Why Do I Feel Depression During Pregnancy? A Womb Ecology Perspective on Matrescence in a Time of Strain

Why Do I Feel Depression During Pregnancy? A Womb Ecology Perspective on Matrescence in a Time of Strain

by | Feb 22, 2026 | Birth, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Womb ecology, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 21 minutes In this beautiful piece, Kai Njeri writes about depression during pregnancy, and why this is not about a mood disorder, but your body, nervous system, and lineage responding honestly and naturally to everything they’re carrying. ...
The Truth About Emotional Healing: Beyond Labels and Fixing Yourself

The Truth About Emotional Healing: Beyond Labels and Fixing Yourself

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

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

by | 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

Somatic Trauma Exercises: Completing Unfinished Emotional Energy

by | 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,...