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Emotional Safety In Healing: Why It’s Not Enough

by Myrthe Glasbergen | May 16, 2025 | Anxiety, Breaking free, Emotion Regulation, Emotional maturity, Myrthe Glasbergen, Self-acceptance, Shame

Reading time: 9 minutes Emotional safety has become one of the most frequently named goals in healing spaces. We are encouraged to find safe environments, safe people, safe conversations, safe practices. And for a nervous system that has lived in chronic threat,...

Somatic Healing Tools: The Path Back to Wholeness

by Myrthe Glasbergen | Mar 18, 2025 | Anxiety, Emotion Regulation, Emotional maturity, Emotions, Nervous system regulation, Relational trauma, Stress, Stress and the body, Suppressed Emotions, Survival Mode, Trauma

Reading time: 4 minutes Somatic Healing Tools: Reconnecting with Your Inner Wisdom Somatic healing tools are the bridge between the body and the mind. They help you reconnect with yourself through presence, movement, and awareness. Healing is not only about...

Feeling Like You Don’t Belong Anywhere? Here’s Why

by Myrthe Glasbergen | Jan 2, 2025 | Anxiety, Authenticity, Fear of Rejection, Loneliness, Myrthe Glasbergen, Relationships, Self-acceptance, Self-discovery, Self-love, Self-worth & Identity, Shame, The Wound Of Unworthiness

Reading time: 8 minutes Do you sometimes, or often, feel like you don’t belong anywhere? It doesn’t seem to matter where you are. You might be with friends, with family, at work, in a supermarket, at a festival, in a bar, or simply walking down the street. Still,...

Why You Get Triggered So Easily And How Real Healing Happens

by Myrthe Glasbergen | Apr 19, 2024 | Anxiety, Emotion Regulation, Grief, Myrthe Glasbergen, Shame

Reading time: 6 minutes If you are on a journey of healing, personal growth, or transformation, you may recognize the frustration of understanding yourself deeply while still getting triggered in ways that feel automatic and uncontrollable. You might know where your...

Feeling Powerless? Why Suppressing Your Authentic Self Keeps You Stuck

by Myrthe Glasbergen | Feb 4, 2024 | Anxiety, Learned Helplessness, Myrthe Glasbergen, Powerlessness, Self-discovery, Trauma

Reading time: 6 minutes Feeling powerless in life is often misunderstood as a lack of confidence, motivation, resilience, or strength. You may tell yourself that you are broken, weak, depressed, or incapable of creating change. However, feeling powerless is rarely a...

Survival Mode: Fight-, Flight-, Freeze- or Please Response

by Myrthe Glasbergen | Mar 28, 2023 | Anxiety, Intergenerational trauma, Myrthe Glasbergen, Nervous system regulation, People pleasing, Stress, Survival Mode, Trauma

Reading time: 9 minutes In times of stress, our brains instinctively switch into survival mode, triggering the fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response. Understanding these primal reactions can help us navigate and cope with challenging situations effectively....