by Myrthe Glasbergen | May 9, 2026 | Emotional Neglect, Inner child healing, Intergenerational trauma, Myrthe Glasbergen, Relational trauma, The Mother Wound, The Wound Of Unworthiness, Trauma
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, Myrthe Glasbergen, People pleasing, 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, Kai Njeri, Life Transitions & Thresholds, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Stress and the body, Womb ecology
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, Myrthe Glasbergen, Patriarchy, People pleasing, Relationships, Self-love, Self-worth & Identity, The Male Gaze, The Mother Wound
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, Myrthe Glasbergen, Patriarchy, Perfectionism, Powerlessness, Relationships, The Father Wound, Trauma
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, Kai Njeri, Life Transitions & Thresholds, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Society & Culture, Stress and the body, Womb ecology
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 Spela Vehar | Mar 27, 2026 | Anger, Depression, emotional eating, Emotional healing, Emotions, Grief, Stress and the body, Weight Gain, Weight loss, 💎 Spela Vehar
Reading time: 7 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...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Mar 19, 2026 | Capitalism, Colonialism, Feminism, Myrthe Glasbergen, Patriarchy, The Male Gaze
Reading time: 11 minutes From a very young age, women are conditioned to orient themselves around male approval: the male gaze. Long before conscious choice is possible, girls learn that safety, belonging, and worth are tied to being liked, desired, and accepted by...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Mar 12, 2026 | Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Boundaries, Coping Mechanisms, Emotions, Fawning, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of Speaking up, Guilt, Insecurity, Myrthe Glasbergen, People pleasing, Relationships, Shame
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...
by Myrthe Glasbergen | Mar 8, 2026 | Breaking free, Capitalism, Colonialism, Feminism, Intergenerational trauma, Liberation, Myrthe Glasbergen, Patriarchy, Self-worth & Identity, Shadow Work
Reading time: 12 minutes Decentering men means taking yourself back. It is the end of the unconscious arrangement in which male approval, male desire, and male-defined systems get to be the organizing center of your life. It is not a man-hating concept. It is not...
