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Quiet
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A Psychologist Lowers the Bar on Perfection and the Life You Expected
§ Bearings lane · Coming February 2027
A Psychologist Lowers the Bar on Perfection and the Life You Expected
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Beth Capecchi has spent twenty-seven years in the therapy room, and the losses that bring people through her door are rarely the ones with a funeral attached. The child who leaves for college. The career that stopped being a dream somewhere along the way. The friendship that thinned. The self you expected to be by now. Quiet Losses names those losses, one territory at a time, and gives the reader permission to mourn them.
It opens where she did, in August 2026, on a dorm-room bed in the hour after her daughter's college move-in. From there it works through the places hidden loss lives: childhood, self-worth, lost hopes, parenting, friendship, romance, the mentor who never came, the life that did not arrive as planned. Running under all of it is the thing she says her clients come to her for, which is lowering the bar and becoming comfortable in your own skin.
For the reader doing too much and grieving things they have not let themselves call losses, it is a psychologist saying, out loud, that the loss was real.
“Lowering the bar for people and helping people become comfortable in their own skin.”
Beth Capecchi, on what she does for a living
Beth Capecchi, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she has worked with adolescents and adults for twenty-seven years on self-esteem, anxiety, depression, family, addiction and relationships. She hosts the mental-health podcast Never Perfect Dr. Beth, now in its sixth year, and its companion, Never Perfect Faith.
She and her husband, Remo, have three young-adult kids. An Enneagram Seven, she is enthusiastic about yoga, antiquing, art, farmers markets, and long conversations with a lot of laughter in them.
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