by Myrthe Glasbergen | Aug 30, 2026 | Boundaries, Co-dependency, Emotion Regulation, Emotions, Fawning, Fawning, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of Speaking up, Guilt, Myrthe Glasbergen, People pleasing, Relationships
Reading time: 8 minutes Guilt shows up the moment you start to change. It shows up when you finally set the boundary, when you stop answering every call, when you choose the version of your life that actually feels like yours instead of the one everyone around you has...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Aug 23, 2026 | Fear Of Abandonment, Myrthe Glasbergen, Relational trauma, Relationships
Reading time: 10 minutes Fear of abandonment rarely announces itself as fear. It shows up as the email you rewrite six times before sending, the boundary you almost set and then quietly let go of, the business idea that stays in a notebook instead of becoming a...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Aug 15, 2026 | Emotion Regulation, Emotional healing, Emotions, Myrthe Glasbergen, Relationships, Sexuality, Shame, Stress and the body
Reading time: 8 minutes Alone, you know exactly what to do. Your body finds its way there without effort, without negotiation, without anything standing in between you and what you feel. With a partner, something closes that was open only hours before. You get close...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Jul 10, 2026 | Emotional healing, Emotions, Loneliness, Masculinity & Healing, Myrthe Glasbergen, Patriarchy, Self-worth & Identity, Society & Culture, Trauma-informed healing
Reading time: 7 minutes Are Men Okay? This past week I caught myself asking the question out loud more than once. Are men okay? I mean that seriously, not rhetorically. Toxic male behavior keeps surfacing in the news, in workplaces, in the darkest corners of the...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Jun 29, 2026 | Fawning, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of Speaking up, Myrthe Glasbergen, People pleasing
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 | Anxiety, Attachment, Boundaries, Co-dependency, Coping Mechanisms, Emotions, Fawning, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of failure, Fear of Rejection, Fear of Speaking up, Inner child healing, Loneliness, Myrthe Glasbergen, Nervous system regulation, People pleasing, Perfectionism, Relationships, Stress and the body, The Wound Of Unworthiness, Trauma-informed healing
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, Emotions, Grief, Myrthe Glasbergen, Nervous system regulation, Self-sabotage, Shame, Stress, Stress and the body, Weight Gain, Weight loss
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, Kai Njeri, Life Transitions & Thresholds, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Society & Culture, 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, Anxiety, Attachment, Boundaries, Co-dependency, Fawning, Guilt, Myrthe Glasbergen, People pleasing, Relationships, Self-worth & Identity, Shame, Society & Culture
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 | Anxiety, Boundaries, Fear of Speaking up, Myrthe Glasbergen, People pleasing, Relational trauma, 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...
