Working it out
How to turn feeling hopeless into hope
We have the power to disempower hopelessness. Psychotherapist Karin Sieger shares 5 steps to help you turn hopelessness into hope. [READ MORE]
coping strategies
Coping with loss
Coping with loss during festive seasons and holidays
Loss and endings happen all the time. But parting with someone or something during a festive season or holiday can be particularly hard. Because we may feel even more alone. How can we cope with grief during such a time? Coming to an end. Good-bye to [READ MORE]
Motivating and Inspiring
Living in Peace – 7 Key Steps
Living in peace – we all want to, but how? Psychotherapist Karin Sieger explains 7 steps to help you towards living in peace with yourself. [READ MORE]
Motivating and Inspiring
Self care is about weeding our emotions
Self care is like gardening. Our emotional, physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing needs looking after and regular maintenance, just like a garden, a window box or pot plant. How to? [READ MORE]
Working it out
Pull yourself together: When it helps and when it doesn’t
“You have got to pull yourself together”. That was a general comment I made in a conversation a little while ago. I was told, perhaps tongue in cheek, that this doesn’t sound like something a therapist would say. Really? I [READ MORE]
Family & Relationships
Family events – a survival guide
Family events can be fun, sad or difficult. How to prepare for difficult family occasions and avoid conflict? Family events – formal, informal, family celebrations, Bank Holidays, Festive Seasons, religious celebrations, funerals, Sunday lunch, just dropping by – take your pick. [READ MORE]
Working it out
Why not knowing what to say is ok
Not knowing what to say? Why do we tend to turn this into a problem? How about honouring our feeling and realising this does not stop us from being with the other in a way that is helpful and meaningful, for us both? [READ MORE]
Coping with anxiety
10 steps to cope with frightening times
For many of us, these are frightening times. Whoever you are, where ever you live, there will be something of concern to you. Here are 10 steps to help you through. [READ MORE]
Coping with anxiety
Feeling under siege? How to separate reality from fear. And how to cope.
There are times in our lives when we are threatened and attacked. At other times we may feel as if we are threatened and attacked, but it is actually not so. How can such a misperception happen and what can we do about it? [READ MORE]
Working it out
Why putting the pieces back together does not work
Putting the pieces back together after a crisis, that’s what we’d like to do. Psychotherapist Karin Sieger explains why this is a risky strategy. [READ MORE]