Women are like Russian Nesting Dolls. We are born with all the eggs we will ever have and we run through them during our monthly ovulation cycles until we’re depleted. But, the implications of this are absolutely massive. Assuming you’re a woman, this means that when your grandmother was a baby, she carried the egg that would form your mother within her. And when your grandmother was pregnant, she carried your mom inside her, and your mom in her fetal state, carried the egg that would be fertilized to one day to become you inside her. We, as women, literally carry generations within us.
It’s an absolute miracle but also a deep responsibility because if you have trauma and chronic health problems, those issues affect your genetic expression and pass on to future generations. What’s more, in a sense (and I’m about to get spiritual here and maybe into the realm of quantum physics where everything exists all at once), when you heal, you also heal the inherited trauma of generations of women before you. It’s your responsibility therefore to break the cycles of trauma. It might seem like a heavy responsibility with the burden of generations, but all it takes is healing yourself. Optimism, calm, tranquility also affect your genetic expression and can be passed on.
A study by the National Institute of Health states, “There is now converging evidence supporting the idea that offspring are affected by parental trauma exposures occurring before their birth, and possibly even prior to their conception.” [emphasis added].
We are more interconnected with each other and with the world around us than we can even imagine. Feeling whole within ourselves is unequivocally the best gift for our own families (whether or not we choose to have children) and for our communities. I think this is beautiful and magical.