For more than two decades, Bill had stopped drinking, built a life in recovery, and used meetings, service, approval, belonging, and spiritual ideas to manage internal distress. Then Byron Katie asked a question that opened a new direction: “Do you believe everything you think?” In Part 2 of this series, Bill explores how questioning thoughts helped him see the difference between another person’s behavior and the suffering created by the thoughts he believed.

I didn’t know I had trauma until sobriety exposed it. This is my journey through Bioenergetics, The Work of Byron Katie, and Internal Family Systems toward healing and self-leadership.