A step-by-step way out of overthinking. Ten short lessons in self-inquiry, built on four simple questions, taken on one painful thought you’ve been carrying.
A self-paced course with Grace Bell.
“When I think about something upsetting, I won't trust my thoughts. I'll ask myself - "But is it really true" and think it through.” ~ MD, retreat participant
Instant, lifetime access · 10 lessons · self-paced · $44
A person, a conversation, a betrayal or a loss, and it still lands in your chest when their name comes up, or when you drive past the house, or at 2am when the argument starts up again in your head and this time you’re winning it.
You’ve understood it. Maybe you’ve forgiven it, meditated on it, and talked it over more times than you can count, and still something in you tightens. Overthinking it hasn’t set you free.
Underneath the replay there’s almost always one sentence, something you decided about what happened, and you’ve believed it so long that it stopped looking like a belief and started looking like the truth.
She never loved me. He should have protected me. I’m worthy of being left. It shouldn’t have happened.
Time can’t touch a sentence like that, and thinking about it more mostly gives the mind more to defend. What you can do is question it. Not to make what happened okay. To find out whether what you decided it means is true.
I came home from my first School for The Work of Byron Katie, and in our first conversation my husband told me he no longer wanted to be married.
I’d done years of therapy. I understood my family, my patterns and why everyone behaved the way they did, including me, and none of that understanding helped. What helped was taking the simplest sentence, he left me, and looking at what it meant to me.
Underneath it was a sentence I’d never said out loud: I am worthy of being left. I didn’t know I’d been assuming it for years. I questioned it (not the divorce, and not him), and it wasn’t as solid as it looked. The marriage still ended. What I was carrying about myself inside it didn’t, at least not in the same way, and that was the beginning of the life I have now.
We take one thought, slowly. We’ll explore the meaning you’ve been making of it, feel what the thinking stirs up inside you, and investigate. The course centers on the four questions and turnarounds I’ve used since 2005. They come from The Work of Byron Katie, and I also draw on teachers like Michael Singer, Pema Chödrön and Adyashanti.
A woman came to one of my retreats still furious at her father, who had been dead for eleven years. By the end of the weekend something in her had visibly settled, and not because she’d decided to forgive him. She had stopped arguing with the man and started questioning the sentence, he abandoned me and destroyed our family, which she’d believed since she was nine. Nothing about the past changed. What she’d been carrying about herself inside it loosened.
“I realized through inquiry that this mostly comes from my own perception and beliefs about myself and my self worth.” ~ JN, retreat participant
“I've empowered myself to NOT be so afraid of speaking with my daughter” ~ GD, retreat participant
“Many of my beliefs were formed at an early age. I was surprised, relieved and humbled to come away from The Work with such dramatically changed perspectives, understanding, clarity, and internal strength and empowerment...and peace.” ~ Online course participant
Many people worry that questioning a thought means calling something terrible good, or deciding it was their fault. It doesn’t, and I won’t ask you to. Questioning a sentence doesn’t mean condoning what happened to you, forgiving anyone, or deciding it was all for the best. You get to find what’s true for you.
Ten lessons, the demonstration, and lifetime access, for about the price of a good dinner.
Do I need any experience with self-inquiry?
No. If you’ve never questioned a thought this way, the lessons walk you through each step. If you’ve read every book on it and still haven’t taken one story all the way through, this course is for you too.
Is this therapy?
No. It’s a self-paced course in self-inquiry. It isn’t therapy or crisis support, and it doesn’t replace care for trauma or PTSD.
How much time does it take?
Ten short lessons, at your own pace. Some people watch one a day, and some do all ten on a Sunday.
What if the thought comes back?
It may. Lesson 10 is about what to do when it does.
What happens after I buy?
You get instant access to all ten lessons, and an email with a registration link to set up your login.
If you’ve understood it, forgiven it, meditated on it and talked about it for years, and it still hurts, maybe the trouble was never you. Maybe it was the sentence.
I don’t know what you’ll find. I just know that what I've found has been amazing and life changing. Questioning my thinking has changed my entire life. Come find out what’s true for you.
Much love,
Grace
Grace Bell, MA Applied Behavioral Science, Certified Counselor (Washington State). Facilitating self-inquiry since 2005.
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