You’ve followed every fibroid protocol available and still, they’ve returned. Often bigger and badder, and sometimes in a different location. They always come back.
Why?
Because no one is talking about the deeper problems. No one wants to say the uncomfortable thing out loud: that for many so-called ‘Black’ women, fibroids are much more than a medical condition. They are a manifestation of much more than that, and in today’s discussion, I am focusing on just ONE aspect.
These growths and recurring masses are not coincidental, neither are they just the result of poor diet or hormonal imbalances, although these do play a major part. For many of us, fibroids are the result of an unspoken lineage of trauma, passed down to us through our DNA. So yes, you could indeed say they are hereditary. Fibroids are the unhealed grief, unprocessed feelings, and unspoken pain passed down through the maternal line.
Fibroids are the womb’s attempt to speak what the mouth has been conditioned to suppress. They are the body’s way of forcing us to feel what the passing of time learned to bury.
Until we deal with that, no healing will take place.
The Invisible Weight We Carry Around
In her ground-breaking book: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Dr. Joy DeGruy explores the multigenerational psychological impact of slavery on Black people in America. Her research gives language to what many of us already feel but don’t always know how to articulate. Slavery may be over, but the toxic residue remains. It shows up in how we parent, how we protect, how we cope, how we survive and even, how we relate to each other. It lives in our nervous systems, in our stress responses, and yes, in our wombs.
The legacy of slavery didn’t just leave scars, it got encoded into our tissues, which we now carry around without even realising it, and is always activated by modern-day triggers, such as medical neglect to systemic racism. We continue to live in a world that reinforces the message that we don't matter, and the harmful belief that ‘black’ women tolerate pain better, or don’t feel it at all, has deep historical roots, and it was reinforced by both pseudoscience and medical racism. One of the most infamous figures tied to this belief is Dr. J. Marion Sims, known as the "father of modern gynaecology."
His thinking still permeates throughout the medical industry at a cost to us as melanated women.
“A 2016 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that a significant number of white medical students and residents still believed that Black people have thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings.”
The ‘Black’ woman’s body has long been treated as public property, disrespected, and exploited. From the horrors of forced reproduction during slavery to the present-day crisis of maternal mortality, our wombs have been under siege for generations. And while the external control may have shifted forms, the internalised impact has not.
The only way for us to have coped was to disconnect, push through and numb ourselves. Unfortunately, our body does not forget. This invisible pain and scarring manifests itself through clots, cramps, bleeding, bloating, fibroids and other so-called disease states. Essentially, your body is telling you something is up. Your body will always tell the truth. It does not lie.
It's Not Just Biology…
The high rate of fibroids among so-called ‘Black’ women is a clear, traceable outcome of systemic neglect, chronic stress, and unresolved generational trauma, as well as living and eating in a way that is alien to our bodies' biology. Yet, we rarely look beyond the physical when we are thinking about healing.
Fibroids form in the womb, the very centre of creation, life, and legacy. Your womb is where you carry possibility, but it’s also where you carry pain. And when that pain is unprocessed, unspoken, and inherited over generations, your body will find a way to express it. Because that kind of energy doesn’t disappear, it just gets stored in the body.
You are not just carrying your own experiences. You are also carrying your mothers’ unresolved grief, your grandmothers’ silent endurance, and your ancestors’ survival mechanisms. You are carrying years of hypervigilance, swallowing your words and always being “the strong one” in the room.
Fibroids, in many cases, are the result of that accumulated load.
You must stop asking “What did I do wrong?” and start asking “What am I still carrying that was never mine to hold in the first place?”
Fibroids as a Wake-Up Call
By the time fibroids show up it’s often because the mental, emotional and spiritual issues have gone unheard. After researching fibroids for a number of years, I have come to see fibroids as a pattern interrupt. I believe they are a message from the body that says: “This stops here.”
But most of us don’t get the space or the support to interpret that message.
Instead, if we don’t want surgery, we jump on every quick fix we can find to shrink or eliminate them fast. Or, we opt to cut them out or remove the womb altogether. While symptom relief is important, it’s not the same as resolving the problem. Because even when the fibroids go, the conditions that created them remain.
And if nothing changes… they return…again and again.
Fibroids force you to make a decision: either you go deeper and choose to interrupt the cycle of inherited suffering, or you keep, endlessly treating symptoms.
This is why dealing with fibroids isn’t just a physical process. It requires a woman to stop bending to systems, expectations, and identities that keep her small and self-sacrificing.
And that kind of transformation won’t happen inside a prescription pad.
It happens when a woman draws a line in the sand and says, “I’m not repeating this story anymore. Not in my body. Not in my lineage.”
You Were Never Meant to Be on the Bottom
We’ve been conditioned to endure, outwork and over function. We wear resilience like a badge of honour while bleeding in silence.
You believed you were strong, so you kept pushing. You believed that you were built for pain, so you kept absorbing it because you didn’t want to ask for help. You believed you were lucky to have anything at all, so you stopped reaching for everything you truly deserved.
But that narrative is a lie. And your body knows it.
Fibroids are a collective scream. A revolt against the roles we were assigned but never chosen. They’re the womb saying, “No more.”
No more carrying entire family systems on your back.
No more swallowing rage to keep the peace.
No more outsourcing your worth to other people’s approval.
No more living on the bottom rung of a ladder you weren’t meant to be on in the first place.
You were never meant to live in survival mode.
You were designed for expansion and to step into your power. But to reclaim both, you’ll have to break the agreement you made with mediocrity. You’ll have to give up the idea that you can heal without changing how you show up in your life.
That’s the real reason fibroids don’t budge for some women. Not because the information isn’t out there, but because true healing will require you to rise.
This Is the Work
Healing fibroids will take much more than changing your diet, taking herbal remedies or having surgery.
Your body's calling you to heal because it's your calling to step into something bigger.
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