by Wilrieke | Mar 21, 2022 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Gender & being queer
They tell you to love yourself, then they tell you how unhappy they were when they were 30 kilos heavier than they are now and still drank booze. They tell you to embrace your flaws, but then list all the yoga workouts to do that will give you a muscular yet slender...
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....
by Wilrieke | Oct 14, 2021 | Dealing with Trauma, Emotions & Insecurity, Relationships, Sexuality
These are two different ways: 1. Your boundaries can get crossed when you find yourself in a situation when someone (or you yourself) is forcing an experience upon you that you don’t want to have. E.g. your parents force you to eat something you don’t want...
by Wilrieke | Oct 14, 2021 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Gender & being queer
SOME BENEFITS OF BEING QUEERThere’s a lot that can be said about the challenges when identifying as queer. But there are also quite some amazing things that I realized that have changed for me since publicly identifying as queer. Not that I ever wasn’t...
by Wilrieke | Oct 14, 2021 | Dealing with Trauma, Emotions & Insecurity
With modest pride, we present our accountability pod, an autonomous way to be accountable for our actions. We are happy to tell you why we do this, what this is, and what this means for the people who work with us.We, Legien Warsosemito-Schenk, Roos Reijbroek, Tanya...
by Wilrieke | Jul 26, 2021 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Gender & being queer, Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating, Parenting, Relationships, Sexuality
There is this idea about romantic relationships that they either exist or not. In Dutch we say it’s “on” or it is “off”. There may be a “blinker-phase” where the on and off alternate at a pace faster than gossip can catch up...
