Motivating and Inspiring
Following your dreams
Making change happen. [READ MORE]
self esteem
Family & Relationships
Why the most important friendship is with you
Friendships come in many shapes and sizes, are short or long, continuous, start and stop and resume. The most important friendship is the one least acknowledged and often the hardest to achieve and maintain. Why? Important friendships are rare. [READ MORE]
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]
Motivating and Inspiring
Why indecisiveness can be valid and helpful
Indecisiveness or sitting on the fence tends to get a bad press, which is not always deserved. Sometimes indecisiveness is an important part of transitioning and change. Here is why. [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]
Motivating and Inspiring
Why self care is not selfish but essential
Self care is essential for our wellbeing. Yet why can the idea of putting ourselves first fill us with guilt and shame? Why may we struggle with self care and how can we improve things for our self? The [READ MORE]
Motivating and Inspiring
The key to meaningful change and personal growth
“One key to meaningful change” I hear you ask? Many self-help, wellbeing and psychology articles talk about multiple steps towards personal growth. But in my experience there is only one. And it is mostly ignored and undervalued. Let me [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
Changing low self esteem
How can we change low self esteem? Psychotherapist Karin Sieger explains where low self esteem comes from and what we can do about it. [READ MORE]
Working it out
Is generosity a good or a bad idea?
Do you show more generosity to others than to yourself? Our relationship with generosity can be complex and say a lot about us. We might be generous with our time, money, skills, love. Perhaps we give more than we ever get. Rarely does [READ MORE]