The Work of Byron Katie · one-on-one coaching

Is it
true?

That question, sitting quietly under nearly every thought that keeps us up at night, is where this work begins. I'm Sharon, and I coach people through The Work of Byron Katie: four questions and a practice called the turnaround, applied to the exact thought that's been running your life without your permission.

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What this actually is

Not positive thinking. Not affirmations. Just questions.

The Work doesn't ask you to believe anything new. It asks you to look closely at what you already believe, and find out if it holds up.

Most of what causes us pain isn't the situation in front of us. It's a thought about the situation: he should have called, I'm not good enough, this shouldn't be happening to me. Byron Katie built this method after years of real suffering in her own life, and it comes down to something almost embarrassingly simple: write the thought down, then question it honestly, one step at a time.

I didn't come to this work looking for a system to teach. I came to it exhausted by my own mind, the way a lot of people do, and it's the only practice I've found that doesn't just quiet a thought for a moment. Done consistently, over real time, it changes the relationship you have with your own thinking. That's not a quick fix, and I won't pretend it is. It's a practice, the same way anything worth doing well is a practice.

The four questions

What we actually sit with together

Every session works the same stressful thought through the same four questions, then closes with the turnaround. It sounds small on paper. It rarely feels small in the room.

Q1 Is it true? Not what you've always assumed. Just: is it actually true?

Q2 Can you absolutely know that it's true? Most people find they can't, once they really sit with it.

Q3 How do you react when you believe that thought? What does it cost you in your body, your day, your relationships?

Q4 Who would you be without it? Same situation. No thought attached to it. Who's there?

Then Turn the thought around. Find the opposite, or the thought turned back on yourself, and see if it's just as true, or truer.

Who's guiding this

About Sharon

Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie · Trauma and Mindset Coach

Sharon

My own childhood was a hard one, the kind that leaves you believing things about yourself that aren't true and never were. I grew up certain I wasn't enough, wasn't safe, wasn't worth protecting, and for years I proved myself right by attracting the same kind of negative, abusive people and situations over and over again. It felt like fate. It wasn't.

When I found The Work, I finally had a way to take those beliefs I'd carried my whole life and actually look at them instead of just living inside them. Is it true that I'm not enough? Can I really know that? What I found, every single time, was that the answer was no. Those beliefs had never been true. I had just repeated them to myself for so long that they felt like fact.

Seeing that clearly changed me. Not in a small way. I became a different person, someone who no longer recognizes the version of myself who kept walking into the same pain again and again.

I'm a certified facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, and I also draw on Kiloby Inquiries in my coaching, another approach built around sitting with what's actually here instead of fighting it. I still do this work on myself regularly, because untangling one belief doesn't mean the next one won't show up. I'm not teaching from a place of having arrived somewhere finished. I'm teaching from the other side of exactly the kind of thinking that used to run my life, and I know what it takes to get there.

Certified Facilitator, The Work of Byron Katie Trained in Kiloby Inquiries Mindset Coach

How sessions work

What working together looks like

You bring the thought

Not a general mood, one specific stressful thought about one specific situation. That specificity is what makes the questions work.

We move through the four questions, slowly

No rushing to a positive conclusion. Some questions take thirty seconds. Some take the whole session.

We find the turnarounds together

This is usually where something shifts. Not because I convince you of anything, but because you find it yourself.

You leave with the practice, not just the session

The real change comes from doing this on your own, with your own thoughts, long after we've stopped meeting.

A note before you book: coaching in The Work is not therapy and is not a substitute for treatment from a licensed mental health professional. If you're currently working with a therapist or counselor, this practice can sit alongside that work, but it isn't meant to replace it. If you're in crisis, please reach out to a licensed professional or crisis line first.

Is ittrue?