Don’t Give in to Guilty Feelings When you feel guilty, you are often experiencing a false or inappropriate sense of responsibility for something that has gone wrong. You may have magnified what you did and took personal responsibility for “whatever.” Instead of taking time to understand your role in the situation, you may have been unrealistic and automatically believed that …
Feeling Guilty and Letting Go
Feeling Guilty and Letting Go Guilt is an emotion that everyone has dealt with. It varies from experiencing a minor incident that doesn’t even deserve the feeling, to making a mistake with disastrous results that we spend most of our lives getting over. Letting go of those feelings, whether small or large, is the only way we can ever forgive …
Shame vs Guilt: Transcending Shame
Shame vs Guilt: Transcending Shame Many people use the words shame and guilt interchangeably, but they actually refer to different experiences. Guilt and shame do sometimes go hand in hand; the same experience may give rise to both feelings, but guilt reflects how we feel about ourselves and shame involves an awareness that our actions have injured someone else. In …
