Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers. We're on a mission to

inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together. This is the Commune

podcast, where each week we explore these ideas and practices that help us live this healthy,

connected, and purpose-filled life. You can check out all of our courses, our community,

and everything we do at Onecommun.com. In 1986, Byron Katie had an epiphany. She was in a

counseling facility dealing with addiction to alcohol and codeine. She was agoraphobic. Her

self-esteem was so low that she didn't even think she

deserved to sleep in a bed. And one morning, there she was, a sleep on the floor when a cockroach

climbed over her ankle. She awoke, and in that brief moment, she saw how the universe was created,

the source of all suffering, and the way out.

She codified this vision into a method of inquiry called The Work, which has helped

hundreds of thousands of people overcome trauma and pain. The work is centered around four

essential questions. These questions are facilitated by a mentor or Katie herself upon a willing student.

The questions are, one, is it true? Two, can you absolutely know that it's true?

Three, how do you react? What happens when you believe that thought? And four, who would you be

without the thought? These four questions

are followed by turning around the thought to experience the opposite of it. In considering how to

display the power of this method, I decided the best way would be to do the work with Katie,

live on tape. To say that this episode is vulnerable as an understatement,

we delve into the most traumatic areas of my life, my parents' divorce and my relationship

with my mother. And while doing the work has impacted me deeply, I hope you also can see

some of your story in mind and that it helps you process your pain

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