About emotional healing.
About Therapy
Angry with your therapist? Why it might be helpful.
Are you angry with your therapist? Psychotherapist Karin Sieger explores the reasons, shares her own experience and suggestions of what to do. [READ MORE]
healing
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]
Motivating and Inspiring
Why a health scare can be life affirming and make us strong
Fear, uncertainty, relief, reprieve and human resilience – these are all part of going through a health scare. And regardless of the outcome, such scares can become personal milestones, we want to mark and celebrate. But how? [READ MORE]
Working it out
The moment that taught me not to fear depression
Depression is not a sign of weakness or failure. It is human, and under certain conditions can happen to us all. It can be mild or severe. It can change, come and go. We may feel afraid and ashamed. One event taught me how not to fear depression. [READ MORE]
About Therapy
Why CBT alone does not help in a crisis.
CBT (or cognitive behavioural therapy) did not help me in a crisis. While it is a valid type of therapy and counselling, which at times I integrate into my own work as a therapist, it did not help me [READ MORE]
Motivating and Inspiring
Find strength in our shared humanity: the example of David Bowie, you and I
You and I, we are part of a shared humanity. And there is so much we can give to each other, from near or afar, like a hope, purpose, a sense of self – even in the face of [READ MORE]
Motivating and Inspiring
Emotional bubbles – do you know yours?
What are emotional bubbles? Psychotherapist Karin Sieger explains why some emotional bubbles are helpful and others less so. [READ MORE]
Working it out
How to achieve inner balance and harmony
Inner balance can be a mystery. We all need it. And we all want it. Yet, often we think it is beyond our reach. 1. What is inner balance? Often we can tell, when we have not got it. When [READ MORE]
Coping with anxiety
How to cope with panic attacks
We all have the ability to develop panic attacks. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is normal and can happen under certain conditions, when we are overwhelmed by fear. What to do? [READ MORE]
Coping with anxiety
How to cope with nightmares
How to cope with nightmares? Befriend them and take charge. Nightmares have a story to tell. Fear can distract us from hearing the message. We all have them. Nightmares can leave us frightened and disturbed, sweating and out of [READ MORE]