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

#133: My Mother is Irritated by My Mere Existence • 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

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Kate's mother is constantly criticizing her, and Kate believes she is irritated by Kate's mere existence. Join us, as together we identify and question the cause of her suffering.
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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Oh I love that you've tuned in. My guest today is Kate and she sees her, she's in therapy with her mother and she sees

0:16.7

her mother as egocentric and as mean and a bully and unconscious and a

0:23.3

total jerk.

0:25.6

So, and I hope you enjoy this.

0:28.4

So let's step into therapy with Kate and her mom.

0:38.0

Okay, here be all together. I love to join you. Those of you new to the work today,

0:40.0

the work is a way to identify and question the thought that caused all the suffering in your world.

0:47.0

So Kate, do you have a Judge-Your- Neighbor Worksheet?

0:51.0

Oh, good. So read number one what did you write? Yeah I just

1:00.2

want to say I've been starting to work with your method more consistently over the last few weeks

1:05.8

and I'm starting to feel lighter and I feel so much more motivated to do these things.

1:10.5

Oh honey, that's so good. Yeah.

1:13.0

And the situation that I'm going to do here, like,

1:18.0

it's about my mother, so sometimes it's hard,

1:20.0

there's so much there to narrow down. So I'll just read what I wrote and we can go with that

1:26.1

I guess. So I'm angry at my mom because she doesn't see that she's getting irritated by my mere existence.

1:34.0

Oh, wow, honey.

1:34.9

So what is the situation?

1:37.8

Oh, it's just a lifetime of, we've started therapy together yesterday, and it's just like a lifetime of of butting heads that I didn't even I wasn't even aware of them until a couple years ago that we were was like so ingrained. So she just looks at you you

1:56.7

experienced sometimes when she just looks at you she becomes irritated. Well I mean she'll she'll burst out in anger at me

2:06.4

And then you know like yesterday when we're talking about it in therapy she's like oh but you know it was like accumulated small things of

2:13.7

irritation or whatever and it's like okay so you know she's mentioned things that

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