Breaking the Silence

I have been teaching in the Czech Republic for a week now and between teaching about psychedelics, trauma and menopause. I have been able, along with the help from the class participants, to get a feeling about the underlying stories and wounds the women here are holding from their motherlines.

A large aspect of the menopause work I facilitate is about deprogramming the archaic, often subliminal, limiting beliefs and agendas women have had to live with in patriarchal societies and have passed on conscious or unconsciously through the motherline. Although there are many similarities throughout the modern world, each country has its own stories and particular forms of repression.

I noticed right from arriving here, that the Czech women seemed to be unable or unwilling to access the past. It was as if there was a tight lid on it. Through long days of facilitating, things became a lot clearer. Some of the women even described themselves a feeling of a tight lid keeping any truths from their grandmothers, great-grandmothers and so on buried.

Don’t forget the Czech Republic has had a difficult history when it comes to women. Roma women were targeted during the holocaust and taken ‘en mass’ to the camps. Sexual violence on a massive scale spread through the Czech Republic specifically committed by German soldiers and later during the liberation on a larger scale by Soviet soldiers. The Soviets saw these rapes as a form of psychological warfare. This foundational layer of systematic violence against women has been largely silenced. Women were shamed and their voices repressed by the Nazis during the occupation and after the war during the Communist takeover, any mention of what happened was taboo.

Today, working with women, this silence is still present, not consciously or voluntarily, but I believe through generations of mothers protecting their daughters by teaching them to be silent. It has shocked me to realize how in 2026, this silence is still the ‘norm’. There is a lot of work to do for women to be able not just to voice these stories--that would be easy--but to retrieve them for the secrets of the past.

Working together, we got to the internal programing, which is “women silence themselves before they are silenced.” This was very similar to the programing I received from my motherline, which was “women punished themselves before they were punished.”

I am so grateful to be able to do this work with women in different places of the world. We cannot step into a healthy, whole feminine consciousness (which is so needed) whilst still carrying the programming of generations past.

In deep contrast to this silencing, repression and violence again women was an exhibition going on in a museum here in Brno about the many Venus figurines found here in Moravia. The most famous is known as Venus of Dolní Vasotonic made from clay and powdered bone. She is between 25,000 and 31,000 years old, which makes her the oldest ceramic artifact ever found.

It seems such a paradox between a silenced collective of modern women and these beautiful incredibly ancient female effigies. Even if we can’t know for sure what relationship these ancient people had to the Goddess and women, they indicate at the very least that female imagery held a powerful and recurring symbolic significance in the spiritual or cosmological worldview of the ancient people of Moravia.

To me, they are today a beautiful symbol of the goddess rising. The Nazis and the Soviets may have shamed and silenced Czech women and their violent control may have lasted nearly a hundred years, but a deeply human connection to the great mother and the goddess found in these 25,000-year-old figurines has an energy and symbolism that cannot be broken. The time, I believe has come. Women’s voices are needed. Through healing my own motherline, I feel empowered and supremely grateful that I can help other women heal theirs.