Feeling Unproductive? It Might Be a Relationship Problem

A therapist explains how we waste energy worrying about people’s reactions

Kathleen Smith
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2 min readJan 27, 2022

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When people feel like they’ve stalled on their goals, they tend to blame it on a couple of things. A lack of willpower. The need for habit formation. Unrealistic societal expectations that lead to burnout.

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Kathleen Smith
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Kathleen Smith is a therapist and author of the books Everything Isn’t Terrible and True to You. She writes about anxiety, relationships, and Bowen theory.