🔥 Stress and the body Archives

This Is Why Diets Don’t Work For You

by Spela Vehar | Feb 20, 2026 | Anger, Suppressed Emotions, Weight loss, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Spela Vehar, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 12 minutes Perhaps you are wondering how it is possible that you have been trying your whole life to have a normal slim body. Perhaps it is not clear to you how it is possible that you have been fuller than others for as long as you can remember, and yet...

Emotional Eating: This is Why You Eat When You’re Stressed

by Spela Vehar | Feb 18, 2026 | Chronic stress, emotional eating, Weight loss, 💎 Spela Vehar, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 8 minutes There is a general intuitive understanding among people that stress affects eating habits and body image. Many clients admit to me that they gain weight when they are stressed, or that they overeat or starve themselves when they are emotionally...

The Truth About Emotional Healing: Beyond Labels and Fixing Yourself

by Myrthe Glasbergen | Feb 10, 2026 | Emotional healing, The Wound Of Unworthiness, Trauma-informed healing, 🌿 Anxiety, 🌱 Burn-out, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 10 minutes People search for emotional healing when life starts feeling tight, repetitive, and strangely resistant to change. You might understand yourself well. You might know your patterns, your attachment style, your triggers, your story. However, the...

Fear of Disappointing Others: This is Why You Panic

by Myrthe Glasbergen | Feb 8, 2026 | Attachment, Boundaries, Co-dependency, Coping Mechanisms, Fawning, Fear Of Abandonment, Fear of failure, Fear of Rejection, Fear of Speaking up, Inner child healing, Loneliness, Nervous system regulation, People pleasing, Perfectionism, The Wound Of Unworthiness, Trauma-informed healing, 🌿 Anxiety, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 6 minutes You might recognize this. Someone is disappointed in you.They do not shout. They do not reject you outright.Maybe they sigh. Maybe they pull back slightly. Maybe they say they expected something else. And inside, everything happens at once....

Pregnancy Anxiety for No Reason: Held Between What Was and What Is Becoming

by Kai Njeri | Jan 23, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Initiation, Motherhood, Pregnancy, The Mother Wound, Womb ecology, 🌿 Anxiety, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 11 minutes A woman can be pregnant, supported, healthy, and still feel afraid. Her days look fine from the outside. Her scans are normal. Her people are kind. And yet inside her chest something stays slightly tight, slightly alert, as if the world has...

Somatic Trauma Exercises: Completing Unfinished Emotional Energy

by Myrthe Glasbergen | Jan 21, 2026 | Complex Trauma, Nervous system regulation, Relational trauma, Stress, Suppressed Emotions, Trauma, 🧠 Emotions, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 7 minutes Trauma does not live in the mind alone.It lives in the body. Not as a memory you can simply recall or explain, but as sensation. As tension that never fully released. As impulses that were interrupted. As emotions that never had the space,...