The Work began on a February morning in 1986, when Byron Katie woke up on the floor of a halfway house, at a complete dead end in her life, and began to laugh. She had woken up without any concept of who, where, or what she was. She awoke to the fundamental, luminous state of being that is without any separation, that experiences itself as pure love. Like great spiritual masters from many traditions, she knew she had reached the end of confusion and suffering. That was the moment she burst into laughter. Determined to give people a way to discover for themselves what she had realized, Katie developed a simple method of self-enquiry that she called The Work, a life-transforming system for discarding the stories we tell ourselves, which are the source of suffering, and replacing them with the truth ("what is") and a life of total joy. She began teaching The Work wherever she was invited - at first in small, informal gatherings and eventually to packed workshops around the world. The Work consists of only four simple questions that you can apply to any problem. It is so easy and practical - but also profound in its application.

Bela has structured this book with the perfect combination of storytelling, honesty, journaling exercises, and support for you on your journey of empowerment. As young girls and women we have a responsibility to lift each other up and become our best selves. It starts with us. Choosing to go on this journey of self-love and to spread to others that they are not alone is what brings us all closer to each other and our dreams.

Discover the truth hiding behind troubling thoughts and become free from suffering with Byron Katie's self-help classic. In 2003, Byron Katie introduced the world to "The Work" with the publication of Loving What Is. The Work is simply a series of four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light. As Katie says, "It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem." Contrary to popular belief, trying to let go of a painful thought never works; instead, once we have done The Work, the thought lets go of us. At that point, we can truly love what is, just as it is. Loving What Is shows readers step by step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for themselves. In this revised edition, readers will enjoy seven new "dialogues," or real examples of Katie doing The Work with people to discover the root cause of their suffering. Readers will see people work their way through a broad range of human problems, learning freedom through the very thoughts that had caused their suffering--thoughts such as "My husband betrayed me" or "My mother doesn't love me enough." To do The Work, readers must ask themselves these four questions about a troubling thought: • Is it true? • Can you absolutely know that it’s true? • How do you react when you think that thought? • Who would you be without that thought? By listening to the answers they find inside themselves, they can open their minds to profound, spacious, and life-transforming insights.

52 of Katies's most insightful and provocative sayings are presented here in a deck of cards

We all have a lot to learn in this upside down world that's presently presenting many facets of trials and demanding endeavors. Economics is driving women and men to be emotional in some form and fashion. Today women and men are faced with many emotional encounters of sadness and madness. This emotional darkness is causing many of us to give little thought to our present issues, and react without thinking of the consequences that are very costly. Marriages and relationships are not lasting like the days of our grandparents, due to many catastrophic environmental and personal changes. Kids are lost because of the parents' issues of emotional stresses and emotional blindness. Parents are stressing and blaming the politicians for playing political games of power. Something has to be done about this topsy-turvy world of chaos! Only a few of us know that order comes out of chaos, but times has shown us that we have gone too far to turn back the stages of destruction! Or can we?

Shares a cornucopia of whimsical relationship advice borrowed from famous literary characters from Dido to Jane Eyre, revealing what their classical foibles, misadventures and eventual triumphs can teach modern-world victims of the dating scene. Co-written by the author of The Naughty Bits. Reprint.

Bestselling author Byron Katie and accomplished, award-winning illustrator Hans Wilhelm team up for a modern retelling of the classic folk tale The Sky Is Falling—reimagined through the lens of Byron Katie's world-famous philosophy for living known as "The Work." Written for adults and children alike, in the form of a full-color, illustrated book, the wisdom contained in this beautiful work can have a profound effect on readers young and old.

‘Very illuminating...on the cutting edge of current biological research’ Jon Kabat-Zinn In A Mind At Home With Itself (her first full-length book since 2007), Byron Katie explains that emotions such as sadness, anger and resentment come from believing our stressful thoughts. When we learn to question the thoughts, they lose their power. And when this happens, our minds are free to turn towards others, and ourselves, with a spirit of generosity. Byron Katie gives approximately 25 hugely popular workshops every year, all over the world. In addition she speaks at such organisations as Facebook and Stanford University and is also involved with a programme for cancer patients. Charismatic and compassionate, there’s good reason why The Times has called her events ‘riveting’, and Time magazine has named her ‘a spiritual innovator for the new millennium.

“A powerful, heartbreaking, necessary masterpiece.”—Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild The moving story of what one woman learned from fostering a newborn—about injustice, about making mistakes, about how to better love and protect people beyond our immediate kin May you always feel at home. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide to adopt via the foster care system. Despite knowing that the system’s goal is the child’s reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question them, evaluate them, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their lives—even if it means most likely having to give the child back. After years of starts and stops, and endless navigation of the complexities and injustices of the foster care system, a phone call finally comes: a three-day-old baby girl named Coco, in immediate need of a foster family. Sarah and Eric bring this newborn stranger home. “You were never ours,” Sarah tells Coco, “yet we belong to each other.” A love letter to Coco and to the countless children like her, Stranger Care chronicles Sarah’s discovery of what it means to mother—in this case, not just a vulnerable infant but the birth mother who loves her, too. Ultimately, Coco’s story reminds us that we depend on family, and that family can take different forms. With prose that Nick Flynn has called “fearless, stirring, rhythmic,” Sentilles lays bare an intimate, powerful story with universal concerns: How can we care for and protect one another? How do we ensure a more hopeful future for life on this planet? And if we’re all related—tree, bird, star, person—how might we better live?