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

#130: My Dad Drinks Too Much • 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

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mariana, visiting her parents, sees her father drinking too much and wants him to stop. Do you or does someone in your family struggle with addiction? Welcome to self-inquiry. Welcome to The Work of Byron Katie®.
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0:17.6

Hello everyone and welcome to the work. My guest today is Mariana and her father is to her mind an alcoholic. He drinks too much. She sees him as loud, short-sighted, unmindful, and addicted.

0:23.4

Does this remind you of anyone in your family?

0:26.5

Whether it does or or not, welcome to the work.

0:32.4

Mariana, you have a judge-your- judge your neighbor worksheet?

0:35.0

Hi yes I do.

0:38.0

Hi, hi sweet so on what did you feel in for number one?

0:44.0

I said I am frustrated with my dad because he drinks too much.

0:48.6

Okay, now those are new to the work today, the worksheet that we're talking about has six questions on it.

0:55.6

And Mariana has just answered number one. I'm frustrated with my dad because he drinks too much. Okay, so now we're going to question that.

1:06.4

So he drinks too much. What is the situation?

1:10.8

I mean it's kind of, I don't know if it's one situation, but you know, an ongoing for many years where I see my

1:24.4

opinion, and I see them pretty often and he in my opinion drinks excessively.

1:27.2

Mm-hmm. And and what situation comes to mind where you're witnessing that, feeling that.

1:35.0

Well, most recently I was with them and it was like a Monday night, which to me feel significant because it's like, you know, a weekday or something and it was like he had just gotten enough work and he was like, okay, I want a drink and then he poured himself a shot of tequila and he also grabbed a beer and he's like both drinks in his hands.

1:56.1

Mm-hmm.

1:57.1

Okay. And, and, and, and be in the, are you in the living room and the kitchen living room and are you sitting or

2:06.2

standing sitting and your mother is she sitting or standing she's at work still okay she's at work still. Okay, she's at work. Yeah. So just the two of you? It's me and my my grandparents are also there and my aunt. Okay. So you see them in the room, they're all in the room, okay, and you see your dad, is he standing when he says that?

2:28.6

He's standing, yeah. Okay, and then he gets the two drinks and he goes to sit down in the living room.

2:34.6

Okay, so there it is.

2:37.4

He drinks too much.

2:40.3

Look at him in your mind's eye. He's got tequila and what appear?

2:46.8

Mm-hmm. So he's got that. Really look at him. He drinks too much.

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