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...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Apr 26, 2026 | Co-dependency, Complex Trauma, Emotional Neglect, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of Rejection, Insecurity, Intergenerational trauma, Patriarchy, Perfectionism, Powerlessness, The Father Wound, Trauma, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships
Reading time: 15 minutes You don’t think about him that much. Or maybe you do, but not in the way that seems significant. He’s just your father. He did his best. He provided. He was there, mostly. And still, the father wound leaves its traces everywhere....
by Kai Njeri | Apr 10, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Birth Trauma, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Society & Culture, Womb ecology, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 Stress and the body
Reading time: 17 minutes What if birth trauma is about what was left unfinished? In this article Kai Njeri writes about how the body finds its way back to recovery through a womb ecology lens. There is a particular kind of silence that can follow birth, a silence that...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Apr 2, 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 — you have experienced...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Apr 1, 2026 | Authenticity, Becoming, Breaking free, Capitalism, Initiation, Liberation, Patriarchy, Society & Culture, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen
Reading time: 7 minutes To become a sovereign woman and start with breaking free from patriarchy, you have to be willing to say no to systems that keep you small. But that’s not as easy and logical as it sounds. Because you have been brought up into these systems from...
by Spela Vehar | Mar 27, 2026 | Anger, Depression, emotional eating, Emotional healing, Grief, Weight Gain, Weight loss, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Spela Vehar, 🔥 Stress and the body
Reading time: 8 minutes Today, many people have already recognized that not all of their eating is the same. There is the kind of eating that comes as the result of a slow but clear signal from the body that energy is decreasing and that the system needs fuel. The...
