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The Summer Ghost: Why You Keep Quitting Therapy Right When It Starts Working
Every year, sometime around late May, my calendar starts to look suspicious. Cancellations. "Hey, can we pause until September?" emails. A particularly creative one last June read: "I think I've graduated from therapy!" Sent from a beach in Tulum, three months into a breakthrough about her relationship with her mother. Reader, she had not graduated. If you've ever ghosted your therapist when the weather turned warm, I want to gently, lovingly, with all the warmth of a sun-dre

Madiha Abbas
3 days ago7 min read
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