It is my
conviction that conversation can change the world.
- Katy Byrne
Announcing Katy Byrne’s book:
From Conflict to Communication
 Click here to purchase now, from Amazon,
price: $14.95
Whether you’re challenged in relationships, marriages, with kids, bosses, co-workers, friendships, neighbors, with teachers, mediators, doctors, corporations, ailments, death or divorce – this book is relatable, riveting, helpful, inspiring and sometimes fun. Even your cat’s hairballs show the reader how to get rid of blocked emotions, bringing better communication, connections and relief.
This book is readable, from the repair Byrne sees in her forty years of counseling to her escape from the gynecologist with a misdiagnosis to the horrifying world news. Both hard and humorous lessons from her life bring us hope.
Why is the world so full of hatred and dividedness now? What can we do about it? Katy believes few other questions are so urgent.
This book combines research and humor, mingles with memoir, alongside insights about how we can easily get through gutsy conversations, melting gridlock and boundaries in order to build bridges.
Here we’ll find easy to recall tools for crucial conversations. With just a few cliff notes on how to get through conflict, we can change the world.
Here we see a way out – a way to heal, we, the people and politics.
Announcing Katy Byrne’s Audio book:
The Power of Being Heard
 Click here to purchase now produced by ProAudioVoices,
price: $14.95
The Power of Being Heard is about having a strong voice and how it can invigorate your life, build satisfying relationships and change the world.
Katy’s funny, vivid, honest stories and helpful tools for simple, easy to remember, uncomplicated ways to have conversation in conflict will help you, even while sweating through it. Her stories about the large cost of unspoken words will inspire you to speak up skillfully and listen more respectfully, even when you don’t want to.
Katy became passionate about the reparative power of working through conflict growing up in a family with deadly silences or verbal attacks and criticisms. Through divorce and broken friendships she wondered why personal and political separation, strife and isolation was so rampant.
Witnessing, as a psychotherapist for forty years, the renewed vigor and intimacy that is possible from building better communication and understanding between couples and families formerly in anguish, she has seen transformations that were more widely possible. These partners often started out with radiant love, that then devolved into threadbare tires, going round and round the same arguments with no resolution – before learning, what Katy calls, “relationship 101.” This miraculous shift seemed possible on the globe as well.
Katy admits, nobody wants to enter scary conversations, not even her. “Why bother,” she asks candidly? “Pick your battles,” it’s not your problem that your sister or neighbors are rude. Our natural instinct is to attack or walk away. What we forget is the soothing relief, new safety and circulation in our bodies and the body of the world when we find ways to get along. The problem is that we leave a hole in the fabric of our communities when we don’t bridge gaps, leaving us wearing an itchy sweater.
Any small act of having a voice takes risk, it is the ultimate bravery. “My aim is to encourage this essential paradigm shift, from allowing power over us, to the new narrative – the heroic power of being heard.
Announcing Katy Byrne’s book:
The Courage to Speak Up: Hairball Diaries
 Click here to purchase now from LangMarc Publishing,
price: $18.95 softcover, ISBN: 1-880292-823.
Also on Amazon!
Katy Byrne, MA, MFT is uniquely honest about her lifelong struggle with
communication, which led to a divorce and an eating disorder.
It wasn't until she developed strength and learned to express
herself did she win a lifelong battle with overeating and lost
100 pounds. Inspired by her beloved cat Einstein, The Courage to Speak Up:
Getting your Hairballs Out chronicles Byrnes'
hilarious struggle in an easy-to-read format that is ideal for
today’s busy men and women. Using personal experiences and 25
years of professional expertise as a family therapist, radio
show host and columnist, Byrne exposes that which keeps us
from our full potential. Along the way readers, through
insightful questions and journaling, learn how to silence
their inner critic, harness the power of anger and uncover and
properly eliminate hairballs in all areas of their lives.
It is my
conviction that conversation can change the world. I believe
that if we could all talk to each other there would be less
war, divorce, isolation, and suffering.
In every
dialogue that I facilitate, I intend to integrate animals
and humans in community that is peaceful. Educating the
public about the immense sensitivity of living creatures and
learning to live together with respect is important to me. |
