Talk with Maya Therapy
Maya Attia, LMFT #139693
Online therapy for neurodivergent adults and couples throughout California
Your body doesn't have to be a battlefield.
You've been told to just love yourself harder. It didn't work. Because that was never the problem.
You don't have a self-love deficit. You have shame that someone else installed. Diet culture, the algorithm, the comments you absorbed before you were old enough to question them. You didn't come up with the way you see your body. You were taught it. We don't pile more positivity on top. We go find what was put there and start taking it out.
Body loyalty instead of body love. You don't have to adore your body to stop being at war with it. Loyalty is the realer target. Showing up for your body even on the days you don't like it. That's a peace you can actually reach.
You're ready to
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Loosen the constant body monitoring that's been running in the background for years, so you have your attention and energy back for the rest of your life
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Reclaim your body as a place you live, not a project to fix, an opponent to fight, or a problem to solve
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Build presence during sex, intimacy, and connection so you can actually be in your body instead of watching it from outside
HOW IT WORKS
It's possible to come back to your body instead of living at war with it, without faking a confidence the world told you that you'd have to earn.
We start by sorting out what you were told about your body and identifying the narratives that live rent free in your head.
You leave each session with something real to use before the next one: language for the shame instead of silence, a way to answer the critic without obeying it, a small act of loyalty to your body you can actually try.
Your body was never the problem. You weren't born hating it. That got taught, by a culture that profits every time you believe you're not enough.
What do you actually believe about your body, and what did the world train you to believe? And what has carrying all of it cost you, in time, in confidence, in the things you've talked yourself out of? The dates you skipped. The photos you ducked out of. The years you put your life on hold waiting to feel okay enough.
