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AT HOME with Byron Katie • The Work of Byron Katie® Podcast

#205: My Teenage Daughter Left Me • The Work of Byron Katie®

AT HOME with Byron Katie • The Work of Byron Katie® Podcast

Byron Katie International, Inc.

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9870 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

My guest is Smadar, whose 13-year-old daughter has chosen to live with Smadar’s ex-husband instead of with her. Smadar thinks that her daughter is distant, unavailable, and doesn’t really love her. Join Smadar and me as we do this mother-daughter Work.

 
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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Welcome to the work. Welcome to self-inquiry. My guest today is Smadar. She's doing the work on her daughter, and Smadar and her husband are separated or divorced. Either way, living in two separate homes. And

0:22.8

Smadar's daughter is living with her father. Join us as Smadar does what is really difficult

0:31.7

to do and that is to look to one's own self. So join us and let's just see where it takes us and it's a goody.

0:41.2

I'm glad you're here. Let's do the work with Smedar and her daughter in the car on the way to school.

0:51.6

Hello, tears. Hello, hello, hello. My goodness, it's like hello is such a greeting, but why does it start with H-E-L-L? Hell! Oh, why didn't they add an H? We could express ourselves. Hell! Anyway, just, just, oh my goodness oh hello oh you know hell is a state of mind

1:18.6

and I don't think there are any of us here that don't understand what I'm talking about right now

1:25.0

yeah good times bad times you know what I love I'm talking about right now. Yeah.

1:29.2

Good times.

1:30.9

Bad times.

1:33.2

You know what I love about bad times?

1:41.6

That we have something that we can do about it.

1:43.0

We can look more closely.

1:48.6

We can look more closely rather than answers only from the outside.

2:03.6

That's valuable. But to go inside, to go inside for the answers, tapping into that wisdom that is immovable inside of you. I love that. Those of you knew to the work, what we do together here in this community

2:08.6

is we identify the cause of all of our fear, all of our suffering.

2:13.6

We identify the cause of what we're thinking and believing.

2:18.9

We move that from our head, the problem from our head to paper.

2:24.9

And we question it.

2:27.9

I'm so happy to see you dears today.

2:31.9

But that's just enough about me. Spadar, honey, worksheet. Yes. Thank you.

2:41.5

So what is the situation and what did you write on number one? Those of you knew to the work,

2:47.7

number one is one of six questions on what I call the Judge and neighbor worksheet.

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