Turnaround House :: The Work of Byron Katie

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Turnaround House, Byron Katie's new 28-day one-of-a-kind program, is designed to help you confront your addiction, the only addiction: the mind's addiction to the unquestioned stressful thoughts that cause all the depression, addictions, violence, and suffering in the world.

Turnaround House is focused on The Work of Byron Katie, a remarkable process that millions of people—addicts, veterans, filmmakers, students, artists, homemakers, executives, politicians, and mental-health professionals—have used to successfully overcome their deep-seated self-defeating behaviors.

"I did The Work and smoking quit me." —G.M.

Turnaround House is the only program qualified and approved by Byron Katie to use The Work exclusively in its addiction program. Katie's qualified staff, filled with fearless unconditional love and understanding, will guide you through this one-of-a-kind, groundbreaking 28-day program. Byron Katie is on staff as often as her schedule allows.

If you are depressed, suffer from shame, guilt, and confusion.

If you eat even when you're full.

If you experience a loss of energy or great fatigue, lack of purpose.

If you want to change the way you think and feel dramatically.

If you are indecisive.

If you are tired of living your life seeking the love and approval of others.

If you suffer from burnout.

If you experience recurrent thoughts of death and suicide.

If you often hate yourself.

We invite you to your own 28-day Turnaround House experience:

If you feel pushed and pulled by painful, stressful thoughts and if some of them begin with "I can't...." "It's too...." "There's no...." "They won't...", and you have stumbled over one or more of these thoughts, then we welcome you to the Turnaround House experience.

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or call 1-888-98KATIE
Questions? Email: turnaroundhouse@thework.com

How it Works

Using The Work of Byron Katie to locate and utilize the wisdom within you, we are easily able to identify and deal directly with the root-cause of dysfunctional acting-out, addiction, depression, burnout, violence, confusion, fear, suffering, and pain.

The "how" of dealing with problems finally becomes completely understood, as we question the stressful thoughts that are the cause of suffering.

With the help and support of Byron Katie's personally trained certified facilitators/instructors and staff, you yourself will see precisely what is propelling your addictive thoughts, actions, depression, and outbursts.

Turnaround House turns your mind back to the beginning, back to reality, and once that is done, through inquiry, experience, and other offerings in the Turnaround House program, the cycles of pain are broken, and agony ends, even if you have experienced years of turmoil, obesity, addictions, or depression.

If you are looking for a way out, we invite you to drop in. We are open to welcome you home 24/7.

Accommodations

Turnaround House is a gentle and respectful place where you learn to identify, question, and easily understand your mind, (the mind) that causes all the self-hatred, depression, and unhappiness in your life. Turnaround House itself is restful, simple, and designed to support you as you turn your life around. Turnaround House is a tobacco, drug, caffeine, refined substances, and alcohol free home (participants must be clean and sober for a minimum of two weeks prior to attendance).

Meals: Healthy and Sane

The meals at Turnaround House are nutritionally and originally designed to create optimal balance of body and mind while at Turnaround House. For those of you who see yourselves as overweight, underweight, out of balance, confused, alcoholic, drug addicted, and are willing to follow the simple Turnaround House program, remarkable emotional and physical changes, including weight loss and a way to maintain the weight loss, can become a simple, natural way of life.

Aftercare

Maintenance for mind and body becomes second nature after you leave Turnaround House. The high standards, quality of care, and usefulness of our longterm aftercare program support your maintenance.

The support of Byron Katie's staff members, a free by phone Do The Work help line, membership in our support-minded Turnaround House Community, which includes daily, weekly, and monthly programs, makes it easy to stay connected to The Work and Turnaround House long after your stay.

To Register

If you are determined to come to Turnaround House, what an amazing decision you have made! We are waiting for you here. We understand how difficult it can be to just close your eyes, say yes, and jump into the unknown.

With all our hearts, we invite you to make that leap and to realize what is always there to catch you. We at Turnaround House are waiting to welcome you home.

