At some point in the process, almost everyone asks a version of the same question: why do I feel like I am back where I started? It can be disorienting. You had a good stretch. Things felt lighter, clearer, more manageable. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, an old feeling resurfaces — the same anxiety, the same grief, the same pattern you thought you had already worked through. This is often interpreted as regression. As proof that the progress was not real, or that somethi