#143: Am I Really a Bad Mother? • The Work of Byron Katie®

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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1. I am heartbroken with my son because he said I f--- up his life.

2. I want my son to be nice to me, to stop hating me, and to be civil to me.

3. He shouldn't scream at me. He should tell me what I did wrong so we can talk about it.

4. I need him to tell me exactly what I did to f--- up his life.

5. He is verbally abusive, a bully, and has no compassion for me.

6. I don’t ever want to be yelled at by him again.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to self-enquiry. My guest today is Eileen in her situation. She's in the
0:16.0	kitchen with her son and her son is going off on her so hard blaming his life on her.
0:24.4	She is the cause of all his marital problems,
0:29.2	its problem with his children, his whole life. And basically he's making it very clear that she, I'm going to do it here, she
0:39.4	effed up his life. And so this is a worksheet from a mother on her son. I hope you enjoy this. It's a goodie. pretty.
0:58.0	May the grace of God be always in your heart, as though it's not.
1:01.0	And so you could do something about it anyway.
1:04.0	If you've ever experienced guilt, you're up against a power.
1:09.0	No, can't get away with it.
1:12.0	Some of us are so used to guilt,
1:14.0	it's just a way of life,
1:16.0	we're just not doing that well, and it's not my fault, it's theirs.
1:22.0	Oh, hello, dears. Those of you new to the work today, welcome. What we do here in this community is we identify the cause of all our suffering and we question it.
1:36.0	And it's nothing you have to do in life,
1:38.0	but if you have an inquiry in mind
1:41.0	or you're curious to the cause of your suffering? Do I have more questions for you?
1:47.0	So that's what we look at here.
1:49.0	Eileen, honey, you have a worksheet?
1:52.0	Those of you new to the work today. Eileen, honey, you have a worksheet.
1:52.8	Those of you new to the work today, a judge-your-neighbor worksheet has six questions on it,
1:59.6	and Eileen has answered those six questions, and now we're going to question her thoughts.
2:08.0	So what do you write for number one? I wrote I am heartbroken with my son because he says I asked up his life.
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