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...
Why Relational Trauma Is the Biggest Wound of Our Time

Why Relational Trauma Is the Biggest Wound of Our Time

by | Jan 22, 2026 | Intergenerational trauma, Relational trauma, Society & Culture, The Wound Of Unworthiness, Trauma, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 🌿 Anxiety, 🌱 Burn-out, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships

Reading time: 8 minutes Relational trauma is not a niche psychological concept, nor is it limited to people who grew up in visibly dysfunctional families. It is one of the most widespread and least recognized forms of trauma in modern society, precisely because it...
Intergenerational Trauma: How Inherited Pain Shapes Your Life

Intergenerational Trauma: How Inherited Pain Shapes Your Life

by | Nov 14, 2025 | Capitalism, Colonialism, Complex Trauma, Depression, Intergenerational trauma, Patriarchy, Relational trauma, Society & Culture, The Father Wound, The Mother Wound, Trauma, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships

Reading time: 10 minutes If there is one thing I have seen over and over again in my work with clients from all over the world, it is this. We all carry the same invisible wound. A deep sense of unworthiness, a quiet shame about who we truly are, and a constant fear...