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Carol Skolnick

 

Welcome to the Clear Life Store

 

  These books, CDs and films have
  been helpful, inspiring friends
  and companions on my journey       
  towards an “open mind, clear
  life."
I offer them here along with  
  exclusive products from Clear Life 
  Solutions to support you in your practice of inquiry and help you apply The Work to all areas of your life.

Transformational Inquiry eBooks by Carol L. Skolnick

These informative, activity-packed PDF guides help you to apply The Work of Byron Katie to real-life situations.

  Transformational Inquiry:  Working on
  Mothers and
Others    2nd Edition.
 
"I need my mother to love me." "Mothers should not      

  abandon their children." "My mother won't let me
  live my own life." "I get along with my mother,
  BUT...."
"Mother" is a loaded word. Newly revised and  

  expanded, the 73-page Second Edition includes more pages of  "Judge-Your-Mother" exercises and insights. Let this practical guide help you to heal your past as you unravel your most stressful thoughts about the parent you think you know so well.

"I got from Working on Mothers and Others that forgiveness and amends are for me and I can tell my mother about it or not. That allowed me to be open to the possibility of doing it. And now I really want to."
               —J.K., Yoga Instructor, Waco, TX


"This eBook journey demonstrates what's possible when we examine the umbilical discords that hold us back. As I do The Work on my mother—with Carol's sweet guidance—I find myself living more with a memory of her words of love for me from her death bed than with so many other negative associations. Thank you, Carol; you have joined your voice with Byron Katie's to bring more understanding and peace to my world."
               —M.K., Business and Life Coach, Superior, WI
$19.95

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 Transformational Inquiry:  Working on Your Work

 "My boss should..." "My clients don't..." "I have no skills." 
 "I should be doing something else."
What keeps you
  from "Loving What's Biz?" With The Work, you can
  create lasting and radical change in the workplace by
  addressing the beliefs underlying the way you relate to your jobs, your colleagues, your supervisors, your clients, your direct reports, and to yourself. 95 pages.

Praise for Transformational Inquiry: Working on Your Work:

"My only complaint about Transformational Inquiry:  Working on Your Work is that it is seriously under-priced. As for the rest, this little gem is a delight to read as well as a practical guide to healing your heart and regaining sanity at work. It is rare for an eBook to be as lucid, complete, and practical as this one. It will repay your thoughtful, open-hearted attention a thousand fold."

—Molly Gordon, Shaboom Inc.

"A breath of fresh air for those of us who need insight into the true nature of our work-related problems and a way out of our suffering. I think everyone with or without a job should be required to read this eBook!"
              
       —Rev. Dr. Tami Coyne, Career and Life Coach, author of        

                       YOUR LIFE'S WORK: A Guide to a Spiritual and Successful
                       Work Life

"Working on Your Work went beyond my expectations and thoroughly covered the topic with amazing clarity and insight. I found all the help I needed there. Your material is a great addition to Byron Katie's."
                     —Sandra Khoury, Certified Substance Abuse/Co-occuring

                       Disorders Counselor
                       Middlefield, CT
$19.95

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 NEW! Soul Surgery: Poems of Being Opened to   

 What Is

 Eleven poems by Carol L. Skolnick to support and inspire 

 you on our mutual journey. With photographs by the 

 author.

 

$5.95

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Coming soon:

Transformational Inquiry: Working on Your "Ex"

Transformational Inquiry: Questioning Creativity

Transformational Inquiry: Asking Depression

Transformational Inquiry: Fear Isn't Real (eBook and Audio package)

 

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Books and More by Byron Katie

Limited Time DIscount for "The Work on The Web"

The Work on the Web is the new online coaching application with all the information, materials, tools, video support and examples you need to do The Work successfully on your own. It's a good tool for beginners, especially if you find it difficult to concentrate on a worksheet when doing The Work on your own. It will also appeal to those who enjoy multimedia/interactive features.

What I find most useful is cutting down on paper clutter; The Work on The Web allows you to store and easily refer back to your worksheets in progress.

The price for The Work on The Web is $39 for three months. For a limited time, when you sign up using coupon code 119-1132, you'll receive two more weeks for free.

