To Free Yourself From Guilt, Do These 6 Things
Do you struggle with guilt?
With beating up on yourself for what you’ve done wrong or failed to do or could do better?
Guilt is one of therapy’s most common punchlines. And I say “punchline” because that’s what people do with it. Use it to hurt themselves.
Guilt is a human emotion related to the moral bar — or any bars actually — we’ve set for ourselves. When we fail to reach it, or let ourselves down, we feel bad.
We tend to feel the most guilt over things we see as “bad” or “wrong”. But it’s also super-common to connect it to the things we haven’t done, are not doing or doing enough of — or could do better.
All of which is tiring and corrosive to our wellbeing and mental health.
What to do?
But I Feel Guilty ALL the Time
“Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.” ― Jennifer Crusie
Guilt is almost a bona fide psychological syndrome in the 21st Century. The demands on us are relentless, not just to get sh*t done…
