by Christine Li | Apr 2, 2014 | All Posts, Feelings
I think it’s interesting when I suggest to a psychotherapy patient that they should consider coming in twice a week for treatment instead of just once, if even for a short time, the answer most inevitably is, “You think I’m really that messed up?” From my...
by Christine Li | Mar 23, 2014 | Academic, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Theories, Thoughts
We all start innocently enough. In childhood, I mean. Then life gets increasingly complicated. Very fast. My understanding of Procrastination includes a recurrent theme I see in my Procrastinating clients. Adult Procrastinators are so often just the adult form of...
by Christine Li | Mar 17, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Social, Techniques, Theories, Thoughts
Many times in my life, I have been nervous or afraid. Many times, these moments have been when I have been unsure of where I stand in a relationship. For instance: I have been afraid to call a psychiatrist, because well, that would mean I would need to say something...
by Christine Li | Mar 4, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Theories, Thoughts
So often making a change involves changing our old equations. By equations I mean the stories we tell ourselves about how we are supposed to do things. For instance, if I am going to feel important, I must be involved in as many activities as I can possibly get...
by Christine Li | Feb 12, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Techniques, Theories
I’ve spent a good deal of my life struggling with feeling invisible. In different ways. As someone in my earlier days who had more ideas than ways to articulate them. As an ethnic minority unsure of how to represent myself in my community. As someone insecure...
by Christine Li | Feb 5, 2014 | Academic, Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Techniques, Theories
It has struck me lately the irony that procrastinators work too hard. After all, the common perception of procrastinators is we’re not working at all. But that common perception is really only partially true. I think all procrastinators know that. We are...