Here is a typical pattern that emerges in my practice with higher education students: The semester starts out great. The assignments are manageable and, at first, it’s easy to stay on top of them and submit everything on time. But as the semester progresses, deadlines begin to slip. Readings and writing responses pile up. Seemingly all at once, there is a tremendous amount of work to get done in a very short amount of time. The anxious feelings begin and the thoughts that ‘Th

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Picture Rose and Alex. They have been together for ten years. They get along well most of the time, but find that, when they argue, things get intense and heated. They don’t always argue about the same things. Sometimes it’s about whose turn it was to do the laundry; sometimes it’s about Rose wanting to go out and Alex wanting to stay home; sometimes it’s about Alex’s parents making snide remarks about Rose and Alex not jumping in to intervene. But while the content of their