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The Truth About Why You Feel Guilty For Choosing Yourself

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...

Fear of Abandonment: This Is Why You Fear Being Alone

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...

The Truth About Why You Can’t Orgasm With A Partner

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...

The Truth About The Male Loneliness Epidemic: Why Men Feel Lonely (It’s Not What You Think)

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...

What Is Fawning? The Survival Strategy That Made You Disappear

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...

How to Heal the Fear of Disappointing Others

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...