Welcome to my blog. Here I share helpful tips and texts on the topics of mental health and thriving relationships. So get your favourite drink and take a look around.
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mental health
Find strengths, gain energy: A practical guide
Entdecke deine Stärken und manage deine Energie im Alltag. Hier findest du eine praktische Übung [...]
15
Apr
Apr
Mentale Gesundheit Beziehung
What is your window of tolerance?
Das Window of Tolerance ist ein äußerst nützliches Konzept, das hilft, emotionale Regulation zu verstehen [...]
01
Apr
Apr
mental health
4 benefits of Walk and Talk therapy & who it can help
Walk and Talk combines exercise in the great outdoors with therapy or counselling. Find out here [...]
14
Jan
Jan
mental health
Can you learn to enjoy life again?
You can lose your zest for life. Be it as a result of a mental illness, ... [...]
04
Dec
Dec
Relationship
Lonely despite a partner? Ways to more connectedness
Do you feel left alone in your partnership? Often disappointed? As if you were... [...]
20
Nov
Nov
Relationship
Do's & Dont's for successful conflictmanagement in relationships
Find out which 4 behaviours increase the risk of separation during conflict situations and what is often more important than the [...]
23
Oct
Oct
mental health
Enhancing satisfaction in a parenting-stressed relationship
Read here how children or less sweet challenges can stress your relationship and what steps [...].
25
Sep
Sep
Mentale Gesundheit ACT
Feeling feelings - where do you avoid it? Why and for what you should feel them
Feeling feelings plays an important role in psychological counselling processes. You can find out why and what for in today's [...].
18
Sep
Sep
Mentale Gesundheit Beziehung
Strengthening self-esteem: a path to greater self-efficacy
Find out here what steps you can take to strengthen your self-esteem. [...]
21
Aug
Aug
mental health
Improve digital wellbeing: 5 tips for more mindful screen time
Find out here how screen time affects our mental health & how you can use mindfulness to minimise your (digital) [...]
31
Jul
Jul
ACT Beziehung Mentale Gesundheit
Perfectionism & depression: possible connection and how to deal with it better
What is perfectionism, how can it affect your mental health and what you [...]
29
May
May
Beziehung Mentale Gesundheit
Are you a people-pleaser?
Find out what characterises people-pleasers, how you can recognise that you are showing people pleasing to an unhealthy extent [...]
08
May
May
ACT Beziehung Mentale Gesundheit
Assertiveness: what it is and how you can strengthen it
Find out here whether you are assertive, passive or aggressive and which 6 elements you [...]
17
Apr
Apr
ACT Mentale Gesundheit
Perfectionist? A legendary Greek story
Would you describe yourself as a perfectionist, or at least as having a perfectionist tendency? And [...]
03
Apr
Apr
mental health
Alexithymia: problems with feeling
Would you like to show more empathy, but don't really know how? Find out here what [...]
05
Dec
Dec
Beziehung Mentale Gesundheit
Showing empathy: 5 tips to promote your empathy skills
Would you like to show more empathy, but don't really know how? Find out here what [...]
21
Nov
Nov
mental health
Rose-coloured glasses? How your perception influences how you feel
We all have an individual view of the world. And this view influences our psychological [...]
07
Nov
Nov
Relationship
When the relationship is deadlocked - a tip
Are all attempts to be heard by your partner failing? When the relationship is deadlocked, you need [...]
24
Oct
Oct
mental health
A simple miracle tool: writing diary
Writing a diary is good for you - find out more about the different mechanisms and [...]
10
Oct
Oct
mental health
Stress: when is it good for you, when is it bad for you?
Stress can be both beneficial and unhealthy. Find out here when stress becomes harmful and [...]
26
Sep
Sep
Beziehung Mentale Gesundheit
Fight/flight response: What do you do when relationship conflicts escalate?
Everyday situations such as relationship conflicts can trigger a stress reaction. When a conflict with your partner [...]
12
Sep
Sep
ACT Beziehung Mentale Gesundheit
Thoughts, feelings and behaviour in dating situations
Today I would like to use the ABC model to present how thoughts, feelings and behaviour in [...]
29
Aug
Aug
ACT Beziehung Mentale Gesundheit
Setting smart goals: 5 simple steps
There are wishes and goals in your life that have been there for a long time, that you [...]
15
Aug
Aug
Beziehung Mentale Gesundheit
How perfectionism, vulnerability and connection are related
You find it difficult to open up to others and show what you [...]
01
Aug
Aug
ACT Beziehung
Making your own happiness independent of your relationship status?
"I don't want to make my happiness dependent on my relationship status" Versions of this statement I hear [...]
11
Jul
Jul
Mentale Gesundheit ACT
3 reasons why being present pays off
You often feel little connected to your environment, your fellow human beings, and what is going on [...].
27
Jun
Jun
ACT Mentale Gesundheit
Worrying never leads to the goal
We all know it: worrying about everything that might go wrong in the future [...]
13
Jun
Jun
Mentale Gesundheit ACT
Hooked-up by unhelpful thoughts: gain distance
Getting caught up in thoughts is like not being able to see the wood for the trees [...]
16
May
May
ACT Mentale Gesundheit
3 Components of Mental Health according to the Acceptance Commitment Therapy Approach
Maintaining, restoring and achieving mental health should be close to all our hearts. Mental stress [...]
02
May
May
ACT Mentale Gesundheit
Living your values: why it's always worth it
I often write about "value-led actions or goals". But what that actually means and how [...]
18
Apr
Apr