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Katie Byron |
Byron Katie has one job: to teach people how to stop suffering. When Katie appears, lives change. As she guides people through her simple yet powerful process of inquiry, called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves—radically shift. Through this process, Katie gives people the tool to set themselves free.
In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year fall into depression, anger, and addiction, Byron Katie woke up one morning and realized that all suffering comes from believing our thoughts. She realized that when she believed her stressful thoughts, she suffered, but that when she questioned them, she didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being.
The Work consists of four simple questions and a turnaround, which is a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. When you Work with a thought, you see around it to the choices beyond suffering. One thought at a time, you transform the way you experience your life.
Katie has been bringing The Work to millions of people around the world for more than twenty years, starting when people in her hometown knocked on her door because they had heard she could help. She has presented The Work in prisons, hospitals, churches, V. A. treatment centers, corporations, universities, and schools. Her free public events, weekend workshops, nine-day School for The Work, and 28-day residential Turnaround House have brought freedom to people all over the world.
Eckhart Tolle says, “Byron Katie’s Work is a great blessing for our planet.” Time magazine calls Katie “a spiritual innovator for the new millennium.”
Byron Katie’s six books include the bestselling Loving What Is, I Need Your Love—Is That True?, and A Thousand Names for Joy. Her newest book, for children, is called Tiger-Tiger, Is It True?
At www.thework.com, you will find Katie’s blog, free materials to download, audio and video clips, a schedule of events, a free helpline with a network of Work facilitators, archived interviews, a press room, the BKI Store, registration and information for the School and Turnaround House, and much more.
Website: www.thework.com