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Loving What Is by bestselling author Byron Katie is a simple, straightforward antidote to the suffering we unnecessarily create for ourselves and has inspired and help millions of people transform their pain into freedom. Written in an easy-to-follow, interactive and accessible way and drawing on illustrative case studies, reading this…
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Katie’s central insight is disarmingly simple: it’s not events that cause our suffering—it’s our thoughts.
Epictetus said it two thousand years ago. Katie gave it a method. We spend our lives trying to fix the projection—out there—when the problem is the projector (in here), our story.
Katie’s process—writing down that story, four honest questions, and then turning it around—is so gentle it almost disguises how radical it is. Where other frameworks ask you to face your fears, Katie asks you to question your thoughts. The result is the same: freedom.
She went to sleep one night struggling in a…
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