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. ...