by Myrthe Glasbergen | Jun 29, 2026 | Fawning, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of Speaking up, People pleasing, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen
Reading time: 5 minutes If you have ever said yes when every part of you wanted to say no, if you have smiled through something that hurt, made yourself smaller to keep the peace, or felt a bolt of panic at the thought of disappointing someone, then you have...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Jun 29, 2026 | Attachment, Boundaries, Co-dependency, Coping Mechanisms, Fawning, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of failure, Fear of Rejection, Fear of Speaking up, Inner child healing, Loneliness, Nervous system regulation, People pleasing, Perfectionism, The Wound Of Unworthiness, Trauma-informed healing, 🌿 Anxiety, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships, 🔥 Stress and the body
Reading time: 9 minutes You probably know the moment. Someone is disappointed in you. They do not shout, and they do not reject you outright. Maybe they sigh. Maybe they pull back slightly. Maybe they simply say they expected something else. And inside, everything...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Jun 27, 2026 | Anger, Disgust, Emotion Regulation, emotional eating, Emotional healing, Grief, Nervous system regulation, Self-sabotage, Shame, Stress, Weight Gain, Weight loss, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🔥 Stress and the body
Reading time: 10 minutes You know the moment, even if you have never named it. The body has had enough, it has already given its quiet signal of fullness, and still you find yourself going back to the kitchen, to the cupboard, to whatever is within reach, eating...
by Kai Njeri | May 29, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Birth Trauma, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Society & Culture, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 Stress and the body
Reading time: 21 minutes Birth is an initiatory threshold. One that can leave a woman shattered and empowered in the same breath, sometimes in the same moment. Few women will have little to say about it. Fewer still will move through it unchanged. It is the place...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | May 27, 2026 | Anger, Attachment, Boundaries, Co-dependency, Fawning, Guilt, People pleasing, Shame, Society & Culture, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 🌿 Anxiety, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships
Reading time: 11 minutes Most women who find this article are not looking for a diagnosis. They are looking for a word. They have spent years being the one who smooths things over, who agrees even when they don’t, who reads the room before they read their own...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | May 10, 2026 | Boundaries, Fear of Speaking up, People pleasing, Relational trauma, 🌿 Anxiety, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships
Reading time: 7 minutes There is a specific kind of fear that does not announce itself loudly. It appears in the moment before you say something, in the fraction of a second between having a thought and deciding not to speak it. A need that stays unspoken. An opinion...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | May 9, 2026 | Emotional Neglect, Inner child healing, Intergenerational trauma, Relational trauma, The Mother Wound, The Wound Of Unworthiness, Trauma, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen
Reading time: 8 minutes The relationship with your mother is the first place where your nervous system learns what it means to be in relationship at all. Long before you can think, speak, or understand your environment, your body is already forming conclusions about...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | May 5, 2026 | Boundaries, Co-dependency, Fawning, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of Rejection, Fear of Speaking up, People pleasing, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships
Reading time: 9 minutes You say yes when every part of you means no. You soften your tone so the other person does not feel uncomfortable. You spend hours after a conversation replaying what you said, wondering if it landed wrong, if you upset someone, if you should...
by Kai Njeri | Apr 28, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Birth Trauma, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Womb ecology, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 Stress and the body
Reading time: 20 minutes You did not expect it to feel like this. You expected the love to arrive the way you had been told it would. Immediate. Overwhelming. A rush of something so complete it would reorganise everything else around it. You had seen it on the faces...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Apr 26, 2026 | Attachment, Co-dependency, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of Rejection, Fear of Speaking up, Patriarchy, People pleasing, Self-love, The Male Gaze, The Mother Wound, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships
Reading time: 13 minutes Most women already know. They know he is not the right one. They know this is not the life they actually want. Somewhere beneath the performance of contentment, they know they have accepted second best. And they stay anyway. Not because they...
