Maya Diallo

About

I believe that most of the damage in these periods is done by the story people tell themselves about how they are handling it, rather than by the circumstances themselves. Circumstances are usually survivable. Verdicts about your own adequacy are corrosive. So we work on both. Major life changes deserve practical attention, and they also require someone to interrupt the running commentary that turns a hard month into evidence of a defective character. I will interrupt it. That is a big part of what I am for, and most people cannot manage it for themselves. I came to this work through my own period as a client, when the commentary in my own head was doing far more harm than the situation was. Someone pointed that out and it changed things a lot. If your commentary has turned hostile, get in touch. You are not required to narrate your own difficulty unkindly.