Christmas cards are in the mail and a new year is around the corner. The timing is prime for personal reflection or the annual “year in review.” Even social media is in on the phenomena with links to viral family Christmas videos and comprehensive lists of your most important posts.

If you value progress and growth, taking stock of where you’ve been and where you hope to go can be really helpful. I’m not talking about how you measure up against others, but how you measure up against YOURSELF — your own hopes and dreams for where you’d be at this point in your life.

Find out how psychotherapy can help you do that in my latest blog post on goodtherapy.org:

The ‘Year in Review’ and Why It Matters