What if a diagnosis was not a sentence to be carried out, but an invitation to come home to the most fractured parts of yourself?

When Claire Hickson was advised to have a hysterectomy for a large uterine fibroid, she heard a different call—one that led her not into an operating room, but into the deepest chambers of her own story.

In this deeply moving episode, we explore how a physical symptom in the womb can be the body’s sacred attempt to house a lost inner child, and how the journey to heal is ultimately a journey to reclaim, love, and rebirth the self.

Claire Hickson is a yoga teacher, poet, and guide from the UK, who shares her multi-layered journey with a 10cm uterine fibroid.

We traverse her path from medical diagnosis and the conventional push for a hysterectomy to the intuitive breadcrumbs that led her to holistic treatments, a profound creative awakening through poetry, and the pivotal body psychotherapy session that revealed the fibroid as a manifestation of a newborn trauma.

Together, we examine the deep connection between the throat and the womb, how illness can awaken a medicinal voice, and what it means to become a “safe sanctuary” for yourself and others.

🌿 What You’ll Discover

✨ Why Claire chose to explore the message of her fibroid instead of opting for an immediate hysterectomy.

✨ The pivotal role of community and guided meditation in creating a safe container for deep inner work and creative expression.

✨ How a poetic awakening became the key to unlocking a suppressed voice and healing the throat-womb connection.

✨ The moment in a body psychotherapy training that connected her physical symptoms to a pre-verbal trauma of abandonment.

✨ Why Claire now sees her fibroid as symbolizing being “pregnant with myself” and the profound shift to re-mothering her inner child.

✨ How the journey of healing is non-linear and requires trusting intuitive breadcrumbs, even when they don’t make logical sense.

✨ The transformative power of using your voice—through speech, poetry, and now singing—as a core part of somatic healing.

⏳ Timestamps

01:00 - Welcoming Claire Hickson

02:40 - Claire’s Story: The Uterine Fibroid Diagnosis

06:30 - The Conventional Path: Pressure for a Hysterectomy

10:00 - The Pandemic Pause: Space for Meditation and Inner Seeking

13:00 - The Creative Awakening: An Outpouring of Soulful Poetry

16:00 - Following Intuition into Yoga Teacher Training

19:00 - Choosing HIFU Treatment and Reclaiming Personal Authority

25:00 - The Pivotal Realization: Connecting Fibroids to Newborn Trauma

30:00 - The Practice of Re-mothering and Holding a Young Self

35:00 - The Throat-Womb Connection: Voice as Medicine

45:00 - Claire’s Oracle Poem: “Hey You”

50:00 - The Next Layer: Singing as Somatic Healing

55:00 - Who Has Her Illness Invited Her to Become?

💫 Guest Information & Links

Connect with Claire Hickson:

- Instagram: @claire_inlight

- Website: https://instabook.io/landing/yogawithclaire

- Book: In Light - Available on Amazon

- YouTube: www.youtube.com/@claire_hickson

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