Sign up at

http://www.coachinginteractive.com/TheWork/bk1.asp

 

Who Would You Be Without Your Story? Dialogues with Byron Katie (paperback)
NEW! Fascinating, incisive, and often hilarious, the 15 dialogues between Byron Katie and workshop participants in this collection portray exactly the kind of dialogues you can have with your own thoughts as you dismantle the foundations of  suffering and experience the freedom and joy of finding your truth.
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Loving What Is (paperback)
The sourcebook for The Work, co-written with Stephen Mitchell. Required reading for my clients.
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Loving What is
Audiobook CD, abridged. Includes live dialogues with Katie and clients.
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I Need Your Love - Is That True? (hardcover)
"If you want to meet the love of your life, look in the mirror." —Byron Katie. Think "they" should be different?" Do you continually seek love, approval and appreciation in order to feel okay? Here's how to get real about relationships.
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I Need Your Love - Is That True?
Audiobook CD, narrated by Katie. Abridged.
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A Thousand Names for Joy   (hardcover)
"The Tao of Katie," with renowned Tao te Ching translator (and Katie's husband), Stephen Mitchell. In her inimitable fashion, Katie brings a practical, modern-day perspective to Lao Tzu's classic text on the art of living.
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A Thousand Names for Joy
Audiobook CD, narrated by Katie with Stephen Mitchell. Abridged.
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Making Your Thoughts Work for You
Four-CD set
Recorded live in Pasadena, California in 2006, Byron Katie and Wayne Dyer, presenting together for the first time, address the powerful effects of thoughts and how they create experience.
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Your Inner Awakening
Audiobook CD
This step-by-step introduction to The Work is one of the best recordings of Katie available; a must for beginning inquirers.
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Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie
NEW! Katie talks about the essential issues of our lives: love, sex, body, relationships, money, parents, self-realization. These quotes are compiled from the "Byron Katie On" series of small hardcovers to form one handy compendium of wisdom.
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Recommended Reading

Doing Nothing:  Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search

by Stephen Harrison. Like the Tao Te Ching, this is a small book that packs a huge whallop. In the dedication, Harrison says,

"How do we speak to each other without creating authority and power? How do we form relationship that is not bound by fear and need? How do we live in community in a way that expresses communion yet confirms our inherent freedom? This exploration cannot stop in the deconstruction of the conceptual world and the discord these belief systems have brought about. We need to find what can give expression to the whole in each of our lives, and together, in all of our lives."

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A New Earth (hardcover)
by Eckhart Tolle. Crystaline commentary on the mechanisms of the unexamined mind.
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Nonviolent Communication (paperback)
by Marshall Rosenberg. Do you speak and listen like a hungry jackal, or a big-hearted giraffe? NVC dovetails beautifully with The Work.
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Love is the Killer App (paperback)
by Tim Sanders. On becoming a business leader and "lovecat."
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Passionate Presence (paperback)
by Catherine Ingram. The peace of cultivating present-moment awareness. This is Catherine's experience, presented in beautiful prose.
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As It Is (paperback)
by Tony Parsons. Simple and fun to read nonduality talks.
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There Is Only Now (paperback)
by Scott Morrison. Sweet and sincere writings on unity consciousness.
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The Spiritual Chicks Question Everything: Learn to Risk, Release and Soar (paperback)
by Tami Coyne and Karen Weissman. Groovy guru girls get down to reality!
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A Course In Miracles (paperback)
Another way in. Many ACIM students say, "When I got The Work, I got the Course."
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Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison (paperback)
by Dorothy Rowe. In my opinion, this is the best book available on the nature of depression.
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The Depression Book (paperback)
by Cheri Huber. A Zen Buddhist perspective, with meditations and contemplations for those with depressive illness and bipolar disorder.
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The Velveteen Rabbit (paperback)
by Margery Williams. A stuffed toy bunny discovers what it takes to become real. "Loving what is" for children of all ages.
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Long Quiet Highway (paperback)
by Natalie Goldberg. Exquisite, funny, and moving portrait of the writer and Zen student as a young woman.
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365 Nirvana Here and Now (paperback)
ed. Josh Baran. A wake-up call a day keeps the suffering away. Deep and inspiring poems and quotes about self-realization from a variety of authors and traditions.
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The Essential Rumi (paperback)
Coleman Barks' peerless translations of the Sufi mystic. Includes "The Guest House," "Checkmate," and more.
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The Gift
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Here are dozens of healing, radiant, mind-expanding and downright audacious poems by the great Persian mystical poet Hafiz, rendered with love and playfulness by Daniel Ladinsky.
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Healing the Hardware of the Soul (paperback)
by Dr. Daniel Amen. How to get your human computer running at peak performance. (Dr. Amen says he works with the brain's hardware and The Work is the "software.")
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Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart (paperback)
by Dr. Mark Epstein. A Buddhist psychiatrist's take on achieving wholeness and balance, incorporating Eastern and Western principles.
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The Book of Job (paperback)
by Stephen Mitchell. The timeless Biblical tale of suffering and transcendence, translated from the Hebrew into English verse. "Is this you?"
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The Tao Te Ching (paperback)
by Stephen Mitchell. Our favorite translation of the Taoist classic is the catalyst for Katie's A Thousand Names for Joy. Read them side by side.
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Dropping Ashes on the Buddha (paperback)
Compiled and Edited by Stephen Mitchell
Zen Master Seung Sahn had a unique gift for making the ancient kong-an (koan) method meaningful to contemporary, young Western students. Stephen Mitchell creates a lively compilation of the master's dialogues, transcripts from Zen interviews, teaching stories and letters in this classic (and often very humorous!) guide to self-inquiry.
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Man's Search for Meaning (paperback)
by Victor Frankl. "That which shines brightly must endure burning." Frankl emerged from a concentration camp with a renewed sense of purpose. His outlook has helped millions of survivors of traumas great and small.
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Broken Open:  How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (paperback)
by Elizabeth Lesser. Life offers us a choice:  to turn away from the stress of change, or to embrace it and transform. The co-founder of Omega Institute, personal development pioneer Elizabeth Lesser describes from her own experience the "phoenix process" of rising from the ashes.
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Music


