Rage in the Womb
Anger weaves through our blood and bones and only when we remember to listen, do we hear the voice that was once silenced.
Before we begin, let her first speak…
My womb is here to honour my desires,
to not only seek pleasure,
but to find joy in pleasure.
She is here to create.
She is here to be felt.
She speaks,
she nurtures,
she expresses.
She roars,
she softens,
she is powerful.
She trusts her instincts.
She always listens.
But when she is silenced,
she stores the unsaid.
Carries the shame,
swells with tension.
She cramps,
contracts,
screams with unspoken rage.
Her tenderness hardens.
She forgets how to receive.
She waits for the day
to come home.
To feel safe,
to honour, to feel.
To listen, to speak,
to remember, that she too
is a voice.
With one hand on our heart,
and one on our womb,
we close our eyes and say:
“I hear you now.”
-Meena x
I wanted to create this poem as a doorway to the complex emotions many women hold deep inside. The rage, grief, and fierce power that lives in the womb. In this post, we’ll explore how womb energy manifests, how it affects us, moves through us and ways we can hold space and transform it.
Most women who’ve experienced unhealthy or unsafe relationships find that the reproductive area is often the first to absorb the impact. Irregular periods. Fertility struggles. Pelvic tension. For some, trauma leads to disconnection. Sex can feel distant, dissociated, or numb. We fear intimacy, not because we don’t want closeness, but because our bodies have learned that protection feels safer than surrender.
Cheating or ongoing tension with a partner can stir a deep, silent rage that settles in the womb. These experiences trigger betrayal, grief, anger, and shame, these emotions are intensely felt in the body’s emotional centre: the Sacral Chakra. Such trauma can create deep wounds that disrupt a woman’s sense of safety, trust, and intimacy, all essential to sacral energy.
Trauma shows up in many forms. Sometimes through direct relationship wounds but not just with partners. The mother wound. The sister wound. The gossip girls. The bullies. The friendships that cut deep. Other times, it appears through medical experiences, or in the subtle ways our bodies respond to long-held pain and stress that wasn’t fully expressed. Trauma can also live in the body’s response to being unheard or dismissed. When the pain inside is silenced, or we live a life that betrays our truth, it stores itself in the womb even when we don’t fully understand it.
I understand this intimately. I carried trauma in my womb for many years, quietly storing pain at a time when conversations like this simply didn’t exist. I remember when doctors dismissed me, leaving me feeling even more alone and unheard. Looking back, I know it wasn’t me speaking, it was my womb. The more she tried to speak, the more she was silenced. If a doctor couldn’t help me, then who could? Late at night, I would search through online forums, reading other women’s stories just to feel less isolated.
I didn’t have the language then. All I knew was that something inside didn’t feel right. I was in constant panic that something was wrong with my body, and it was causing me distress. Mentally, emotionally, and in intimacy. It wasn’t until years later, after being made to feel like I was overreacting and crying to anyone who would listen, that research on PTS and women’s experiences of reproductive and relational trauma began to shed light on what I had been going through.
Even now, as I write this, I resist sharing. There’s fear. There’s silence to protect my story… the irony. But there’s also a voice that refuses to be gagged. I now understand what it means when they say “the body keeps the score.” I truly believe the womb records and stores.
Where the rage lives…
Research in somatic psychology and trauma healing shows how unexpressed emotions especially anger and rage get stored in the body, particularly in the pelvic and abdominal regions. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, describes how trauma imprints on the nervous system, often resulting in chronic pain, tension, and emotional disconnection. For many women, this manifests as a fierce rage felt deep in the womb, a visceral energy that refuses to be silenced. This rage isn’t anger for anger’s sake; it’s the body’s way of holding space for injustice, pain, and boundary violations, both spoken and unspoken.
It can show up as tension, heaviness, cramps, or an unsettled energy that shifts with our cycles and our lives. The womb becomes a sacred site of power and protest, holding stories we can’t always tell. When a woman suppresses her truth, her womb listens. She holds space for what the voice couldn’t. The womb is more than a physical organ, it is an emotional archive. A vessel where grief, rage, heartbreak, and shame go when there’s no safe place to express them.
Additionally, Anodea Judith, a leading authority on the chakra system, identifies the Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana), located in the womb area, as the energetic centre for emotions, creativity, and sexual energy. She notes that blockages in this centre often caused by unresolved rage or trauma can deeply disrupt our emotional flow, sensuality, and creative life force.
Ignoring this rage or pushing it away creates deep disconnection, often manifesting as burnout, anxiety, or physical symptoms. Energetically, this suppression becomes stagnation: a heavy stillness that settles in the pelvic bowl. It might feel like a dull ache, tightness in the lower belly, or a sense of being blocked from your own desire, creativity, or intuition. Over time, this weight speaks through the body: irregular periods, bloating, womb tension, hip or lower back pain, endometriosis, fibroids, numbness during intimacy, and a loss of connection to pleasure.
