Illusions, Corina Taylor
Illusions, Corina Taylor
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Illusions
My Journey to Freedom

Author: Corina Taylor

Narrator: Sarah Grace Wright

Unabridged: 2 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 12/15/2021


Synopsis

Six years after her husband’s sudden death, Corina Taylor still felt the heaviness and deep pain of loss. As she embarked on a journey of self-discovery, every uncomfortable truth about herself, her relationships, the world she inhabited, and the systems and structures that silently governed her beliefs and behaviors slowly began to unravel, ultimately prompting the powerful realization that the death she was grieving was not her husband’s, but her own. For many years she conformed to the roles and expectations society placed on her, listened to the “shoulds,” and became attached to stories that did not serve her. She lost herself in the process. As Corina began to look within, she learned how our systems distort our reality, mask our true nature and alter our behaviour in destructive ways. Once she stopped assuming systems are a given, she chose to interact differently with them or abandon them entirely. By seeing them for what they are, their power over her eventually dissolved, allowing her to reclaim her autonomy and freedom. Illusions shares a roadmap of how one woman removed the blinders, healed her wounds, and dismantled the status quo after the sudden death of her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on March 03, 2009

I believe this book moved me more than any other before or since. Not because the writing was so great but the thoughts contained in it were so close to what I was feeling as a 19 year old away from home and on my own for the first time. I still believe the ideas contained here are timeless and prof......more

Goodreads review by Dickie on February 20, 2012

This book changed my life. Over and over again. That is the simplest way to put it. One day a girl came into the pizza parlor I was working at and I commented on her tramp stamp. (It was as always, an attempt to get her to lower the jeans) - It was a blue feather tattoo. I asked what it represented......more

Goodreads review by Sfdreams on July 05, 2007

I LOVED this book!! I read it over and over and have given copies to several people. The book starts off with a "handwritten" and smudged story, written like books in the Bible, by a auto mechanic who discovered the Divine in himself and was followed by throngs of people,who called him a messiah, unt......more

Goodreads review by Rajat on October 03, 2012

I call anything sounding grand and oh-so-awesome but actually meaning squat a Richard Bach quote. Illusions, to summarize, is a compendium of such quotes. However, I gave the book two stars only because it is consistent with the philosophy it preaches. The idea that the book is saying anything of c......more

Goodreads review by Madeline on April 11, 2010

um... probably the nicest thing to say about this book would be... a dumb mans "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" anyway, i saw this book at a garage sale for 25cents... that made me pick it up. what made me *buy* it was this introduction "I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back......more