Fibroids and the Hidden Story
Fibroids affect many women, but they affect Black women differently; earlier onset, more aggressive growth, and more frequent complications. By the age of fifty, over 80% of Black women will have fibroids. That’s almost every Black woman you’ll meet!
It’s no wonder so many women feel tired of persistent bloating or as though their womb is working against them. And for those of us who have undergone surgery only to watch fibroids return, the frustration runs deep. Medicine often reduces the problem to hormones or genetics, and while those play a role, they don’t tell the whole story.
Look closer and a different narrative emerges: one shaped by history, chronic stress, environmental exposures, and ancestral survival strategies that have been encoded into the body. These forces interact with biology to create a lived reality most Black women have never been taught to recognise. Healing fibroids, then, requires more than symptom management, it requires tracing the deeper roots and restoring the body’s sense of safety.
What Science Shows
The womb of a Black woman is wired differently, and that wiring affects how her body reacts to hormones.
There are 3 patterns researchers keep finding:
Your body makes more oestrogen locally
There’s a gene that controls an enzyme called aromatase.
Think of aromatase as a tap that pours oestrogen into the womb. In many Black women, this tap runs a little faster.
Your womb is more sensitive to oestrogen
Your womb has “receptors” that pick up oestrogen signals. Black women naturally have more of a certain type: oestrogen receptor alpha (ER-α), so your womb responds to it more strongly.
Fibroid tissue often shows higher ER‑α activity, which makes the womb more sensitive to oestrogen; that heightened sensitivity helps explain earlier onset and faster growth, especially when combined with environmental and ancestral factors.
The womb reacts more strongly to progesterone
Progesterone is usually a soothing hormone, but in fibroids, the receptors can be extra responsive. It’s like the womb reads hormone messages in bold font, even if the message is normal. All of this creates a womb that is more reactive… a bit like a highly tuned instrument. This is why “standard advice” doesn’t always work for Black women. It’s because it doesn’t speak to our unique biology.
Why the Womb Responds This Way (Looking Beyond Biology)
Science can explain what happens. But it rarely explains why it happens so intensely in Black women. To understand that, we have to look at history - at what we as a people have lived through. Because, whether you believe it or not, the womb is much more than just an organ that carries babies. It is a memory keeper.
Your Body Remembers
When African women were taken from their homelands, they were also taken from the land that grounded them, fed them, and connected them to Mother Nature. Nature was a spiritual system, a source of wisdom, a teacher if you will. A really great film to watch to see this connection to nature in action is Avatar.
Unfortunately, that connection was severed. During enslavement, the womb became a site of survival. A place where life was created under pressure, under control and force.
Our ancestors had no option but to learn to adapt, protect each other and to produce even in unsafe conditions.
And when Christianity was enforced, indigenous spiritual systems that honoured the womb were replaced with teachings that often shamed it. Sacred systems and teachings were met with fear and suspicion; intuition replaced with obedience, and feminine energy suppressed.
So, beyond becoming cultural history, these behaviours also became our biological history; etched into our ancestors’ DNA, shaping the very way our genes express themselves today.
So from this standpoint, you could say that hormones don’t just fluctuate; instead they adapt. And the womb doesn’t just function, it also remembers.
When you’re born into a lineage shaped by centuries of fear and survival, your body learns fear and survival too. This is the energetic imprint many Black women carry. We may feel it, yet we have no idea it even exists or if we do, it often goes unnamed.
The Layer Many Doctors Miss
Many women with fibroids are given the same prescription: lose weight, take birth control, have a hysterectomy, or simply come back in six months. But if the womb is responding to deeper wiring, then treating fibroids without addressing the root cause [biological, emotional and ancestral] is like silencing a fire alarm while the fire still burns. The signal (as in fibroids) will return, because your body is still trying to protect you. This is why so many Black women feel unseen, not because their symptoms are too complex, but because the medical system is too narrow in its approach.
The Spiritual Severing
Imagine your womb had a voice and for centuries, that voice wasn’t allowed to speak. Instead, it inherited powerful messages like: “Control your emotions. They will be used against you.” “Don’t be seen. Visibility is dangerous.” “Don’t say anything. Survival depends on silence.” These messages didn’t vanish with time; they were passed down through generations, shaping how your body responds to life, how your hormones react to stress, and how your womb interprets the world around you.
This is what I call a spiritual severing - it’s a deep disconnect from nature, intuition, trust, feminine power, and ancestral wisdom. What I have learned over the last 8 years is that dealing with fibroids isn’t just about balancing oestrogen or managing symptoms. Yes, it helps, but restoring the relationship between your womb and your sense of safety is far more important. It’s about reclaiming the voice that was silenced, and rewriting the messages your body has been forced to carry. It’s about restoring safety in your body, because when your body feels safe, it no longer needs to scream through symptoms.
How Do We Begin Healing
Understand your body’s unique wiring
The biology of fibroids in Black women follows different patterns shaped by ancestry, stress, and survival adaptations. Once you understand that your body isn’t your enemy but a messenger, everything changes and you stop fighting with it and instead, begin working with it.
Lower the noise the womb is reacting to
Reduce the external and internal signals that keep the womb in protection mode. Practical steps include:
Reduce endocrine disruptors (household products, plastics, cosmetics)
Support liver detox (nutrient support, gentle protocols, clinical guidance)
Restore vitamin D (testing and appropriate repletion)
Use foods that reduce aromatase (anti-inflammatory, phytonutrient-rich choices)
Reduce chronic stress (sleep, nervous-system practices)
When your environment changes, your womb will signal that change.
Rebuild the inner conditions of safety
Healing starts when your body can finally let go. Receptors relax when your nervous system feels safe; hormones rebalance when the root-level threat response weakens; your womb can begin repairing when lineage wounds are acknowledged and held. This is the heart and soul of The Ascension Accelerator© - a 6-Week Activation Journey to Reset Your Body, Reclaim Your Power, and Rise Into the Woman Your Life Has Been Asking For. The Womb Codes© (the foundation of the Ascension Code Blueprint) are the instructions your body can learn to follow.
Create a tailored protocol
Black women need bespoke plans that reflect:
their biology;
their ancestry and intergenerational survival patterns;
their lifestyle and daily exposures;
their current stress load;
their emotional history;
their spiritual wiring.
the hidden thoughts, habits and behaviours that trigger deep anxiety
Not just “eat better,” “do yoga,” or “take supplements.” A bespoke protocol mirrors the depth and origins of the condition and supports lasting change.
Science & Spirit Working Together
Science gives clarity and measurable steps. Spirit restores meaning and belonging. Together they create transformation. Your womb is not betraying you… it is however, trying to get your attention. It carries a story much older than you, and it’s waiting for you to rewrite the next chapter.
If you’re a high-achieving woman who recognises your body is speaking and you’re ready to truly heal, comment below: “I’m ready to rewrite my womb code.”
Let’s begin the conversation.
I’m ready to rewrite my womb code. What a beautiful explanation ❤️❤️❤️.