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Guilt is something that I struggled with a lot at the beginning of grieving my mother.

I often replayed a lot of should-a-kudawas, aka, I wasted a whole lot of time on things that, you know, didn't serve my healing experience. And because women and girls have been

socialized since the beginning of time to be super apologetic to get along with everyone to be over accommodating to not hurt other people's

feelings to take care of everyone we've basically been shaped into humans who not only hoard guilt but also process it with this deep angst.

But the gag is because there's always a gag with our emotions. The gag is

guilt is completely normal and to be human means that you're going to feel guilty occasionally.

Guilt is an emotional experience that happens when you believe or recognize that you have compromised your own standards of conduct or you have violated

a perceived universal moral standard.

With guilt, you bear some sort of responsibility for these violations.

So with this concept, if we are doing the emotional work we need to do in order to heal from life's shit, you will feel guilty because we don't

get it right all the time and we will not.

At the core of our human experience is missteps and fumbles.

Guilt is indeed uncomfortable as Vok, but it is hardly ever fatal. I'll say that one more time for you again. It is

hardly ever fatal. And I also want to point out to you that healthy feelings of guilt can actually motivate you to truly live within the walls of your authentic values.

And in doing that, you can really improve your relationship with others and more importantly with yourself. In today's episode we're going to learn how to kick the butt of those unnecessary or excess feelings of guilt that can also be a psychological

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