Welcome to episode 169. It's a mini episode on guilt. And my guest is a returning guest.

Dr. Guy Winsh is a clinical psychologist and he's going to have some insights and tips on how

to deal with guilt. Before we get to that, I want to read a survey from Shaman Secrets. It has

to do with guilt. I'm also going to read some surveys after the interview with Guy and some of

them are pretty heavy. So just given me a warning to those of you that aren't in the mood for that,

you might want to let... Oh God. This is from the Shaman Secrets survey filled out by a woman who

calls herself Ray. And she's straight. She writes straight, I think, in her 20s raised in a stable

and safe environment, never been sexually abused. But she has been emotionally abused. I was bullied

and demeaned by the kids in my elementary school, my teacher and the principal. The teacher would

encourage bullying or ignore it and sometimes would add to it. One day I got kicked out a class for

not finishing my math homework and the principal sat me in his office and told me I was playing games

with him, my teacher and the school. I couldn't figure out why not finishing my math homework was

such a huge deal that would lead to the teacher screaming at me to go outside in the middle of winter

in Canada. I was crying when the principal was telling me what I was doing wrong and that I was

in the wrong. The time I was really angry and I hated adults so much. I felt like they were all

just mean idiots. Now sometimes I fantasize about going now, sometimes I fantasize about going back

in time as an adult into my 11 year old body and telling my teacher and the principal what I really

thought of them and making them feel stupid. But this is more for fun than out of anger. But mostly

I'm grateful that this was the worst thing I had to face as a child. I don't hold a grudge against

anyone. What makes me feel awful is that I took my anger at this situation out on my little brother.

We get along okay now but it still makes me feel horrible that I did that. I wish there had been

some guidance in my life for me to deal with the anger from being bullied in a better way instead

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