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...
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. ...
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...