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Barbara Cavanagh

Barbara Cavanagh
Texas, USA
English

In 1997 I was given a small booklet and found The Work. Almost immediately, The Work overturned my life to right-side-up, distinguishing problems from facts, transforming facts into opportunities, benefits, and blessings. It may have saved my life. It certainly saved my marriage.

Trained in language (M.A. Duke) and law (J.D. Harvard), now I gratefully spend time as a personal coach (with access to a variety of mind-renewing tools); a graphics, projects, and communications consultant; and, in general, in pursuit of Fun, Delight, and Amusement as simply as possible. I enjoy the way of The Work to find the heart of any issue, untangling and smoothing the threads of the knots that had made up a painful story. For me as for you.

I offer face-to-face meetings, and also often work through e-mail, though rarely on the telephone. A first contact, including a full-session personal meeting in Austin, is always free of charge or obligation. Thereafter, we reach a suitable agreement about our work together, often setting a desired result, subjective or objective, inner or outer. Money need not be a problem.

In my experience, The Work of Four Questions and Reversal is always pertinent, a Universal Wrench to loosen anything. It would be my pleasure to hear from anyone. Focus and freedom.

Address:
PO Box 26236
Austin, TX, 78755 USA

Email: good_and_happy@yahoo.com


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: 'The best form of Cognitive Therapy, in our opinion, is offered in The Work of Byron Katie, who provides an approach to disarming catastrophic thinking by means of a process that one can do oneself. This is the approach that we recommend.' They then describe the procedure, adding: 'Our description of this process is rarely sufficient to become proficient at it. We discuss this method in our monthly 6-day clinics. Information specifically about this cognitive therapy work can be found at www.thework.com and in the books of Byron Katie." Wise and Anderson are practical, in-the-trenches therapists who work daily with severe pelvic pain and other chronic syndromes. They recommended Byron Katie's method already in the 4th edition of the book
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