By Jon Terrell, M.A Why People Don’t Attend Emotional Healing Retreats (and My Thoughts on Each) Many people contact me when they’re going through a rough patch — grief, loss, anger, depression, or feeling stuck. But for every five who reach out, only one attends a retreat.Here , in no particular order, are the ten most common reasons people give for not coming — and my honest thoughts on each. 1. “Emotional healing retreats won’t work. Nothing else has.” I get it — skeptici