all women

the book is first of all a testimony how the author herself ended up in several unwanted relationships, and managed to recognize them as such, and break free. She gives advise as how to do this. She also points out, how the media and all kinds of propaganda make us women vulnerable, and how to recognize this. Coming from a very different background and many years older, I see how this book would have helped me earlier in life, and it was very enjoyable to read, how this young woman managed to work herself up from the pitfalls of modern life.