The Way Out

’I’m stuck in a bottomless pit,’ Julian tells Byron Katie, describing a years-long depression that makes him doubt whether he can even get out of bed.’ That’s my story, too,’ Katie says. ‘And there’s no one who can understand you if they haven’t been there. It’s horrible, horrible.’ The way out, she says, was to isolate the thoughts that were causing the horror and then to question them. Katie helps him get started by using his story to fill out a Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet. With Katie’s help, Julian contemplates how it would be for him without the thought that he can’t get out of bed, and notices that he would have no problem. ‘I would just be lying in bed at peace,’ he says. copyright 2015 Byron Katie International, Inc. All rights reserved. For more information, visit thework.com."