Narrative Psychology Seneca once wrote in his letters that we are tossed between all kinds of wishes and goals. “What is it, Lucillus, that draws us in one direction while we put our endeavors to go the other direction, and that forces us back to the place we want to go away from. What is it that struggles against our self, and does not allow our selves to steer towards what we want.” In current publications and discussions, psychology continues to explore self-management, competencies, professional development. And still the question is a labyrinth. Who is steering, what is to be steered and how does it work? The issue becomes even more complex when one realizes that people are a container full of paradoxes. How can a self as a paradoxical self, steer itself? From a rational view, it is difficult to answer this question. Internal paradoxes are not recognized, or as seen as a disturbance of well-being, or as something that needs to be fixed. In the narrative approach, paradoxes add to deeper insights in the life story. Within this approach, the core is to help the person tell the story, and to (re)construct and make the self-constructions transparent. To accept your history is to accept yourself. To explore connections is to find meaning. To re-interpret your history is to create new perspectives, to release trapped energy and allow it to come to new forms. Seemingly loose experiences become a connected personal identity: meaningful, dynamic, and renewed in potential Being actively engaged in this process strengthens self-management. The narrative approach leaves space for the mysterious --that which is beyond the rational. Self-narrative approach gives recognition to the fact that certainty is a construction by the person, beyond nurture or nature, and thus is an illusion. The person is the author of his or her own life-story. The person constantly constructs with new interpretation, their history and their visualization of the future. Is this rational? When you look carefully, the unpredictable follows a stream of more or less unrecognized motives--- the story behind the story.