I'm back from West Virginia, where I was at the veterans’ hospital to work with clinicians who want to know the what and how of The Work—to train them, answer questions about The Work as applied to Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, addiction treatment, rehabilitation, and more. What a privilege to represent all of us and to speak about what is, for so many of us, the miracle of The Work and how it works. It is a war-torn veteran’s dream! It works quickly, and they love it.
I visited Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D.C. with Patricia Parrott and her daughter Becky, as well as our own Tina from BKI, and introduced The Work to veterans, clinicians, nurses, etc. They were amazing! I hope to see some of them at the East Coast School in a couple of weeks. Also, some of you came to the two-day intensive in D. C. to work with more than a hundred veterans and clinicians from surrounding V. A. hospitals in three states. There is an amazing team of doctors in this area who are into what is cutting edge, and The Work is the one method that works well and fast, that holds, and that is simple to process patients with.
Thank you, family, for being there.
Also, thanks for traveling with me also to West Virginia to continue to process these amazing men and women who have returned from Iraq as well as those in the hospital. One veteran, William, told me that he had been living on the streets just to be sure that he could be at all three days of the event. The hospital could only bus people in on Saturday, and he had read Loving What Is and had to experience The Work with us.
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Veterans should be better treated as the heros they are and made to feel special. They deserve it and it may help them deal with their post stress.
Posted by Joe | August 5, 2007 12:08 PM
Posted on August 5, 2007 12:08
Dear Katie and everyone,
I want to share with you some of The Work that the veterans did at the facility in Martinsburg, WV with Katie June 29-30. It was moving to no end, and I am going to write about two of the many amazing people there.
One young man, Joe, probably an Iraqi War vet judging by his age, with his basball cap pulled down over his eyes, stood up when Katie recognized him and said something like, "those of you here who know me know that I hardly ever say anything. So here goes: I killed a woman and her child." And he looked at Katie, as if to say, "I dare you to get me out of this one, Lady" (My stressful thought was: "wow, I could never facilitate that one.") And katie took him through It. When he got to question 4 or maybe a turnaround, he abruptly exited the room, followed closely by Jonathan, one of the staff psychologists whom I had known from my School. (I was relieved to see Jonathan on Joe's tail, but my stressful thought was: "This was too much for Joe; he is going to hurt himself.") Two hours later, I saw Joe in the corridor after our lunch break. To my astonishment, he looked fine, and I walked over to him, he smiled at me, and I asked, "are you okay?" Joe said "I'm fine. I just knew I was going to break down so I left." I asked, "could I give you a hug because I know I need one myself," and he opened his arms and said, "I will always take a hug" so we did. We chatted for a bit and he was totally fine. Late, Katie told me that I never have to worry faciliating TW because "TW will not cause anyone any more pain than their own stressful thoughts have already caused them." And, in the case of Viet Nam vets who after 40 years are still believing stressful thoughts - and there were many there - this has to be really, really true.
Another amazing vet who did TW was an African American woman about 40 years old, who did TW on "I need more money" when Katie asked who among all of us who raised our hands Really Needed to do TW on this Universal Belief. Her story was that she is a single mom with 6 children, who was fired from her job because she missed a number of workdays while tending to her disabled child. She sold drugs to compensate and was arrested, convicted and imprisoned for two years; she had just 2 weeks before been released. (My thought: "Wow, it's one thing to facilitate this for a middle class, spoiled American, but this woman's story seemed true.") Well, TW worked yet again, never fails. The woman found that her kids always had shoes, clothing, food and a house, and when she sat down she looked so much better than I would imagine she had in years.
Katie shared later in a conference call that she cried off and on for 2 hours after her 2 days with these vets, families and clinical staffers. She said she was so moved and grateful to have been able to give them TW.
Thank you, Katie, for giving us all TW. Thank You, God, for giving us Katie, and thank You Katie for giving us God!
With Love and So Much Appreciation,
Anne W.
Posted by Anne Wotring | July 15, 2007 1:13 PM
Posted on July 15, 2007 13:13
Thank you Katie, for reflecting me back so beautifully to myself.
Your latest book is the most gentle and renewing I have ever read. The truth is monumental and yet so tender.
Posted by Katherine Carlson | June 7, 2007 3:48 PM
Posted on June 7, 2007 15:48
Oh dear kt and friends,
The picture collage from the VA events is gorgeous. Those few days were some of the best of my life! If there was ever validation that The Work works, this was it.
These men and women were just beautiful as they walked courageously through a mental minefield, held and guided perfectly by the four questions and turn-arounds.
It was a privilege to be a part of such a life-changing, breathtaking event. You, Stephen and BKI are incredibly generous and tirelessly loving.... and thanks to Patricia Parrott and her extraordinary team for all their work on the Intensive. As a local girl, I love this community and it is so exciting to be a part of a Hotbed Community for the Work.
Loving it all,
Lisa Lee
Posted by LIsa Lee | June 2, 2007 3:58 PM
Posted on June 2, 2007 15:58