The Fee: $20,000, ($2,000 non-refundable deposit, with the balance due prior to your arrival.) Reservations are dependent on space. You must be drug and alcohol free for a minimum of two weeks prior to your arrival.

To attend this life-changing 28-day program now,
please call 1-888-98-KATIE

If you have questions please contact Virginia via email at
turnaroundhouse@thework.com

A Note from Byron Katie about Turnaround House

As many of you know, The Work is always free on my website. Everything that people need to get sane is there, as well as in my books, which are in as many libraries, school systems, prisons, and nonprofit organizations as we can afford to place them in. There is a free by phone Do The Work help line on the website, and a free round-robin network where people can do The Work with trained facilitators.

That said, the decision to create the Turnaround House experience was simple. We wanted to give people who could afford it a chance to experience the transformational effect of The Work and support it at the same time. The money raised through Turnaround House, even though we are the "for profit" branch for The Work, is used to spread The Work around the world and to support the World Center for The Work in Ojai, CA.

We will continue to expand the scholarship program for those who cannot afford the nine-day School for The Work-teachers, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and others who work in hospitals, public schools and universities, prisons, government offices, rehab and literacy centers, etc. These people and institutions don't always have the funds to allocate because their budgets are stretched to the point of bare essentials just to continue operating. They take The Work back to their families, their communities, and their institutions, and everyone who follows the simple directions in the School (I call it the School of You) carries less burden, more clarity, and a kinder life out to the world as a result of it. And I continue to urge people, if there's any way possible, not to live the rest of their lives without doing the School of "YOU" first.

The money raised also allows us to pay for our staff, the websites, our offices, and the travel to countries and to people who cannot afford to pay our travel. We thank you for supporting The Work so that we can continue programs like our prison projects in prisons, such as San Quentin, our education projects, and our work with the V.A. for our vets suffering from post-war traumas. We stay alive because you say so.

Thank you for your support.

Loving the way of it all,
All ways,
Byron Katie

People who have completed the 28-day Turnaround House experience say...

"I am a recovering heroin addict ... but after being introduced to The Work I had to ask myself, 'Is my mind clean and sober?' The answer was NO. The Work has assisted me in getting to the root causes of my addiction, which is imperative for permanent change. What really impresses me is how versatile the questions are. Not only do I apply The Work to my thoughts around my addiction, but every area of my life..."

- B.

"Please pass along to Katie my gratitude for Turnaround House. Wow! I feel great! I find myself doing my own Turnaround House here at home, continuing the food plan, loving how I have no cravings, continuing the morning exercise and loving the 5 stretching movements. My vision continues to improve, relationships feeling more honest. Getting reports from others that I look and feel strong and well. Thank you for the life changing opportunity."

-K.

"The Turnaround House experience blew my mind and continues to. Every day, I’m resting more and more in that spacious place of not knowing and not needing to know. Life is getting more lighthearted and more relaxed ...I’m trusting it more. The Turnaround aftercare sessions and directions for that, by the way, are FAB!

I feel so lucky to have had the Turnaround House experience and want to be a part of offering it to others. Some of the thoughts that used to stick like cockleburs aren’t sticking anymore: 'I need to intervene,' 'I don’t want to be embarrassed,' and 'I’m not capable of that.' I am enjoying taking more risks now. What’s there to lose?"

-M.

"Incorporating the exercises and doing The Work on a more consistent basis has been wonderfully beneficial for me and probably more so for those around me. And out of my Turnaround House experience came the realization that almost anything is possible. My life has been more peaceful and relaxing than I have experienced in as many years as I can remember. "

-J.

"I’m so thankful that Katie created the Turnaround House and that I gave myself the gift to attend! I use to wake up sad and grumpy, filled with self loathing. After 28 days of intense Work, questioning beliefs that I’ve had since childhood, beliefs that I considered true, beliefs that I based my life on, I now wake up with love and joy in my heart, and I’m filled with gratitude.

