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. | 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...
