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Katy Byrne, MA, MFT
Psychotherapist, Columnist, Radio Host, Animal Rights Activist
Katy's mission is to provide a safe space for people to speak up

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

Announcing Katy Byrne’s Audio book:
The Power of Being Heard

Conversations that matter.Click here to purchase now produced by ProAudioVoices, price: $14.95

The Power of Being Heard is about having a strong voice and how it can invigorate your life, build satisfying relationships and change the world.

Katy’s funny, vivid, honest stories and helpful tools for simple, easy to remember, uncomplicated ways to have conversation in conflict will help you, even while sweating through it. Her stories about the large cost of unspoken words will inspire you to speak up skillfully and listen more respectfully, even when you don’t want to.

Katy became passionate about the reparative power of working through conflict growing up in a family with deadly silences or verbal attacks and criticisms. Through divorce and broken friendships she wondered why personal and political separation, strife and isolation was so rampant.

Witnessing, as a psychotherapist for forty years, the renewed vigor and intimacy that is possible from building better communication and understanding between couples and families formerly in anguish, she has seen transformations that were more widely possible. These partners often started out with radiant love, that then devolved into threadbare tires, going round and round the same arguments with no resolution – before learning, what Katy calls, “relationship 101.” This miraculous shift seemed possible on the globe as well.

Katy admits, nobody wants to enter scary conversations, not even her. “Why bother,” she asks candidly? “Pick your battles,” it’s not your problem that your sister or neighbors are rude. Our natural instinct is to attack or walk away. What we forget is the soothing relief, new safety and circulation in our bodies and the body of the world when we find ways to get along. The problem is that we leave a hole in the fabric of our communities when we don’t bridge gaps, leaving us wearing an itchy sweater.

Any small act of having a voice takes risk, it is the ultimate bravery. “My aim is to encourage this essential paradigm shift, from allowing power over us, to the new narrative – the heroic power of being heard.

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

Conversations that matter.Click here to purchase now from LangMarc Publishing, price: $18.95 softcover, ISBN: 1-880292-823. Also on Amazon!

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, The Courage to Speak Up: Getting your Hairballs Out 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 conviction 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.
                 
      
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.

 

 

 

 

Katy Byrne -
Radio host for many years
 (KVON & KSVY)

Creating dialogue is her strength.

Katy's style is deep yet comfortable, as she normalizes our human foibles through courageous, and often funny, self-disclosure. Katy's trademark is her belief in the power of honest communication to make the world better through creating dialogue, and therefore, connection.

" I believe we can change the world if we start listening to one another again. Simple, honest, human conversation. Not mediation, negotiation, problem-solving, debate , or public meetings. Simple, truthful conversation where we each have a chance to speak, we each feel heard, and we each listen well. This is how great changes begin, when people begin talking to each other about their experiences, hopes, and fears.

What would it feel like to be listening to each other again about our yearnings, our fears, our prayers, our children?"

Margaret Wheatley Turning To One Another