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...
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...