by Wilrieke | Oct 14, 2021 | Courage & Fear, Dealing with Trauma, Sexuality, Spirituality
I’m done. I’m done with my friends apologizing for their bellies. Done with loved ones finding clothes that ‘flatter’ their tummies. I am done with women’s magazines telling us how to get a flat belly. How to lose the love handles and get...
by Wilrieke | May 28, 2021 | Courage & Fear, Dealing with Trauma, Emotions & Insecurity, Spirituality
Sometimes it feels to me that all the offers of self-help books, transformational workshops, and life-changing life coaches want to promise us exactly that: life is an experience of an ever-increasing ride of growth and joy, while all excess trauma, negative beliefs,...
by Wilrieke | Apr 22, 2021 | Emotions & Insecurity, Gender & being queer, Nervous System and Trauma, Relationships, Spirituality
With this pledge, I actively distantiate myself from racism, discrimination, fascism, ableism, any form of shaming (including immunoshaming and fat-shaming), homophobia, climate denial, anti-vaxx, and the denial of science when it comes to a pandemic. I welcome...
by Wilrieke | Apr 9, 2021 | Relationships, Spirituality
Spiritual people from all over the world claim we are in a frequency shift that will change the world forever. Quite a few have even built commercial products around this concept. I remember reading that (some people in) each generation believes they are the ones the...
by Wilrieke | Mar 21, 2021 | Courage & Fear, Spirituality
When I raise my voiceSome say I’m too loudSome say they’re disappointed That the things I say areViolentIntolerant I am very tolerantJust not towards intolerance.I am very patientJust not with ignorance. My voice is one that has been silenced for too longAnd I won’t...
by Wilrieke | Mar 8, 2021 | Courage & Fear, Emotions & Insecurity, Relationships, Sexuality, Spirituality
Health is not just a combination of what you eat, what you think, and how you move. Your health is a communal endeavor. Your food: It’s produced somewhere. By people. Not just the crops or animals you’re eating, but also decennia (or millennia) of...
