Healing the Father Wound: Why You’re Still Looking for His Approval and How to Stop

Healing the Father Wound: Why You’re Still Looking for His Approval and How to Stop

by | Apr 11, 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: 14 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. You find yourself attracted to men who keep you...
The Body Keeps the Birth: An Ecological Understanding of Birth Trauma and Healing

The Body Keeps the Birth: An Ecological Understanding of Birth Trauma and Healing

by | 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...
Why Breaking Free From Patriarchy Feels Like Dying (And Why You Have to do it Anyway)

Why Breaking Free From Patriarchy Feels Like Dying (And Why You Have to do it Anyway)

by | 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...
Emotional Eating: Why Willpower Was Never the Problem

Emotional Eating: Why Willpower Was Never the Problem

by | 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...
Why Can’t I Say No? This Is Why Your Voice Freezes (And How to Free It)

Why Can’t I Say No? This Is Why Your Voice Freezes (And How to Free It)

by | Mar 12, 2026 | Anger, Attachment, Boundaries, Coping Mechanisms, Fawning, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of Speaking up, Guilt, Insecurity, People pleasing, Shame, 🌿 Anxiety, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships

Reading time: 9 minutes If you ever asked yourself: why can’t I say no? You probably had a moment where you wanted to speak up, say something, set a boundary, share a preference, but you just… didn’t. As if something inside you froze. Your throat felt...
Decentering Men: Why Breaking Free from Patriarchy Starts Within

Decentering Men: Why Breaking Free from Patriarchy Starts Within

by | Mar 8, 2026 | Breaking free, Capitalism, Colonialism, Feminism, Intergenerational trauma, Liberation, Patriarchy, Shadow Work, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen

Reading time: 12 minutes Let me be upfront about something: decentering men is not a man-hating concept. It is not about cutting men out of your life, rejecting relationships, or declaring some kind of gender war. I am in relationship with men. I love men. I deeply...
Why Do I Feel Depression During Pregnancy? A Womb Ecology Perspective on Matrescence in a Time of Strain

Why Do I Feel Depression During Pregnancy? A Womb Ecology Perspective on Matrescence in a Time of Strain

by | Feb 22, 2026 | Birth, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Womb ecology, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 21 minutes In this beautiful piece, Kai Njeri writes about depression during pregnancy, and why this is not about a mood disorder, but your body, nervous system, and lineage responding honestly and naturally to everything they’re carrying. ...