02/02/2026
Reflection — Witnessing the Womb
We often carry the assumption that healing requires suffering — that we must dive back into wounds, relive pain, and move through grief and struggle in order to transform. Over time, the mind constructs a narrative of what happened to us — personally, collectively, and through our motherline. This narrative is history.
Yet through the practice I call Witnessing the Womb, something else reveals itself.
The womb relates to experience in a very different way.
She carries her own story — herstory.
She holds beautiful experiences with the same devotion as challenging ones: giving birth; the rhythms of menarche, menstruation, and menopause; moments of intimacy, pleasure, and creation. She also holds what was painful or overwhelming: sexual encounters without love, difficult menstruation, intense or traumatic births, loss, gynaecological conditions, and invasive medical interventions.
All of it is held — written in the palm of the womb’s hand.
When her story is witnessed with unconditional love and a non-judging presence, something remarkable happens. What emerges is a direct experience of her resilience. She reveals her organic intelligence — an alchemical capacity to transform lived experience into wisdom.
This is not about forgetting or bypassing.
The womb invites presence.
Acknowledgement.
Feeling.
Listening.
And in that presence, she shows — through sensation and inner knowing — how whole she already is. Pain and beauty, memory and vitality, contraction and expansion coexist within her spacious field.
This was palpable in yesterday’s circle.
What we touched was her vastness — her fullness — polarities finding their place within a larger embrace. A lived experience of her alchemical capacity.
With Imbolc, this offered a supportive foundation for the returning light — including our own inner light and radiance. A reconnection with the inner spark that longs for creative emergence, aligned with the Full Moon in Leo and its invitation into bold expression, creativity, and loving leadership.
Witnessing the Womb is one of the first practices in the Womb Awakening & Healing Retreat and the 9-Moon Womb Awakening Path. From this place of listening, the healing journey is shaped by the womb herself, rather than the assumptions of the mind.
And perhaps most importantly, it restores trust:
in the body,
in the womb’s intelligence,
and in the wisdom already alive within.
