Motivating and Inspiring
Facing loneliness and how to cope
Sundays and Bank Holidays are the hardest [READ MORE]
personal growth
Family & Relationships
Why, when we are adults, our families can still make us feel small.
Adult children can end up feeling very small and young, when family dynamics get in the way. Sometimes we are ready to grow up a little. But how? As adult children we all have our own unique relationship with [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]
Motivating and Inspiring
Your crisis of purpose can bring new opportunities
A crisis of purpose can happen when life does not go our way, and we realise it may never go our way. We may feel stuck with few or no options. But it does not have to be this way. [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]
Coping with cancer
Health anxiety – Why giving false hope is worse than no hope
Health anxiety is normal. Psychotherapist Karin Sieger explains how not to let it get out of control and why giving false hope is not the away forward. [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]
Motivating and Inspiring
Why gratitude helps you find inner peace
Feeling gratitude for the life we have, despite all its darkness, can be difficult to achieve. But if you do, you will feel the healing energy gratitude can have. [READ MORE]
Coping with cancer
Cancer infertility and middle age
Cancer infertility can happen as a side effect of cancer treatment, regardless of your gender. What if cancer infertility happens at a time in our lives, when due to age, we may have already decided not to have any [READ MORE]