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Botox, Beauty Standards, and the Patriarchy: Your Body, Your Choice

Author
Alissa Alter
Published
Mon 11 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://mythofmotherhood.libsyn.com/botox-beauty-standards-and-the-patriarchy-your-body-your-choice

Let’s talk about beauty standards and how they’ve been designed to keep women busy, distracted, and questioning themselves so we can’t spend that time and energy fighting the patriarchy.

Here’s the thing: you do not need Botox. AND—you get to choose Botox. Or fillers. Or a breast reduction! Or none of it!!!

Because the power isn’t in whether you do it, the power is in choosing how you invest your most valuable resources: your thoughts, energy, time, and money.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

✨ How beauty culture hijacks women’s attention and resources

✨ The difference between unconscious conformity and intentional choice

✨ Why self-investment (whatever form it takes) can be an act of resistance

✨ How to align your choices with your values and mission—without shame You get to decide what supports you in building a life in alignment with your purpose.

You get to be in charge of your body and your resources. And you get to refuse the lie that there’s only one right way to show up in this world.

Because when you’re living in your alignment? You’re a whole lot harder to control.

🎧 Listen now, follow/subscribe, share with a friend and reclaim your right to choose—from a place of power, not pressure.

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