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Welcome to my blog! I love writing about my work, sharing insights and tips from my online counselling work as well as writing about the reality of digital nomad life.
Online Counselling
6 Tips for good Sleep
I recently wrote about how important sleep is for your immune system, long term health, mood, work performance and a whole host of other things. I also shared some tips on how to ensure a good night’s rest. In this post, I’ll share some additional tips for good sleep....
Choice Points: What they are and how to use them for positive change
Burger or salad? Go for a jog or meet a friend? Get divorced or keep trying with your marriage? Every day we are faced with choices, big and small, that can influence how we feel about ourselves and our lives. In Acceptance Commitment Therapy or ACT, a...
Sleep = Superpower
Want to increase your creativity, social skills, emotional regulation, decision making and productivity? Want to learn quicker, have better physical health and reduce your risk for a bunch of chronic and ageing-related illnesses? If you’re a digital nomad...
Digital Nomads
Mental Health of Digital Nomads & the 7in7 Conference
In October last year I attended a conference (7in7) for the first time since I turned my life 180 degrees and became a digital nomad with an online counselling practice. I also co-presented a workshop there about the mental health of digital nomads. In my former life...
How I as a digital nomad maintain social contacts
As a long-distance traveller and digital nomad, maintaining social contacts can be a challenge. For most people, whether travellers or sedentary, it can be difficult to make new friends. Even before I left Germany completely, it was already the case that I changed my...
The downsides of being a Digital Nomad
I love being a digital nomad (even if I there is lots of weird stuff going on in the world of digital nomads). But the freedom to work from anywhere in the world, and travel whenever you want comes at a price. Which is something that is still not talked enough about,...
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Online Therapists’ Book Club Reading List
I love reading, and I love networking with other online therapists from all over the world. What better way to combine those things than to create an online therapists book club? For over a year now, we have been meeting every month for a 90-minute group call to...
How vulnerability will help you live a meaningful life
Who hasn't seen this TedTalk? Or heard about Brené Brown? If you are one of the lucky few discovering Brené and her work for the first time today, lucky you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o If you have been a long-time fan or feel like it might be time for...
Packing my backpack as an online psychologist
My recent blog post about minimalism from the point of view of a digital nomad and online psychologist prompted a number of questions. Today I’d like to try to answer two of them. 1. What do you own as a digital nomad and what do you pack in your backpack as...
Sexual issues are a common topic in online counselling
Did you know that? Well, it does make sense, doesn't it? Sexuality is an important topic for most people but at the same time, we haven't really learned how to talk about it very well (or at all), especially when it's not going as well as we would like it to. Sexual...
How to avoid burnout as a digital nomad
“I don’t know how you do it. I just spent 2 months travelling and working and I am exhausted” said my friend Vivian recently. She isn’t the first to ask me how I do it and I am sure she won't be the last. While many people seem to envy the freedom of my digital nomad...
Third Culture Kids and Cross-Cultural Kids: Who are they?
If you have been following my journey here on my blog or on Facebook or Instagram, you probably know that I work, live and dream in multiple languages. I don't have a home, I travel the world as a modern-day nomad, changing city, country and culture every few weeks or...