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Too Much To Do: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique

by Christine Li | Dec 22, 2013 | Academic, Actions, All Posts, Techniques

When I help students figure out how to get through a week or two of multiple assignments for different classes, I teach them my version of the Foot-in-the-Door technique.  I learned the technique when I was in my Social Psychology class in graduate school.  The idea,...

Tips for Success in College (and Beyond): Volume I

by Christine Li | Dec 16, 2013 | Academic, Actions, All Posts, Techniques

The majority of my patients are college students, and working with this group of people is a great privilege.  I get to watch people grow in leaps and bounds and rework and refine their personal styles of interacting with the world as they go.  I have found that...

Undoing Control

by Christine Li | Dec 10, 2013 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Theories, Thoughts

We don’t really ever have as much control as we’d like or as much as we think we need.  We spend a lot of time and energy trying to forget that.  We try to permify the present by compiling mementos, snapping pictures, filing things, writing in journals,...

Techniques to Try: Use the Emergent Task Planner

by Christine Li | Dec 5, 2013 | All Posts, Resources, Techniques

It is amazing what a single sheet of paper can do. When I tell my patients to download the free version of the Emergent Task Planner, many don’t bother, thinking, perhaps that this is just another task to fall behind on or to forget. Those who listen and use the...

The Importance of Having Patience for Yourself

by Christine Li | Dec 3, 2013 | All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Theories

Patience. Not my middle name. If it were my middle name, I would have been named incorrectly. Although I was not given the benefit of patience for myself by birth, I think I have learned a good deal about the process of developing patience as an adult. In my own...
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