It’s about listening without judgment, offering empathy, and helping mothers reconnect with themselves.

your body is on your side.Your period isn’t punishment. It’s communication.When you listen, you’ll find your body isn’t broken — it’s brilliant.

when we try to unlearn, we often fight our old selves. Healing doesn’t happen through war. It happens through acceptance.

Monogamy is actually quite new. For most of human history, we lived in small tribes without emotional or sexual exclusivity.

Growing up mixed, I often navigated a world that demanded I define myself in halves—half this, half that—without truly understanding the history or weight behind those words. From experiencing fetishization and stereotypes in Europe to reflecting on colonial roots of terms like 'half-caste,' this piece explores the complexities of mixed identity, the challenges of belonging, and the importance of honest conversations about race, heritage, and self-definition.

Ancestral healing isn’t about ready-made answers, but about rediscovering connection and meaning. What lives on in you from those who came before? Their stories, visible or hidden, can guide you — not with certainty, but with feelings, whispers, and rituals that bring you closer to yourself.

What began as an innocent teenage love story eventually turned into a journey of cultural negotiation—between my partner and my family, between the Dutch and Indonesian ways of loving, and most importantly, between who I was raised to be and who I was becoming.

Losing it meant losing a piece of myself, and the shame that followed was overwhelming. I felt my body had betrayed me—rejecting the very part that symbolized who I thought I was.

I thought I was just the “lucky” girl who barely got her period. Once a year? Cool, no cramps, no mess, no stress. Right? Wrong.