"The Work" is a simple yet powerful method designed to promote happiness through a direct inquiry into the nature of suffering. Cultivated directly from Byron Katie’s own experiences with clinical depression, The Work promotes an immediate change in our emotional perception through an unbiased acknowledgment of the truth – not the truth we want but the truth as it is. Once we know the truth and rationalize it unconditionally, we allow the emotion to be put in perspective.  This renders a sense of immediate relief by allowing us to let go of unnecessary pain associated with circumstances outside of our control. Accepting reality as it plays out, grants us with a limitless freedom to deal with situations on our own terms. Since 1986, Katie has introduced The Work to thousands of people in over 30 countries, and has adapted it for use in corporations, universities, schools, churches, prisons and hospitals. Byron Katie has been like a magnet to millions of men and women worldwide who come to see her to heal their relationships with themselves, to lose weight and rid themselves of addictions, depression as well as save their relationships with loved ones including their marriages.  TIME magazine recently named Katie "a visionary for the new millennium." In March 2002 she published her first book, Loving What Is, co-authored with author and husband Stephen Mitchell.