The womb serves as a vessel for our ancestral lineage. As babies, we spend nine months in our mothers' womb where we are exposed to the emotional states of our mothers, their nervous systems, and the trauma imprints held in their connective tissues. Our mothers and grandmothers have also sat inside their mother’s womb for nine months, creating a physical line of transmission along the maternal line. Both the pain of trauma and the profound love, power, and gifts of our ancestors can be passed from one generation of women to the next. Trauma along the maternal line might include experiences such as sexual abuse, pregnancy and infant loss, childbirth trauma, economic or political instability, and poverty. The imprints from these traumas can affect our sense of safety and create recurring patterns in ourselves and our lives that keep repeating until we can bring healing into them.