I Need Your Love - Is That True?

How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead

De: Byron Katie

Narrado por: Kimberly Farr

In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything you have been taught to do to gain love and approval. In doing this, you discover how to find genuine love and connection.

The usual advice offered in self-help books and reinforced by our culture advocates a stressful, all-consuming quest for love and approval. We are advised to learn self-marketing and manipulative skills—how to attract, impress, seduce, and often pretend to be something we aren’t. This approach doesn’t work. It leaves millions of walking wounded—those who, having failed to find love or appreciation, blame themselves and conclude that they are unworthy of love.

I Need Your Love—Is That True? helps you illuminate every area in your life where you seem to lack what you long for most—the love of your spouse, the respect of your child, a lover’s tenderness, or the esteem of your boss. Through its penetrating inquiry, you will quickly discover the falseness of the accepted ways of seeking love and approval, and also of the mythology that equates love with need. Using the method in this book, you will inquire into painful beliefs that you’ve based your whole life on—and be delighted to see them evaporate. Katie shows you how unraveling the knots in the search for love, approval, and appreciation brings real love and puts you in charge of your own happiness.


“Everyone agrees that love is wonderful, except when it’s terrible. People spend their whole lives tantalized by love—seeking it, trying to hold on to it, or trying to get over it. Not far behind love, as major preoccupations, come approval and appreciation. From childhood on, most people spend much of their energy in a relentless pursuit of these things, trying out different methods to be noticed, to please, to impress, and to win other people’s love, thinking that’s just the way life is. This effort can become so constant and unquestioned that we barely notice it anymore.

This book takes a close look at what works and what doesn’t in the quest for love and approval. It will help you find a way to be happier in love and more effective in all your relationships. What you learn here will bring fulfillment to all kinds of relationships, including romantic love, dating, marriage, work, and friendship.” —Byron Katie©2005 Byron Katie; (P)2005 Books on Tape, Inc.

thumbs up!

This is an excellent book which delves into Byron Katie's "Work" in great detail, specifically geared toward approval seekers. I'm very familiar with her "Work," and while a lot of this book is "The Work" over and over, she uses real examples of lots of people who also suffer from approval seeking and their outcomes. Hearing the raw emotion of so many people was healing in itself, and there are so many examples, everyone's bound to find something that resonates with them, personally. She also guides the listener to reframe situations, showing how to look at every situation from a new perspective.

I was, at first, a little disappointed it isn't read by Byron Katie, herself, but the narrator does a great job.

I recommend this book if you're struggling with people-pleasing and approval seeking!

Life Changing!

No words to describe how much this book has meant to me!
I listened to “Loving What Is” twice…mind blowing….then this book! DO NOT HESITATE!
I have NEVER left a book review before…says a lot about this book!
I have probably read a thousand “Spiritual/enlightenment/self help” books…and honestly, I feel like these two books are truly the only ones I need! I plan to apply this wisdom daily….for the rest of my life! Thank you, Byron Katie!

Help exercise and examples

Turnarounds are a good way to see life from different perspectives. I do agree with some of the other comments about not using this method for abusive situations.

Brilliant. Loved it.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes. We can all learn from Byron Katie.

What was one of the most memorable moments of I Need Your Love, Is That True??

The whole recording is great

What about Kimberly Farr’s performance did you like?

Very good. Easy to listen to

What did you learn from I Need Your Love, Is That True? that you would use in your daily life?

Repetitively ask my self " Is it true?" Can be applied to any situation.

Any additional comments?

Highly recommended

Lousy reader. Excellent book.

Lousy reader. Excellent book.
Ferndale voice reading book for Audible is so bad that it becomes extremely difficult and confusing to tell characters apart. FIND YOURSELF ANOTHER VERSION.