Womb data…
Research suggests that chronic stress, suppressed anger, and nervous system dysregulation contribute to hormonal imbalances, including fibroid development. Emotional suppression may even influence gene expression in uterine tissue via small regulators called microRNAs (molecules that shape how the body responds to stress and inflammation). This research highlights the impact of stress and its effect on reproductive health, showing how emotional wounds can become physical ones.
As a woman, I know this not only from lived experience but through countless conversations. Stories where the womb mirrors emotional distress especially around betrayal. Time and again I hear about thrush, UTIs, or pelvic pain flaring up after infidelity, heartbreak, or emotional overload. In many spiritual traditions, recurring thrush is seen as a sign of breached boundaries, a physical echo of emotional toxicity or unresolved trauma. An entanglement with draining, ‘dark’ energy that often precedes candida overgrowth.
These symptoms are rooted in emotional memory:
The times you stayed quiet to feel safe.
The relationships that silenced or shamed you.
The trauma passed through your maternal line.
The years spent holding it all together, over-giving, caretaking, while your own needs were unmet.
Every “I’m fine” when you weren’t.
Every “yes” when you meant no.
Your womb remembered it all.
In the world of feminine healing, pioneers like Dr. Christiane Northrup urge us to honour the body’s signals and emotions as sacred intelligence especially in reproductive health. The womb is energetically linked to both the heart and throat chakras. She is a sacred mirror. When we begin to feel her; the tension, the grief, the heat, we realise:
We are not broken. Our womb is burdened. She is asking to be heard.
Everything we suppress falls into the shadows.
The emotions we swallowed.
The words we never said.
The parts of us labelled "too much."
They don’t vanish. They wait.
This is where the dark feminine lives.
Not a shadow to fear but a force to remember.
She is raw, unfiltered truth.
Fierce wisdom.
Untamed power.
To meet her is to meet the parts of ourselves we were told to hide.
To feel what we were taught to numb.
Rage wants to speak.
It’s not chaos it’s a signal.
Like an animal in the wild, it growls when threatened.
Bares its teeth when vulnerable.
This is your sacred instinct.
A warning bell. A fire. A boundary-maker.
Womb rage doesn’t come from nowhere.
It’s born of silence.
Of betrayals.
Of being touched without reverence.
Of being expected to carry everyone’s pain while swallowing your own.
It is a sacred protest.
A full-bodied NO.
And if you don’t let it speak, it won’t disappear.
It will sink deeper into the body.
Festering in the womb.
Tightening the jaw, the hips, the heart.
Clogging your creativity.
Numbing your pleasure.
Disconnecting you from your own knowing.
Eventually, it devours you from within.
Protecting your sacral isn’t about shutting down, it’s about becoming sovereign.
Knowing who and what you allow in.
Reclaiming boundaries, your pleasure, your intuition.
Trusting your wombs instincts.
This is your inner fire. Your truth. Your reclamation.
But first, we must listen to the rage.
Meet the Rage of Your Womb…
Find a quiet, uninterrupted space.
Sit or lie down in a way that feels safe and supported.
Place your hands over your womb space and close your eyes.
Begin to breathe deeply, slowly, sending your breath down into your pelvis.
With each inhale, soften. With each exhale, release.
Let your body drop into stillness.
When you're ready, affirm to your womb that it’s safe to speak. You are ready to listen
Hold space for her, don’t rush the process.
Then, silently ask:
“Womb, what do you want me to know?”
“What am I holding here that’s ready to be felt?”
Let the question land. You may have more questions, share your intrigue.
Don’t force an answer. Simply listen. Feel. Sense.
You might notice heat, emotion, a colour, a memory, a word, or nothing at all.
Emotions might rise, anger, tears, laughter, silence, numbness, fear, panic.
You might want to scream, shout, howl sing, sigh a breath.
All of it is welcome!
If it feels right, begin to gently move your hips or hum,
give sound or rhythm to what wants to be expressed.
Let your body guide you.
Stay as long as you need to,
when you’re ready, start to bring your awareness back to the space,
gentle breaths, gentle movements…
You can journal what arises or simply rest in the presence of your womb, then continue to journal any thoughts or sensations over the next few days. Sometimes the womb unfolds her messages slowly. She’s great for decision making, she’s great for seeking clarity. She is your perfect guide.
Our wombs carry many layers, ancestral, emotional, energetic. They deserve time, presence, and safe release. If today’s practice stirred something in you, I invite you to continue the journey.
Download my free PDF ritual: Clearing the Rage – A Womb Alchemy Ritual
Inside, you’ll be guided through a gentle but powerful energetic clearing to release stored tension, soothe emotional build-up, and reconnect with the voice of your womb.
If you feel the call, I also offer 1:1 Womb Healing Sessions where we can explore what’s rising for you in a personal way . You can book below
