When the Womb Speaks, the Butterfly Will Listen
Featured in Home for Runaway Girls
At the end of 2025, I set an intention for 2026: to write more, with the aim of getting my work published. I bought myself a journal and decided I would write every single day, strings of words, poetry, thoughts, and feelings, something more intentional than automatic writing.
I love the art of writing, and I wanted to push the boundaries of where my work sits and how I could make it accessible to the world. So I couldn’t believe my luck when, in January, Home for Runaway Girls shared that they were looking for writers, artists, and creators to submit to their brand paper, The Velvet Moon Gazette. My piece was selected in February and went to print in March, it was incredible how quickly one small intention opened up an opportunity like that.
The theme was ‘metamorphosis’, and we were free to create anything we wanted. I had a few ideas, but I knew I wanted to create something intentional that felt like an offering to women. Before I began, I asked myself one question: what do the women of the world need to hear right now?
So I took the theme into meditation and let myself channel what wanted to come through until it became clear what I wanted to create. (By the way, this is a great exercise to do when you’re unsure or indecisive about something. I find that we always know what we want to do; we just need to dig beneath the logical mind to get there).
Once I got what I needed, the concept felt clear: I wanted to write about the womb and how disconnection from women’s bodies severs us from our instincts and embodied knowledge. I always like to begin my writing with a poem, as it helps me feel into the theme and what I want to speak about. I find this process more fluid before moving into the details.
I love research and read widely. I find that the more I read, the more I understand what modern women are navigating. My core intention was to create an activation with this piece of writing. I wanted it to be more than just a think piece, but something you could journey with, a way to reconnect to your spirit through your womb.
I feel strongly about making my work as accessible as possible, while also pushing the line of how healing can be experienced. Sometimes we need something immediate, and we don’t always have the time, space, or access to seek support there and then. Sometimes we need something that can serve us in the comfort of our own space. I wanted to create this activation so it could be done anywhere, you could have a friend read it aloud, or even record yourself and listen back.
This piece is a doorway for you, a way to reconnect, remember, and reclaim your personal power.
Time to enter the journey… Enjoy x
Home for Runaway Girls
My womb is a portal to another land,
hidden beneath what we think we know.
She is the map that traces us,
guiding us back home.
There is a truth that aches deep in your body.
Tension pulsates,
grief and rage.
Taught to forget,
mistrust our instincts,
perhaps this is when power was caged.
Once you remember ,
you’ll feel the flutters,
that lights every cell of the body.
Signs, symbols become the codes
but somehow, we misread the story.
Our womb is caught in the web of the matrix,
centuries of centuries,
re-wiring our roles.
Memories erased,
knowledge erased,
disconnecting the power it holds.
But if we keep that connection longer,
we can transcend to one another.
The power of three… well, that was not just for TV.
We’re finding our way,
the ancient way,
returning back to the spirit of the womb.
-Love Meena
A woman’s guide to embodied knowledge
If we take a moment to observe nature, butterflies across many cultures have long symbolised life, death, and the veil between worlds. In shamanic culture, the butterfly is a valuable teacher as it shares gifts of going within. They remind us that true transformation is never a full stop, but an evolving passage through each life stage. Change requires intention, patience, and ritual. In the same way, women’s own cycles of transformation demand attentiveness to body, mind, and spirit, or the instincts for renewal risk being lost.
Through my work as an energy healer and feminine embodiment coach, a consistent pattern emerges. Women arrive carrying experiences that have lived in silence for years, often cut off from their bodies and their own internal signals. This disconnection does not arise in isolation; it is shaped by historical and cultural conditioning, reinforced by peers, parents, caregivers, and teachers who puncture women’s desires before they are fully formed.
There is a primal knowing, a kind of intelligence the body carries, I call this the spirit of the womb. It carries memory, intuition, and creative intelligence, passed from one generation to the next. Not in textbooks, but in our cells and bones, carried by the wisest women so the next generation could thrive. Across history, they were recognised as custodians of life cycles and medicine, preserving communal wisdom through generations. Stories like the Red Tent, which recount women gathering during menstruation, symbolise how this embodied ritual was honoured and wielded as power. The womb is the keeper of ancient knowledge, which has become silenced, rewritten, and long forgotten, forcing many into disconnection from cyclical ways of living, a wounding that affects the modern-day woman.
Today, this rupture is compounded by modern life. ‘Good, obedient’ women are rarely encouraged to honour their appetite, their boundaries, or their innate knowing. Their inner calling and desires are redirected by preconditioned expectations long before they have the agency to question them. Sex is framed as sinful. The body becomes something to manage, conceal, or endure. Even the first experience of menstruation often arrives without guidance or reverence, reduced to shame and silence rather than recognised as a rite of passage. Many Indigenous traditions and contemporary researchers note that our bodies carry ancestral memory which is often suppressed by modern cultural codes, further removing us from embodied ways of living.
Across history, we were recognised as powerful, intuitive beings, but this authority was gradually undermined. As Silvia Federici notes in Caliban and the Witch, women’s bodies were historically controlled, disciplined, and separated from communal, cyclical life. Social systems fragmented the body, turned it into labour, and stripped away agency, silencing the instinctive knowledge that once guided life.
Many ancient systems from Eastern philosophy to martial traditions understand the body as being shaped by elemental forces. In both Chinese and Japanese frameworks, five-element systems describe biological and energetic principles that govern our vitality. These principles reflect the body’s innate intelligence and its relationship with the natural world, markers that once informed how we lived, healed, and created. Rebuilding this relationship is not about returning to the past, but about integrating ancient knowledge into contemporary life as we relearn how to listen and embody these signals if we are to live in a more sustainable, attuned way.
The impact of this disconnection reveals itself through daily life as burnout, chronic fatigue, and hormonal or reproductive challenges. It appears in emotional strain, anxiety, disrupted sleep, or the persistent feeling of being stuck in roles or relationships that no longer align with us.
Over time, as we lose touch with our desire and personal power, the body learns to override its own signals, defaulting to conformity rather than self-trust.
The medicine to overcome this disconnection lies in the womb’s intelligence. The body carries memory and instinct which, when listened to and embodied, can guide women back to themselves. Nature has always understood this intelligence. If a caterpillar were to completely ignore its instinct to retreat inward, to surrender to stillness and never enter the chrysalis phase, would butterflies even exist? Every process requires trust. If the wisest women were here today, they would say: transformation does not happen through conforming. It happens through listening.
Your Activation…
And so, we begin.
We begin by taking a breath.
By closing the eyes.
By observing what arises,
thoughts, images, sensations.
We tune in.
We pay attention.
As the breath deepens, we move beneath the noise of the mind,
into the intelligence of the body,
into the deeper centre where knowing resides.
If we stay long enough, we begin to hear it,
feel it,
recognise it.
A voice that may feel faint, quiet
but it is there.
And as trust builds,
it steadies…
It sharpens.
It becomes instinctive,
longing to be acknowledged.
As we go deeper within,
through layers of ancestral wisdom,
carried and remembered in the body,
a space opens.
And in that space,
we meet ourselves.
And then we ask:
“What does the spirit of your womb want to say?.
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