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. | 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...
by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | Apr 2, 2026 | Boundaries, Co-dependency, Fear of abandonment, Fear of Speaking up, Guilt, Hypervigilance, People Pleasing, Perfectionism, Shame, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧡 Relationships
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you have ever said yes when every part of you wanted to say no — if you have smiled through something that hurt, made yourself smaller to keep the peace, or felt a bolt of panic at the thought of disappointing someone — you have experienced...
by Myrthe Glasbergen, Msc. | Mar 21, 2026 | Boundaries, Co-dependency, Fear of abandonment, Fear of Speaking up, People Pleasing, 🌿 Anxiety, 💎 Myrthe Glasbergen, 🧠Emotions, 🧡 Relationships
Reading Time: 8 minutes If you ever asked yourself: why can’t I say no? You probably had a moment where you wanted to speak up, say something, set a boundary, share a preference, but you just… didn’t. As if something inside you froze. Your throat felt...
by Spela Vehar | Feb 28, 2026 | Anger, Emotional eating, Weight Gain, Weight Loss, 💎 Spela Vehar, 🔥 Stress & The Body, 🧠Emotions
Reading Time: 11 minutes Perhaps you are wondering how it is possible that you have been trying your whole life to have a normal slim body. Perhaps it is not clear to you how it is possible that you have been fuller than others for as long as you can remember, and yet...
