How the Invisible Corset Disconnects Women From Their Bodies

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In “The Invisible Corset,” author Lauren Geertsen describes culturally inherited beliefs that make people feel uncomfortable and restricted in their bodies, as if they wore the whalebone corsets of long ago. While the invisible corset affects everyone in our modern society, it specifically targets women through the beauty, diet, and cosmetic surgery industries.

The five main “strings” of the corset are fear, domination, disconnection, mechanization, and coercion. As long as we’re wearing the corset, we see our bodies as machines to control instead of wise beings to trust. A machine isn’t capable of communicating with nature, healing itself, or making intuitive choices. Only a living being can do that.

3 Signs of Body Disconnection

Here are three key ways in which the invisible corset makes women disconnect from their bodies.

1. We Prioritize Appearance Over Experience

When it comes to makeup, chronic dieting, highly uncomfortable but fashionable clothing, or cosmetic surgery, I often hear women say, “I’m doing it for me, because it makes me feel good.”