Womb Trauma
The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in the body and a vital part of the parasympathetic nervous system, our natural mechanism for rest, repair, and restoration. It connects the brain directly to the heart, lungs, gut, and even the cervix, weaving the body into an intricate map of safety and regulation.
What many don’t realize is that the cervix is one of the only internal organs with a direct line of communication to the brain, bypassing the spinal cord. She is deeply innervated by the pelvic branch of the vagus nerve. This means the nervous system and the womb are intimately entwined. When the cervix is touched, whether through intimacy, medical interventions, or trauma the entire system feels it.
This is why womb centered trauma reverberates far beyond the pelvis. It can dysregulate our nervous system, shape our sense of safety, and fracture the way we trust intimacy, love, and even life itself.
Womb trauma can look like:
• s3xual assault or violation
• traumatic birth or obstetric violence
• miscarriage, abortion, or womb loss
• invasive medical interventions such as LEEP procedures, D&Cs, or forced sterilization
• hysterectomies (especially when coerced or not fully consented)
• routine procedures like Pap smears that were painful, shaming, or retraumatizing
• the silence or dismissal that follows when our pain is ignored
The wound here is not only what happened, but the isolation that follows. When our pain is not named, validated, or held, the nervous system often stays locked in the trauma because there was no witness, no acknowledgment, and no soothing presence.
((This is why so much of womb restoration is about creating a space where the body, the story, and the soul are finally seen, heard, and honored))
How Womb Trauma Shows Up in the Aftermath
In the body:
Chronic pelvic pain, tension in the hips and lower belly, menstrual irregularities, numbness or hypersensitivity in the cervix or yoni. The nervous system locked in hypervigilance or collapse, digestion disrupted, breath shallow. The body feels like it cannot fully exhale. This can manifest as anxiety, hyper-vigilance, periodic rage, emotional breakdowns, and hyper sensitivity especially right before and during menstruation. I have found what most diagnose as PMDD is truly a magnified manifestation of womb trauma being expressed through a disregulated cervix & vagus nerve.
In the mind:
Loops of self doubt, shame, or unworthiness. A sense of being “too much” or “not enough.” Difficulty trusting your perceptions, second-guessing choices, struggling with anxiety or depressive undercurrents that seem to have no clear cause.
In sexuality:
Loss of desire, difficulty feeling pleasure, fear of intimacy, or dissociation during sex. Sometimes the opposite can occur where one seeks intensity or reenactment as a way to feel alive. A deep ache for closeness paired with fear of being hurt again.
In the soul:
A fracture in trust not only with people, but with Life itself. Feeling cut off from God, from love, & from belonging.
I speak of womb trauma in all its forms not to dwell in pain, but to honor what has too often been ignored. These are not just wounds we carry alone but our mothers and her mother’s mothers have carried these imprints intergenerationally. We finally have the ability to name, witness, integrate and reclaim what most often our precious ancestors could not. For when we bring truth into the light, the body can begin to exhale, as the soul remembers its way back into healing.
This is why I teach this. To remind you that what you carry is not yours alone, to give language to the silence, and to open the door toward restoration.
For when one womb heals, a lineage exhales, and life itself is restored.