The Collective Wound & the Call Forward: How the Burning Times Echo in Women’s Bodies, Voices, and Spiritual Hunger Today
- The Mindful Balance
- Aug 22
- 5 min read
The Great Rebalancing Series: Post 6 Continuing Phase 2: The Great Disruption
The fires of The Burning Times may have gone out centuries ago, but their smoke still lingers in women’s lungs, our bodies, and our voices today.
If the word ‘witch’ still stirs a negative meaning within you, that may be a collective trauma wound in need of ancestral healing. Words were purposely turned on their heads to incite fear instead of power. Even modern spirituality often treats witches as ‘other,’ instead of as another voice in feminine leadership. What words still trigger you? Witch? Hag? Crone? Ask yourself: who put that fear inside of you?
The Echo of the Burning Times
Who felt threatened by women’s voices — and sought to silence them in order to gain power? Why do so many women today still feel afraid to speak out, to speak loudly, to fully show ourselves? Why are the majority of those with chronic illness women? Why are the majority of empaths women? Why has women’s health been impacted so deeply, and why is there still an imbalance in health research and funding directed toward women?
The answers to these questions may differ depending on where you are on the spiral, the conditioning of your society, and the personal trauma you’ve carried in this lifetime.
But they all trace back to the echo. Women were once revered in their communities as healers and leaders — the ones who helped the sick, guided the dying with grace, and tended the mysteries of birth. They held deep knowledge of spirit, herbal lore, and the unseen. And then, they were brutally suppressed in body, voice, and mind.
And yet, women have always found ways to keep speaking — even in whispers. In rural China, women once created a secret script called Nüshu, passed quietly between mothers, daughters, and sisters. It was never meant for men’s eyes. It became a lifeline: letters of sorrow, songs of resilience, prayers stitched into cloth. Nüshu is proof that even when our public voices were silenced, our hidden voices carried on. The echo of The Burning Times is not only an absence — it is also the persistence of women finding ways to speak.
This collective wound is not only history — it is alive in women’s health, in our silenced voices, and in the spiritual hunger we carry today. Yet wounds are also teachers, and within them lives the call forward.
The Call Forward
The wound is not the end of the story — it is the initiation.
Modern women are choosing to answer this call by reclaiming their personal power. They use their voices to speak the uncomfortable truths and to bring healing to themselves and others. When their bodies have had enough of suppression and develop chronic illness, they seek support — and that support becomes a catalyst for change, guided by both Spirit and science.
They share their stories on blogs (like The Mindful Balance Toolkit!), in books, on social media, on stages, and in politics. They find each other in communities, no longer hidden, no longer silenced.
Today, The Call Forward is loud, embodied, and undeniable. As more of us rise to speak, to write, to lead, we are also discovering another layer of truth: that our bodies themselves are part of this rebalancing. The way we believe, the way we carry trauma, the way we heal — all of it reveals the next phase of the story.
From Silence to Voice: Answering the Call Forward
The wound teaches us where the healing must flow. And as we step forward, we discover that our bodies and beliefs are not broken, but powerful.
This is where The Great Rebalancing turns — from history’s echoes into the living truth of today. The next chapter is unfolding now, in our body wisdom, in the way belief shapes biology, and in the shared women’s healing journey we are only beginning to write.
Sources:
Women & Chronic Illness / Autoimmune Diseases
Gender Gaps in Medical Research & Funding
Nüshu
Stephanie Chaisson
My own narrative, channeling, downloads, synchronicities, and insights remain the beating heart of The Great Rebalancing — these sources simply add depth and connect my personal voice to wider cultural and scientific truths.
Up Next: The Great Rebalancing Continues
The next post in this series will begin Phase 3: The Body, Belief, and the Balance of Feminine & Masculine. We’ll explore how sensitivity, chronic illness, and the placebo and nocebo effects reveal that the body listens to the stories we tell it. This is where the Great Rebalancing turns inward: to the biology we inhabit, the beliefs we carry, and the polarities of Feminine and Masculine within us. What happens when women reclaim not only their voices, but also their bodies — remembering that belief shapes biology, that the Feminine holds wisdom, that the Masculine offers structure, and that true healing begins when both are brought back into balance?
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