The Truth About Why Women Vote for Right-Wing Populism

The Truth About Why Women Vote for Right-Wing Populism

by | Jul 11, 2026 | Capitalism, Feminism, Leadership, Liberation, Patriarchy, Politics, Populism, Society & Culture, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen

Reading time: 23 minutes Lately I’ve been wondering: why do some women, often highly educated, privileged, and seemingly free, choose to support right-wing, conservative, populist parties? Women who have all the access, opportunity, and security that others still...
The Truth About The Male Loneliness Epidemic: Why Men Feel Lonely (It’s Not What You Think)

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

by | Jul 10, 2026 | Emotional healing, Loneliness, Masculinity & Healing, Patriarchy, Society & Culture, Trauma-informed healing, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen

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 Healing After a Traumatic Birth Actually Looks Like: An Ecological Exploration of Belonging and Return

What Healing After a Traumatic Birth Actually Looks Like: An Ecological Exploration of Belonging and Return

by | May 29, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Birth Trauma, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Society & Culture, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 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...
The Fawn Response: The Survival Strategy Hidden Under Niceness

The Fawn Response: The Survival Strategy Hidden Under Niceness

by | May 27, 2026 | Anger, Attachment, Boundaries, Co-dependency, Fawning, Guilt, People pleasing, Shame, Society & Culture, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 🌿 Anxiety, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships

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...
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...
This Is Why Independence Feels So Scary (The Real Reason)

This Is Why Independence Feels So Scary (The Real Reason)

by | Apr 1, 2026 | Authenticity, Becoming, Breaking free, Capitalism, Initiation, Liberation, Patriarchy, Society & Culture, ⭐️ Self-worth & Identity, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen

Reading time: 8 minutes To become an independent woman, liberated from the systems, relationships, and conditioning that kept her small, you have to be willing to say no to those systems. And if you have ever wondered why independence feels so scary, even when you...