by Christine Li | Apr 16, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Thoughts
Use Your Guilt Productively. Sounds like kind of a nutty blog post title to me. I feel guilty about that, but I will get over that and try to write. As a psychologist and a person with a guilt-checkered past, I am amazed at the types of guilt I see in myself and...
by Christine Li | Apr 11, 2014 | Actions, All Posts, Feelings, Resistance, Social, Theories, Thoughts
When we look outside of ourselves for confirmation of what we feel and do, we complicate matters a lot. We turn from knowing what we feel and do, to looking in other directions, away from ourselves. At times, we can look everywhere and anywhere else for any sign...
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 27, 2014 | All Posts, Resistance, Thoughts
I am writing this post because of a few recent minor events which happened to me and to my blogging efforts. One thing that happened was one of my older posts was re-sent to subscribers to this blog. So readers received the same thing twice. The next thing that...