Eva Cassidy: Eva by Heart
(CD)
A reviewer at Amazon.com writes: "I humbly submit that the greatest female voice of the pop, jazz, blues, gospel, soul/R&B and/or folk genres belongs to Eva Cassidy. Her range of expression, style and tone quality are second to none and must be heard to be believed....'I Know You By Heart' is as poignant a ballad as you will ever hear."
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Deva Premal: The Essence
"The Chanteuse of Chant's" first album, featuring the hauntingly beautiful "Gayatri Mantra" and the reverential "Om Namo," both often played at The School for The Work.
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Kirtana: This Embrace (CD) 
Songs in the key of awakening. Deeply moving and insightful lyrics, and sweet music, by a devotee of Gangaji.
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Alanis Morissette: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (CD)
"That I would be good even if I gained 10 pounds." (By the way, Alanis loves The Work!)
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Peter Makena: In Love (CD)
"And all you can say is, Hallelujah!" Music to "love what is" by.
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Leonard Cohen: More Best of Leonard Cohen (CD)
Byron Katie often says, "If I had a guru it would be Leonard Cohen." Includes "Ring the Bells," "I'm Your Man," "Everybody Knows," and more favorites.
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Krishna Das: Live On Earth...For A Limited Time Only (CD)
Rockin' to the source! Sanskrit sankirtana (chanting) with a twist.
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DVD

Adaptation
The movie opens with a "Judge-Your-Neighbor" worksheet! (I hear Nick Cage does The Work.)
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A Beautiful Mind
Do you believe everything you think? Here's an inspiring portrayal of a Princeton University professor who learned to live peacefully with schizophrenia.
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I (Heart) Huckabees
"Existential therapy." Don't miss this hilarious look at the world of appearances. This came out around the same time as "What the Bleep," and I find it to be a far superior exploration of the same concepts.
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Baraka
"No story, no world," says Byron Katie. Project your own story here on these beautiful, wordless images!
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The 11th Hour

The environment may survive, but will we? Vivid images and dozens of scholarly interviews combine to present the most potentially terrifying yet uplifting portrait of the state of the earth, and our projected future. Filed with opportunities to question what we believe about ourselves, the planet, life, "shouldn'ts" and "shoulds," plus practical solutions. (Byron Katie's brief contribution to the film, while it did not make it to the theatrical release, is available in the DVD "extras.")

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The Corporation
Balanced, comprehensive, not pretty. Essential viewing for those with beliefs (in either direction) about the world of business and our participation in that world.
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