I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello, hello.

How are you doing?

Everything that I talk about, that I create, in some way shape or form, is about helping people to declutter, unpack, tidy up the emotional baggage that stands in the way of us becoming more of who we really are and enjoying more fulfilling relationships and opportunities.

Something that so many people struggle with is being and doing things not because they want to

or because they

they feel guilty.

There are things that they want to be, do and have, or if they do, they do things that basically amount to self-savitage.

And it's all because they feel, yep, guilty.

The thing is, though, and this is what I want to focus on today.

When we do things from a place of guilt, it always leads to problems.

We end up feeling resentful, we have fuzzy or absent boundaries, and our relationships are strained,

they're full of tension, friction, unspoken stuff hanging in the air, and it doesn't have to be this way.

Feeling guilty in some way, shape or form is the number one reason we use for justifying why we can't or won't

create healthier boundaries and why we're continuing to be and do certain things, even though we are getting very, very clear messages from our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health or from the experiences

that we're having and through the responses that we're experiencing with people that we need

to change course. people's

we justify crossing our own and inadvertently and yes sometimes

consciously, consciously, crossing other people's boundaries by saying that we have to feel bad.

You know we have to feel guilty so that other people don't feel bad, so that other people don't feel

guilty. And we don't realize that by being and doing things from a place of

guilt, even though it may mean harming us and damaging the integrity of our

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