Byron Kathleen Reid, a businesswoman and mother living in the high
desert of southern California, became severely depressed while in
her 30s. Over a 10-year period her depression deepened, and Katie
spent almost two years seldom able to leave her bed, obsessing over
suicide. Then one morning, from the depths of despair, she
experienced a life-changing realization.
In a flash of insight, Katie saw that our attempt to find happiness
was backward-instead of hopelessly trying to change the world to
match our thoughts about how it should be, we can question these
thoughts and, by meeting reality as it is, experience unimaginable
freedom and joy. As a result, a bedridden, suicidal woman became
filled with love for everything life brings. Katie developed a
simple yet powerful method of inquiry, called The Work, that helped
make this transformation practical.
Since 1986, Katie has introduced The Work to hundreds of thousands
of people in over 30 countries around the world. In addition to
public events, she has introduced The Work to groups in
corporations, universities, schools, churches, prisons, and
hospitals. Katie's joy and humor immediately put people at ease,
and the deep insights and breakthroughs that participants quickly
experience make the events captivating (tissues are always close at
hand).
TIME magazine has profiled Katie, calling her "a visionary for the
new millennium." In March 2002, Harmony Books published Katie's
first book, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your
Life, co-written with renowned author/translator Stephen Mitchell.
Loving What Is has been translated into twenty languages.Katie's
second book, I Need Your Love-Is That True?, was also a bestseller.
"'Byron Katie's work is a great blessing for our planet' Eckhart Tolle"
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