Trauma from your Mother’s Womb
Not all ancestral trauma is from generations ago. Some of it was inherited through your experience while you were in your mother’s womb (and even your grandmother’s womb!).
This formative time, whether you consciously remember it or not, shaped you in many ways — including your DNA, emotional state, and psychological health.
“All the eggs a woman will every carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother. This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother.
Each of us spent five months in our grandmother’s womb and she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother.
We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother's blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.”
—Layne Redmond
A part of ancestral healing is to look at what your mother experienced while she was pregnant with you.
In order to heal our deepest ancestral patterns and wounds that seem to follow us around our entire lifetime, we must heal our trauma from our time in our mother’s womb.
Your parents may have gotten in a fight while you were in the womb, or one cheated on the other
Your mother may have deeply wanted you but originally, your father did not
Your mother may have lost a parent or a close friend
The list of possibilities goes on and on — and most of the time, these traumatic stories go untold, yet they still impact you tremendously
Whatever emotions your mother experienced during your gestation, you also received. This is chemical and hormonal — and her perceived stress, sadness, or danger was shared with you because you were so deeply connected and living as one.
Studies have been done on mothers who were holocaust survivors with PTSD, and pregnant women who were in the World Trade Center during 9/11.
It was found that the children of these mothers “had a significantly higher rate of developing serious psychological problems after traumatic experiences” such as assault and rape. (Source: Rachel Yehuda PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience)
This is scientific proof of how ancestral trauma is passed down a lineage. Additionally, it shows what a powerful imprint trauma has on us while we are in our mother’s womb.
Your time in the womb was so formative to your being that you may see the effects of in-utero trauma without even realizing where it’s from.
This deep DNA and emotional connection between baby and mother runs so deep, and looking into it can spark profound realizations and revelations on your own healing journey.
I’ve done this work myself and it’s been some of the most profound I’ve ever experienced.
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