John Moore

About

Spend years sitting with people and one fact hardens into certainty: the grimmest conclusion a person reaches about themselves is almost always convincing and almost never accurate. The hopeless voice is loud, but it is not honest. So when someone tells me their life has gone joyless and gray, I do not treat it as an overreaction to be argued out of. I treat it as information. We get specific about what quietly leaked the meaning out, what still flickers even faintly, and how to widen those flickers into something that holds real light. My earliest work was on a college counseling staff, sitting with people right at the edge of adulthood as they worked out who they were. That showed me how to hear the story underneath the story. I am thoughtful, patient, and really curious about how you arrived here. If the flatness has worn out its welcome, let me know and we will dig in.