Resistance Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/resistance/ Interventions & Treatment Consulting Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:04:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://heatherhayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-HH_logo-32x32.png Resistance Archives - Heather Hayes & Associates https://heatherhayes.com/tag/resistance/ 32 32 What’s Actually Happening When Some People Appear “Resistant” to Treatment https://heatherhayes.com/whats-actually-happening-when-some-people-appear-resistant-to-treatment/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://heatherhayes.com/?p=7294 When a loved one seems to fight every suggestion, skip appointments, or sabotage their own progress, it is easy to feel hopeless. Clinicians may label it non‑compliance, and families may call it denial, stubbornness, or lack of willpower, but what looks like resistance from the outside is almost always a complex, protective response on the […]

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