Explore my latest blog posts below—practical, therapist-written insights to help you feel calmer, clearer, and more connected in your life and relationships.
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You can feel quite capable in the rest of your life and still find yourself feeling surprisingly small at a family gathering. You may hear yourself explaining a decision you were perfectly comfortable with an hour ago. Or you agree to organize something before you have considered whether you want -
By Dr. Katherine Jewett, PsyD, LMFT | Time to Thrive Therapy You agreed to take a break. Now the agreed time is approaching, and you are unsure how to begin again. Do you apologize first? Ask whether the other person is still upset? Pretend the interruption did not happen? The -
Dr. Katherine Jewett, PsyD, LMFTLicensed Marriage and Family Therapist #100342You can care deeply about what your partner is going through and still feel lonely in your relationship. Perhaps they have been quieter, less affectionate, or too tired to do much together. You want to be understanding, but you also miss -
By Dr. Katherine Jewett, PsyD, LMFT | Time to Thrive Therapy You have tried the advice. You have taken breaks when you could, talked with someone, changed a routine, or read another article. Some things help for a while. The difficulty is still taking up more of your life than -
Sometimes the first sign that you are having a harder time is how much effort ordinary things take. You are still getting to work, answering people, and doing what needs to be done. But by the end of the day, you have very little left. Then someone asks how you -
By Dr. Katherine Jewett, PsyD, LMFT | Time to Thrive Therapy You have stopped working, but the conversation from the afternoon is still happening in your head. Someone at home asks a simple question, and you answer sharply. Or you sit down to eat and discover that you are checking -
By Dr. Katherine Jewett, PsyD, LMFT | Time to Thrive Therapy The evenings arrive earlier, and getting through the day feels harder. Perhaps the walk you usually take has disappeared from your routine, dinner keeps getting later, or you cancel a plan you had been looking forward to because getting -
By Dr. Katherine Jewett, PsyD, LMFT | Time to Thrive Therapy Your friend usually replies quickly. Today, several hours have passed. You look again at the message you sent and wonder whether it sounded demanding. Then you remember a moment from your last conversation. Perhaps that was the problem. By -
By Dr. Katherine Jewett, PsyD, LMFT | Time to Thrive Therapy You have spent half an hour thinking about something important. You have considered what might happen, imagined several conversations, and reviewed what you should have done differently. Yet you are no closer to knowing what to do next. Thinking -
You finally speak up about something you need. You feel proud of an accomplishment. You stop apologizing for having an opinion. Then a familiar worry appears: Am I being selfish? Does this make me narcissistic? How can one tell if behavior is narcissism or self-confidence? If you have spent years
