What happens when therapy starts to feel heavy, slow, or discouraging? What if you feel worse before you feel better — or begin to wonder whether it’s working at all?

In this episode, Dr. Yadegarfard explores why therapy often becomes most challenging in the middle of the journey. Drawing on psychological science and clinical practice, this episode explains how increased awareness, emotional processing, identity shifts, and effort fatigue can temporarily reduce motivation — without meaning that therapy is failing.

You’ll learn how to distinguish between productive discomfort and overwhelm, plateau and stuckness, resistance and misalignment. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to reflect on tough phases in therapy without shaming yourself or jumping to conclusions.

This episode is designed for anyone currently in  ...