The Holy Wound: Finding Wholeness in the Fertility Journey
When you’ve been trying to conceive for months or years, the arrival of your period can feel like a wound that never fully heals. Each cycle brings not just physical bleeding but also emotional bleeding, a grief that can’t always be spoken. For women over 35, this grief can feel especially sharp, laced with urgency, self-doubt, and a relentless inner question: Why is this happening to me? I know this wound intimately. I’ve walked through miscarriage, irregular cycles, and years of trying to trust a body that felt unpredictable, even untrustworthy. At times I believed that my pain was proof that something was broken in me. But over time, I’ve come to see a deeper truth: the wound is not proof of brokenness. It is the very place where life keeps asking me to soften, to listen, and to be remade. In mythic traditions, this is called the sacred wound, the holy affliction that carries within it not only our deepest pain, but also our medicine. The place where we are most tend...