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

Balance is in the Extremes

by Wilrieke | Aug 27, 2019 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating, Parenting

To me, balance isn’t a steady state. Balance rather is the ‘average’ of extremes. Being introvert and extrovert. Being shy and outgoing. Bringing the kids to school, and traveling the world giving kinky workshops. Just to name a few.....

‘Mum, there’s hair under your arm!’

by Wilrieke | Jan 8, 2019 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Parenting, Relationships

My youngest daughter, aged 7, hugged me yesterday and yelled in an amused, surprised way: “Mom, there’s hair under your arm!” And I told her about female bodies, how they grow, develop, change. That it’s absolutely normal that hair grows at...

Don’t Live In a Box

by Wilrieke | May 14, 2018 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating, Parenting

Those days where I feel unhappy, stuck and trapped, I notice I’ve been putting myself in a box again. It’s a thing. A paradoxical thing. Humans like to put their world into boxes. Other humans, their calendar, their work, their relationship, their sexuality, other...

I’m a Wild Mum

by Wilrieke | Apr 9, 2018 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Parenting

I’m not the mum who’s waiting at school every day With tea and biscuits ready And patiently plays with dolls.   I’m not the mum who stopped her career Stopped her own ambitions And started putting everyone else first.   I’m not the...

What I learned in the year after breaking up my long-term relationship

by Wilrieke | Aug 30, 2017 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating, Parenting, Relationships, Sexuality, Spirituality

Once we thought we would stay together for life. And in a way, we will, since we have three daughters. But not in a romantic relationship. About twelve months ago we broke up. It felt like facing my deepest fears. It felt like dying. And maybe I did in a way, as the...

Ending a long-term relationship – 30 days later

by Wilrieke | Oct 19, 2016 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Non Monogamy, Polyamory & Open Relating, Parenting, Relationships, Sexuality

Today it is exactly one month ago that my partner and I decided to break up. We were in a temporary break for two months, after a relationship of almost nine years, including three kids. As the relationship wasn’t serving either of us anymore, we decided to break up....
« Older Entries
Next Entries »

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

Most Popular

  • Eliminating the fear of not being a good parent
  • Introducing New Partners to my Kids – My Controversial...
  • Fluid Relationships
  • Resources for White Folks who want to Educate Themselves on ...
  • On Loving and Feeling Loved
  • ‘Mum, there’s hair under your arm!’
  • I’m a Wild Mum
  • What I learned in the year after breaking up my long-term re...
  • My 10yo Daughter’s Mastery in Self Regulation
  • Don’t Live In a Box

Newest Posts

  • The Solution for All Relationship Challenges
  • For All the Mothers
  • Do you take regular STI tests?
  • Some thoughts on conditioning and fascism in self-love and -acceptance modalities.
  • Harassment by Steve J Burford / Stephen Sharanam / The Lion of Judah / Deborah Summers

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 (2)

© 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