-J.

"I ran away from a 29-year marriage with 2 suitcases and not much else. I was in such a state of fear/anxiety that I was shaking uncontrollably as I drove away from the house, fearing I might meet my husband on the road somewhere in the very rural small town setting where we lived.

I was forced to give up my medications for depression/anxiety because he chose not to work and to use all of our savings until we had none left and he applied for welfare. My attempt at suicide to escape the darkness, loneliness and utter fear/desperation failed--he let me lie unconscious for 3 days in our bed without ever calling 911. Somehow, when I awoke, he just yelled as usual that I "should go live in a f--in hole somewhere and not be so selfish to do something like that again!" This from a man who was a former CEO of a company and now due to his life choices, our family was on welfare and without any insurance or income.

My thoughts were in such a state of confusion, I couldn't think. I was just in survival mode there for months now. I left the state and ran to family for safety and relief. I spent the better part of the next year sobbing, unable to eat/sleep and barely functioning day-to-day. During the year, I tried talking to him, he was unwilling. I finally filed for divorce and after having to go back to the state again and see him (and him yelling abusively at me as though I had never left a year before, and this time in front of one of our children), I knew it was the only thing I could have done. After the divorce hearing and seeing him again was so devastating, returning back to my family again, I was inconsolable. I felt complete devastation and was consumed by suicidal thoughts. Unable again to eat/sleep/think I spent one night hugging the toilet bowl on the bathroom floor for 10 hours dry-heaving and sobbing. I didn't know what to do. I saw Byron Katie on You-Tube and had had two of her books. It looked like relief. I picked up her book and couldn't even process the sentences in my head I was in such an awful place. I just continued to watch videos. Then, I found her website and wrote a letter about myself and my situation. I received a response almost immediately which helped me hang on. Katie invited me to Turnaround House and I gratefully accepted that invitation.

It was difficult for me to imagine attending the program, but I felt it was my only hope for a way out. On the way to California on the plane I finally read Katie's book Loving What Is and I felt so much better afterwards seeing how much her program had helped people who were confused and in fear to become at peace with themselves. I felt Katie could resonate with me personally as I was coming from a very similarly dark place that she had lived in herself before finding her way out through The Work. Although I had never met her, I trusted her completely.

I attended the Turnaround House program and am now home. To say this was life-changing is a serious understatement. Words cannot begin to describe that I am not the same person coming out that went into it. I am happy and have a peacefulness within my life which I have never known before. I know I will never need depression/anxiety medications again. I know now that LOVE heals. This program is LOVE. Katie and her staff were completely committed to loving me and helping me heal myself. Its all about self-realization and self-empowerment. I have the confidence to face whatever comes in life now. I am so grateful to Katie for taking me into her heart and program and giving me the tools to have the life I now know I deserve and love. I love them all and I love me now too."

-KB

"Dearest Katie, I am so grateful that you have offered this program to humanity, it really does turnaround someone’s life if they surrender and let it in! The Turnaround House experience was just what I required at a very low point in my life. I believed that I was of no value to life and was very serious about leaving this world but something inside me decided to give the Turnaround House a try before I took any action. I am so grateful that I did. The program is exceptional, the facilitators/staff are angels of unconditional love and acceptance and Katie, you are absolutely flawless in your understanding of the participants and in giving us the technique of the work. The the four questions and turnarounds are life shifting and most enlightening. I am so grateful for this program, the safety of the environment, the endless opportunities presented in the program and the exceptional aftercare. Coming back to life reality and applying the work in real time has been so empowering. The Turnaround House food plan has really been life altering for our family. Noticing and experiencing how food affects the mind and body has been life altering. I have noticed and experienced a true observer consciousness with my thoughts and it is such a blessing to not be emotionally attached to what comes into my head. I experience True peace of mind! I no longer believe the thought I am of no value to life and plan on staying in this world until I am not! Thank you so much for your generosity, compassion, presence and love. In love and gratitude, Nicole"

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