Exploring Deeper
  • Blog
  • About
  • Events
  • Coaching
  • Consent & Power
  • Recommended
Select Page

Licking the Wounds caused by Previous Relationships

by Wilrieke | Dec 3, 2021 | Attachment Dynamics, Dealing with Trauma, Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating, Relationships

When a relationship ends, there’s the possibility to look at it from an increased distance. This distance also makes it possible to see patterns. Recurring challenges that come back throughout different relationships. That’s where I am now, and I’m...

I’m in Love with a Woman

by Wilrieke | Nov 30, 2021 | Attachment Dynamics, Gender & being queer, Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating, Relationships, Sexuality

When I was young I considered myself very much a heterosexual. Being bullied and having a complex youth, I tried not to deviate from the norms as much as I could to make sure I was as invisible as possible. My best friends were my horses, and besides a bit of kissing...

The Plurality of Feelings

by Wilrieke | Oct 14, 2021 | Attachment Dynamics, Courage & Fear, Dealing with Trauma, Emotions & Insecurity, Relationships

Content and sad Overwhelmed and lonely Bored with a long to-do list Grumpy and relaxed Grateful while feeling FOMO We don’t have to choose. We can feel all of those things, and more, all at the same time. And it goes deeper. We have different parts inside us....

Resetting the Nervous System

by Wilrieke | Oct 14, 2021 | Attachment Dynamics, Dealing with Trauma, Nervous System and Trauma, Relationships

Resetting the nervous system. That’s what swimming in cold water feels for me like now. I never liked it. Until the last months. I notice how living in these intense times of constantly being online, a pandemic, climate change, and all the things that come with...

When A Relationship isn’t Working there are Three Options

by Wilrieke | Oct 14, 2021 | Attachment Dynamics, Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating, Relationships, Sexuality

When an employee isn’t in the right job an employer can do three things: fire themcompromise on the quality of the job done (and probably the employee’s wellbeing too)find the employee a better place in the company, where their qualities and those of the...

Trauma Surfacing in Relationships isn’t Necessarily Bad

by Wilrieke | Jun 15, 2021 | Attachment Dynamics, Dealing with Trauma, Emotions & Insecurity, Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating, Relationships

Are you a nerd for self-psychologizing like I am? Reading the books, doing the work and the workshops and, maybe, as we start to understand the dynamics label those around us and ourselves as avoidant, anxious, or narcissistic? Just like I have, you may have listened...
« Older Entries

Intimacy Coach & Educator | International Speaker  & Facilitator | Entrepreneur | Mother of Three

Most Popular

  • When Anxious meets Secure – Attachment Dynamics
  • When Love equals Danger: Healing an Anxious Attachment Patte...
  • About Attracting Unavailable Partners
  • Attachment Dynamics in Crisis Times
  • Licking the Wounds caused by Previous Relationships
  • I’m in Love with a Woman
  • When A Relationship isn’t Working there are Three Opti...
  • The Viking & I: Emotions when Entering a New Relationsh...
  • Changing Attachment Dynamics Can Feel So Wrong
  • The Plurality of Feelings

Newest Posts

  • Why I, as a Facilitator, don’t want People to Simply Copy my Work
  • Happy Pride Month!
  • The Undirected Responses of Our Body to People We Don’t Trust
  • HPV awareness
  • What I don’t like about Tantra

Buy me coffee/dinner

Do you enjoy this site's free content and do you want to support me creating more? Please consider making a donation.

Categories

  • Attachment Dynamics (17)
  • Call-Out (1)
  • Courage & Fear (228)
  • Dealing with Trauma (10)
  • Debunking Lovesongs (10)
  • Emotions & Insecurity (272)
  • Gender & being queer (10)
  • Kink & BDSM (16)
  • Nervous System and Trauma (5)
  • Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating (107)
  • Parenting (19)
  • Plant medicine (10)
  • Poetry (23)
  • Relationships (173)
  • Sexuality (77)
  • Spirituality (59)
  • Tantra (19)
  • Uncategorized (7)

© 2011- 2022 Exploring Deeper | Feedback & Accountability | Contact | Disclaimer | Privacy statement | Terms and Conditions  | Ethics

RSS
Follow by Email
Facebook
Facebook
fb-share-icon
Twitter
Visit Us
Follow Me
Tweet
YouTube
YouTube
Instagram