Birth trauma and miscarriage can lodge in the womb as stored stress, potentially causing fibroids and fertility problems. Since 95% of mental processing happens below awareness, somatic therapists help release these trapped memories. Healing the nervous system through specialized trauma care may restore reproductive health.
I think a lot of trauma is stored in the womb and they, you know, add to fibroid growth and other tumor abnormalities. And I don't think that most doctors put those two and two together and then patients definitely don't. I would love for you to speak more about that because what I hear often is, oh, I can handle my stressful life. It's not a big deal. And so the fact that they think mentally they're handling it means it's not affecting their physiology and their fertility, when in fact it absolutely is. And 95% of what you're believing and thinking is subconscious. So yeah, if you had an emergency C-section or, you know, a very traumatic—
or amnionitis and then hemorrhage—
labor, preeclampsia, A hemorrhage.
What if it was, or what if, what if something unfortunately happened? You just had a traumatic birth in general. Something happened to your first child, you know, like that's trauma right there. I mean, you almost dying or your child almost dying, or I mean, or you haven't even had a live birth.
All you've had is miscarriages, right?
Miscarriage trauma right there.
It all needs to be addressed. So where do women even start with that?
I mean, your, your body can be holding on to that memory, which then again is impacting that fertility. So it's not all in your head. It's back to that nervous system. So it's hard to explain over the computer how to correct this, but you need to find someone, not just a therapist, but a trauma therapist specifically. It'd be great if you could find a birth trauma therapist, and I have some resources for that. But locally, I had to go to someone who could take me back to that moment and talk me through. And I actually read a lot of I should have written these down, but a lot of great affirmations also, just honestly telling my subconscious, you can do this. It is safe to conceive. You know, this, this, um, what happened before is not going to repeat itself. It seemed almost silly at the time, but I think it is essential because your body will hang on to what happened. Your body wants to protect you. So you've got to convince your, your mind and your body that it's safe to proceed. Absolutely. I'm not a trauma therapist, but you got to find someone who can work you through that.
Yeah, I mean, locally we have someone who is a somatic therapist and she focuses on birth trauma and finding that, that blockage in your body and helping you work through it. So there— it's amazing, there's experts everywhere, small towns, big towns. You just have to know what to search for. And that's why I love your book, because you're like, here's what you even— where you even need to start, you know what I mean?
