Healing Religious Trauma Through the Womb

Women with unprocessed religious trauma often develop survival tools and coping mechanisms, out of self-protection.

So we start hating on men and blaming patriarchy.

Or find validation and temporary relief in goddess/feminine rising culture.

We denounce anything associated with God, Father, and male-authority and leadership.

All these further our ruptures with God, men, and primal masculine qualities we crave in HIM.

Aside from the spiritual and the somatic, we need to address the physical.

Religious trauma has a lasting effect on our body’s stress response.

It leads to chronic inflammation, elevated cortisol that ends up as hormonal imbalances such as estrogen dominance, and thyroid hormone dysregulation.

It also targets a woman’s womb, reproductive system, and her feminine identity, animal body, and capacity to feel and be wildly alive.

Having worked with many women who grew up in abusive Christian cults, these are some physical-somatic symptoms I’ve witnessed:

• Pain, tension, and rigidity in lower back, belly, and pelvis
• Disassociation from cervix/womb/pelvis. Lack of sensation. Pelvic misalignment. And even fertility and birth complications
• Pain and growth in/out the womb - fibroids, PMS, adenomyosis, endometriosis, etc.
• Shame/Repression around the body, intimacy, vulnerability, and or/sexuality. Feeling blocked and guarded
• Struggle to connect with heart, desire, and feeling graciousness and pleasure in life, because the womb and heart are closed off and divided from one another

Over time, our tissues become dehydrated, rigid, tense, and numb, which then translates to chronic fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.

This is when women have “frozen sex” where he’s hitting your cervix and there’s pain, but you override it and keep going.

Or blindly devote and over-give to men who are not the right fit.

Non-sexual touch to create intimacy and safety with your body and sense of self, is a good place to start.

Going beyond that, women need to learn more about their pelvic tissues, and how the vitality of their yoni, cervix, and womb impacts their overall nervous system, hence, every experience in their lives.

Chronic and lineage trauma literally changes the shape of our fascia.

It makes us tighten up from hyperviligence.

So much of this is held in the pelvic bowl.

Many women gravitate toward the more etheric union teachings of the womb right off the bat.

But to actually live, and *whole* from this mother organ called uterus, invites you into the physical, so you can metabolize your human experiences in a more “in-bodied” way.

Because the energetic and spiritual work you are doing, needs a *home* to anchor into.

It means, to come into relationship with your female anatomy. Your blood and fluids. And your tissues.

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