How to Heal the Fear of Disappointing Others

How to Heal the Fear of Disappointing Others

by | Jun 29, 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: 9 minutes You probably know the moment. Someone is disappointed in you. They do not shout, and they do not reject you outright. Maybe they sigh. Maybe they pull back slightly. Maybe they simply say they expected something else. And inside, everything...
The Truth About Emotional Eating: Why You Eat More Than You Need

The Truth About Emotional Eating: Why You Eat More Than You Need

by | Jun 27, 2026 | Anger, Disgust, Emotion Regulation, emotional eating, Emotional healing, Grief, Nervous system regulation, Self-sabotage, Shame, Stress, Weight Gain, Weight loss, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 10 minutes You know the moment, even if you have never named it. The body has had enough, it has already given its quiet signal of fullness, and still you find yourself going back to the kitchen, to the cupboard, to whatever is within reach, eating...
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...
Feeling Disconnected From Your Baby After Birth: What Nobody Tells New Mothers

Feeling Disconnected From Your Baby After Birth: What Nobody Tells New Mothers

by | Apr 28, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Birth Trauma, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Womb ecology, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 20 minutes You did not expect it to feel like this. You expected the love to arrive the way you had been told it would. Immediate. Overwhelming. A rush of something so complete it would reorganise everything else around it. You had seen it on the faces...
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...
Emotional Eating: Why Willpower Was Never the Problem

Emotional Eating: Why Willpower Was Never the Problem

by | Mar 27, 2026 | Anger, Depression, emotional eating, Emotional healing, Grief, Weight Gain, Weight loss, 🧠 Emotions, 💎 Spela Vehar, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 8 minutes Today, many people have already recognized that not all of their eating is the same. There is the kind of eating that comes as the result of a slow but clear signal from the body that energy is decreasing and that the system needs fuel. The...