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The blog for life

The GottErfahren blog is a place for hope, guidance and new perspectives. Here you’ll find helpful insights into life crises, questions of faith and emotional challenges. We write about topics such as loneliness, conflict, grief, violence, hope and the search for meaning. Our posts aim to offer encouragement, provide guidance and show that no one has to face their worries alone.

Suicidal thoughts – a sign of a mental health crisis

Suicidal thoughts can be overwhelming. Find out why talking to someone, receiving pastoral care and seeking professional help are important first steps towards overcoming a crisis.

Coping with a life crisis – First aid

When you don’t know what to do next. Find out what first steps can help you through a life crisis and how pastoral care can offer new perspectives.

Making use of Christian pastoral care even without faith

Do you have to be a believer to access Christian pastoral care? Find out why even those who have doubts and non-believers can receive support.

Support after a break-up – overcoming the pain

Find out how to cope with pain and loneliness after a break-up. Find support and guidance through conversation, pastoral care and renewed hope!

Pastoral Care Helpline – first aid for the soul

What can you expect when you call the free counselling helpline? A genuine insight into empathetic listening, trust and first aid for the soul.

Trust & Love versus Fear of the Future

Fear of the future often creeps into our lives uninvited. Trust, love and forgiveness can, through faith, conversation and hope, give us new inner strength and dispel our fears.

Faith and Life Counselling

When life is searching for answers: how faith and life counselling can help you find hope, confidence in the face of doubt, spiritual support and a new sense of direction.

Recognising addiction and emotional dependence

A sensitive guide to the underlying causes, letting go, support and pastoral care for those struggling with addiction and emotional dependencies.

Lifestyle & Health: When food becomes a form of inner expression

Eating disorders can stem from a desire for control, good health or recognition. This article encourages people to take their inner distress seriously and seek help.

Experiences of violence and abuse: When the soul no longer knows a safe place

Violence and abuse leave deep scars. This article encourages people to break through the barriers of shame and silence and to seek pastoral support.

Bullying in the workplace: When external pressure shifts to the workplace

Bullying in the workplace can severely damage a person’s self-esteem. This article explains how those affected can find inner clarity and seek pastoral support.

Unwanted pregnancy: guilt, shame and pastoral help

Unintentionally pregnant? If guilt, shame and fear are overwhelming, a counselling session can help you to organise your thoughts and find new hope.

Conflicts in relationships

Conflicts in relationships can put a strain on partnerships, marriages, families and friendships. Find out how counselling sessions can help bring clarity.

Life crises, loneliness & grief: When life becomes difficult

Life crises, loneliness, grief and existential worries can be a heavy burden. Find out how a conversation can provide support and give new hope.

Questions of meaning & faith: When doubt becomes prayer

Questions of meaning, faith, doubt and prayer are part of life. Find out how counselling on the phone can help you to organise your thoughts and find new hope.

Can I call you if I have any minor concerns?

Can I also use the counselling telephone for minor concerns? Yes. Find out when you can call and why every worry is taken seriously by the telephone counselling service.

I have no one to talk to - Anonymous help

Do you feel alone and have no one to talk to? The counselling hotline offers you anonymous help. Speak or write now free of charge and find support.

I feel alone - what can I do?

Feeling alone and don't know what to do? Find out what you can do now. Anonymous help via telephone counselling, helpline & chat - always there for you.

Pastoral care telephone number

Thoughts and fears often remain hidden. At some point, however, the inner pressure becomes so great that the desire to talk to someone about it arises. This is exactly when many people start looking for counselling.

Emergency counselling - when suddenly everything is different

There are moments in life that can change everything. A phone call that comes unexpectedly. A message that pulls the rug from under your feet. An event that nobody is prepared for.

Worry phone for problems

Although we live in a time when communication is easier than ever, many people feel isolated inside. There are various reasons for this. Some are afraid of being misunderstood by others. Others...

When life becomes too difficult - help from the telephone counselling service

There are times in life when worries, problems or stressful situations feel like a heavy burden. Maybe your thoughts are constantly going round in circles, maybe you feel lonely or overwhelmed.

Is a counselling chat really anonymous?

Thoughts, worries and feelings are not always easy to express - especially not to people close to you. This is precisely why anonymity is a decisive factor for many people.

Faith as support in times of crisis

Times of crisis are as different as people themselves. A crisis can be caused by drastic events, such as the loss of a loved one, a break-up, health problems or a crisis in the family.

Counselling number - Where can I find help quickly?

Many wait longer than is good for them. They doubt, compare their worries with those of others or tell themselves that it's „not that bad“. But inner stress does not follow an objective scale.

Pastoral care - when is it useful and for whom?

People automatically associate pastoral care with church or religion. However, the term primarily describes counselling in stressful life situations. Whether worries, fears, inner conflicts or difficult decisions...