The Portal That Called Me In…

An Invitation to Remember, Reclaim, and Rise

This is something I’ve held quietly for a long time.

After my hysterectomy, something in me broke — and began to slowly unravel.

It was tender, disorienting, and deeply vulnerable.

For a time, I didn’t know how to find my way back to myself.

But gradually, through rest, reflection, and reconnecting with my own rhythms, I began to remember…

I was never truly lost.

I was becoming something — and someone — new.

The spark to begin sharing came while following a powerful series on sexual health by Dr Leah Hechtman — a clinician, researcher, author, and educator whose work I deeply respect.

While reading, I noticed a quiet ache rising in me.

Despite the wisdom in her words, I felt… left out.

Not intentionally — but it surfaced the parts of me that still felt separate and unseen.

I reached out to Dr. Leah and gently asked if her series might also include content for women without a womb or a cervix.

She responded with openness and warmth, welcoming the idea and offering to weave this into her work.

In our exchange, she not only shared her own insights,

but invited me to share from my lived, embodied experience — both personally and as a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner — so that she, too, could learn.

Among her words was a phrase that landed deep in my heart:

“You are whole.”

And while everything she shared was deeply generous,

it was those three words that triggered something unexpected in me.

I realised, in that moment, how many places inside myself did not feel whole.

How many pieces still felt broken, separate, unseen.

It was there — in that flash of discomfort and truth — that I understood:

These are the spaces I must meet.

The ones that ache with disbelief.

Because that is where the real medicine lies.

I had been waiting for someone else to include me.

To name me.

To remind me I still belonged.

But the deeper truth was calling:

It was time for me to step into that space myself.

To speak from within it.

To shed light on my own lived experience — and to offer that light to others who might feel the same.

This journey has taught me that womanhood is not defined by anatomy.

It’s sacred and innate — something that lives in the way we feel, love, heal, and hold space for ourselves and each other.

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing from both my lived, embodied experience and the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine,

offering an integrated exploration of the sacred shifts within womanhood —

the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual transformations that arise during this transition.

You are not alone.

You are still a woman.

You are whole.

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