3 Signs that You Need to Heal Your Motherline
Usha Anandi. 11 | January | 2025
One of my spiritual inspirations, the late and great Ram Dass, says, “If you think you’re enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.”
And my goddess – isn’t that true?
We all hold the experiences of our ancestors within our wombs. For many of us, the physical, energetic, and emotional challenges we live with aren’t just our own – they’re inherited.
That’s why in our 6-Week Womb Sciences Immersion, we spend the first week diving into ancestral healing.
You don’t have to heal alone. By signing up now, you’ll get to embark on this journey with a group of inspiring women who understand you.
Womb Sciences is all about alchemizing the science and the sacred. Expect nerdy lectures about epigenetics and emerging science on how you can change your DNA, plus guided somatic practices to honor where you came from while letting go of what isn’t yours to carry.
Some call it ancestral healing, others call it healing ancestral challenges. However you want to put it, healing your ancestors is something that most of us sorely need, even if we haven’t noticed it yet.
Here are 3 Signs It’s Time to Heal Your Motherline
1. Recurring Patterns in Your Relationships
Do you notice the same challenges showing up in your relationships, especially with other women? These patterns could be inherited behaviors or beliefs passed down through generations, rooted in your motherline.
2. Physical or Emotional Womb Challenges
Painful periods, fertility struggles, or a sense of disconnection from your womb space may indicate unresolved issues in your lineage.
3. Feelings of Guilt or Shame Around Femininity
If you’ve inherited unspoken rules or feelings of shame about menstruation, sexuality, or creativity, it’s time to dive deeper into your ancestral connection to transform these narratives.
On my own healing journey and in the work I do with womben of all backgrounds, I’ve been astonished by the connection between what arises in our own bodies and the similarities to what our ancestors have experienced themselves.
Our bodies are storytellers, holding both the pain and the resilience of our lineage. It’s up to us to decipher those stories, even if they aren’t clear right away.
We store trauma in a bunch of different ways, and recognizing HOW we do so is the first step to healing.
Trauma isn’t just a memory in the mind; it’s an imprint on the body.
When we experience these challenges, especially intergenerationally, our nervous system adapts to keep us safe.
This can result in chronic tension, unexplained pain, or a sense of disconnection from parts of ourselves.
For womben, this often shows up in the pelvis, the hips, and the womb space. These areas can hold tightness, numbness, or even pain as the body’s way of “protecting” us from revisiting old wounds.
Through somatic practices, we can begin to release these stories and create space for healing.
But before we go any further, let’s explore a few questions together…
- What is/was your Mother’s relationship with her body, womb, menstrual cycle, and sexuality? (If you don’t know or don’t have a relationship with your Mother, pick another important female role model in your life.)
- What are the things you learned from your Mother or other role models about femininity, menstruation, sexuality, and life as a woman?
- What is your relationship to your menstrual cycle, sexuality, creativity, and overall experience of being a woman?
- Do you see any similarities between what your Mother believed about her body, what you learned from her, and the relationship you have with your body now?
I remember when I was teaching Ancestral Healing at our last in-person training in Mexico. I asked a room of 22 women these questions.
At the end, when I asked if they saw any similarities between them and their Mothers, all hands went up in the air as a resounding ‘YES.’
It’s undeniable: our bodies hold the residue of both our own life experience and the experience of our ancestors.
These stories are passed down from generation to generation until someone, like you, has the courage, time, and tools to reprogram them.
Sometimes, we relate to the body based on information we learned in school.
Sometimes, we relate to the body based on the words our Mother uttered under her breath.
Every time I return home to visit family, I’m convinced that I’ve come so far, I’ve developed so much. I’m gonna be groovy, I tell myself. I’ve healed this; I’ve released that.
Then, BAM!
I sit down at dinner with family and it all comes flooding back.
Oh, HELLOOOO old patterns and parts of myself I’ve forgotten exist, nice to see you again! I thought you were integrated and released, but here you are, staring at me in the face.
Pleasure 
I write with lightness because sometimes, family stuff feels so heavy that we can only make jokes to save us from crying. But despite the challenges that arise, here’s something I’ve noticed over the years…
This work WORKS.
The more tools I gather to support myself, the more I can respond to my family from a place of presence rather than react from an old wound.
I can’t do the work for them, but I can take responsibility for my side of the street and that, for me and my family, has made all the difference.
No matter what environment you come from, you have the power to heal – not only for yourself but for all those who walked before you, too.
And this isn’t just woo-woo stuff.
Actually, one of my favorite emerging fields of research called epigenetics proves we have the power to modify our DNA.
Epigenetics proves that what we eat, who we interact with, what activities we fill our days with, how we move our bodies, our challenges, our triumphs, our sleep habits, our intimate relationships, and overall lifestyle have the ability to either TURN ON specific genes or SILENCE them.
Previously, it was thought that if heart disease runs in your family, for example, you were destined to get it as well. Epigenetics shows us the contrary.
We hold the true power to shape our destiny based on the choices we make right now.
In our 6-Week Online Womb Sciences Immersion, we spend the entire first week of the course unearthing the connection to our ancestors.
That’s not all, though. Each week, we’ll cover one of these topics:
- Ancestry
- Anatomy
- Energetic
- Menstruation
- Imbalances
- Integration
And of course, we learn how to differentiate between patterns, stories, and even physical symptoms we’ve inherited that we want to LET GO of and the incredible blessings, resiliency, and wisdom gifted to us from them.
If you’re ready to start healing your relationship to your body, your womb, and your ancestors, the doors to Womb Sciences are always open – join us.
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