by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | Jul 11, 2026 | Attachment, Boundaries, Co-dependency, Emotion Regulation, Fear of Speaking up, Guilt, Guilt, 🌿 Anxiety, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧠 Emotions, 🧡 Relationships
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by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | Jul 10, 2026 | Loneliness, Patriarchy, Shame, Society & Culture, The Father Wound, 🌙 Self-worth & Identity, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen
Reading Time: 6 minutes Are Men Okay? This past week I caught myself asking the question out loud more than once. Are men okay? I mean that seriously, not rhetorically. Toxic male behavior keeps surfacing in the news, in workplaces, in the darkest corners of the...
by Kai Njeri | Jun 7, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Birth trauma, Motherhood, Post-partum, Society & Culture, Womb ecology, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🔥 Stress & The Body
Heal yourself. Anytime, anywhere. The psychologist in your pocket. Welcome (Back) to Beyond Psychology You arrive on this page because you’re either logged out, or aren’t a paid subscriber. Login hereorBecome a member and gain instant access to our...
by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | May 27, 2026 | Anger, Attachment, Boundaries, Co-dependency, Fawning, Fear of rejection, Fear of Speaking up, Guilt, People Pleasing, Shame, Society & Culture, 🌿 Anxiety, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships
Reading Time: 10 minutes Most women who find this article are not looking for a diagnosis. They are looking for a word. They have spent years being the one who smooths things over, who agrees even when they don’t, who reads the room before they read their own...
by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | May 10, 2026 | Boundaries, Complex Trauma, Empowerment, Fear of Speaking up, People Pleasing, 🌿 Anxiety, 🧡 Relationships
Reading Time: 6 minutes There is a specific kind of fear that does not announce itself loudly. It appears in the moment before you say something, in the fraction of a second between having a thought and deciding not to speak it. A need that stays unspoken. An opinion...
by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | May 9, 2026 | Boundaries, Emotional trauma, Empowerment, Healing, Inner child, Relational trauma, Reparenting, Self-acceptance, Self-discovery, Self-love, The Mother Wound, Trauma, 🌘 Depression, 🌿 Anxiety, 🧡 Relationships
Reading Time: 6 minutes The relationship with your mother is the first place where your nervous system learns what it means to be in relationship at all. Long before you can think, speak, or understand your environment, your body is already forming conclusions about...
by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | May 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
Heal yourself. Anytime, anywhere. The psychologist in your pocket. Welcome (Back) to Beyond Psychology You arrive on this page because you’re either logged out, or aren’t a paid subscriber. Login here or Become a member and gain instant access to our...
by Kai Njeri | Apr 28, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Birth trauma, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Womb ecology, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🔥 Stress & The Body
Reading Time: 19 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...
by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | Apr 26, 2026 | Co-dependency, Complex Trauma, Fear of abandonment, Inner child, Patriarchy, People Pleasing, Perfectionism, Relational trauma, Reparenting, Self-acceptance, Self-love, The Father Wound, 🧡 Relationships
Reading Time: 14 minutes You don’t think about him that much. Or maybe you do, but not in the way that seems significant. He’s just your father. He did his best. He provided. He was there, mostly. And still, the father wound leaves its traces everywhere. You work...
by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | Apr 26, 2026 | Attachment, Co-dependency, Fear of abandonment, Fear of rejection, Feminism, Patriarchy, People Pleasing, Relational trauma, Self-love, The Male Gaze, The Mother Wound, 🌙 Self-worth & Identity, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships
Reading Time: 12 minutes Most women already know. They know he is not the right one. They know this is not the life they actually want. Somewhere beneath the performance of contentment, they know they have accepted second best. And they stay anyway. Not because they...
