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, 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 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, Kai Njeri, Life Transitions & Thresholds, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Society & Culture, 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, Anxiety, Attachment, Boundaries, Co-dependency, Fawning, Guilt, Myrthe Glasbergen, People pleasing, Relationships, Self-worth & Identity, Shame, Society & Culture

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, Kai Njeri, Life Transitions & Thresholds, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Society & Culture, Stress and the body, Womb ecology

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 Relational Trauma Is the Biggest Wound of Our Time

Why Relational Trauma Is the Biggest Wound of Our Time

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

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...