It is my contention that conversation can change the world.
  - Katy Byrne

Announcing Katy Byrne’s new book:
Hairball Diaries: The Courage to Speak Up

Click here to purchase now from LangMarc Publishing, price: $18.95 softcover, ISBN: 1-880292-823.

Tools for Effective Communication, One Hairball at a Time

Think of the last time someone made you mad and rather than tell them you held it in, vented to someone else or stuffed yourself with food. According to communication expert Katy Byrne, author of the entertaining new book Hairball Diaries: The Courage to Speak Up (Langmarc Publishing, 2007), that’s a human hairball, a complicated web of pent up emotions and unsaid needs and wants, rooted in fear.

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, Hairball Diaries: The Courage to Speak Up 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 contention 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.

What I offer to the planet is conversations on radio, in TV, in therapy, and in community. 

In my book, "Hairball Diaries, The Courage To Speak Up," I outline (in three steps) how to tell the truth.

I facilitate groups and work with individuals, families, and couples who wish to connect better with each other and move forwards with their wishes.

I coach men on how to have conversations with women that create intimacy instead of alienation. Men often do not realize that they are great guys, but not quite making the connections happen. This can often be solved quite easily, but needs some coaching.

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. I do "fun raising" and have parties for "party animals" as a way of offering funds to legislative bodies that change laws so that the voiceless ones are protected.