The War on the Body, the Earth, and the Feminine: Why Womb Healing Matters
We live in a society that systematically disrupts women’s sense of safety, identity, and connection; to themselves, to one another, and to family. This disconnection shows up in violence statistics, health outcomes, family structures, and in the chronic dysregulation of the nervous system. This is why womb work matters.
Over the last two centuries, women’s relationship to work, family, and the body has changed dramatically. The industrial revolution reorganized life around productivity, efficiency, and standardized work hours. These systems were built in male-dominated spaces and did not account for women’s bodies, reproductive cycles, or caregiving roles.
As feminist movements fought — and continue to fight — for women’s rights to education, income, and autonomy, many women entered a world of work that was never redesigned to support them. While access and choice expanded, expectations at home often remained the same. Women were asked to do more, be more, and carry more, without equal structural support.
Today, conversations about feminism and femininity are often polarized. Some claim feminism caused women to lose their softness or intuition. I don’t believe that. Feminism has brought necessary freedoms. What I do question is how economic systems have absorbed women’s labor without honoring rest, embodiment, cyclical rhythms, or the invisible work of care.
Many women now live in a constant state of pressure. To perform, to produce, to keep up. Modern work culture values consistency and output, while the female body moves in cycles, roughly over a four-week hormonal rhythm that influences energy, focus, and emotional sensitivity. This mismatch can quietly pull women out of relationship with their bodies.
The cyclical nature of the feminine is mirrored in nature — through the moon, the seasons, and the rhythms of the Earth. In my view, a system that disconnects women from their cyclical nature is often the same system that exploits the Earth without reciprocity or respect. A truth long understood and honored in many Indigenous cultures.
This disconnection is further reinforced through the widespread use of hormone-disrupting chemicals, including PFAs, found in everyday body and beauty products. These substances are linked to inflammation, hormonal imbalance, and environmental harm, affecting not only women’s health, but the health of the planet itself.
Family structures have also shifted. Women having the ability to leave unsafe or unfulfilling relationships is essential. At the same time, many of us are navigating love, partnership, and parenting without strong cultural models for repair, devotion, and long-term care. In my experience, women ( as womb keepers ) often carry the emotional weight of these dynamics, not because it is solely their responsibility, but because they are deeply attuned to the environments in which children are formed and shaped.
When we lose connection to the body, we often lose connection to our inner knowing. Choice still exists, but decisions are made from survival, urgency, or expectation rather than from deep listening. This is one way disconnection from the womb shows up. As a loss of access to the body’s wisdom.
Disconnection from the womb is a sign of disconnection from the self, from identity, and from personal power. Making you an easy subject to control, exploit and disempower. That said, one of the most profound ways to challenge systems that disempower is through lived, embodied experience, not ideology alone.
When people are focused solely on survival and belonging, the world becomes a battleground of people-pleasing, comparison, policing, jealousy, and confusion. Capitalism, patriarchy, and media often echo the same message: you are not enough — do more, be more. This constant chasing keeps the nervous system locked in stress and reactivity.
Womb work is a healing modality that uses the body as the pathway back to the self. In my work, we move against the current of urgency and extraction. We slow down. We listen more than we speak. We create more than we consume. We reconnect to the senses, to simplicity, and to shared humanity.
The results speak for themselves. Clients report clearer communication, deeper intimacy, reconnection to sensation after years of numbness, stronger boundaries, greater clarity around desire, and a renewed sense of aliveness, softness, patience, and creativity.
This work matters because it is not only personal. The womb holds the imprint of the generations that came before us and those that will come after. The healing we do ripples backward and forward. Honoring lineage, restoring tradition, and remembering what it means to live in relationship.
Many spiritual communities dream of eco-villages, shared land, mutual care, and peaceful coexistence. A life that feels like heaven on Earth. I believe this way of living begins by healing the first community we are ever part of: the family. And families begin in the womb.