Guilt And Shame

The Richard Nicholls Mental Health Podcast

Richard Nicholls

Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Education, Anxiety, Happiness, Self-improvement, Depression, Self Help, Psychology, Alternative Health, Counseling, Counselling

4.8 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Send us a text If we’ve hurt someone then I think it’s probably healthy to feel bad about it, to wish that we’d behaved differently and to want to make amends. But what isn’t healthy is continually beating yourself up over it or to think of yourself as a bad person because of what happened. Feeling bad because you hurt someone is guilt. But feeling as if you’re a bad person is shame, and they’re a bit different. Guilt you can do something with, you can learn from it. You can apolo...

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0:00.0	And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development
0:08.5	podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.
0:16.9	I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 158.
0:22.3	It's titled, Guilt and Shame.
0:25.0	And if you're ready, we'll start the show.
0:31.5	First off, I want to give a big shout out to everyone that replied to my social media question the other Friday.
0:38.0	For those of you that follow me on Twitter or Facebook, I asked if anyone had any specific topics
0:44.0	that they'd like me to talk about. And although I ask that here quite regularly and get emails
0:48.8	back when I do, it was really quite efficient to do it through social media, through Facebook
0:53.5	and Twitter.
1:00.4	I didn't ask on Instagram because, well, if you use Instagram, you'd know why.
1:09.9	It's a picture sharing social network, which is great for motivational quotes and gifts of someone dancing on a Friday morning, which is what I tend to do on Instagram.
1:10.7	Apologies. But without an image to share, it's is what I tend to do on Instagram. Apologies.
1:15.6	But without an image to share, it's not quite as easy to connect with people as Twitter on Facebook are.
1:16.6	Or maybe I'm using it wrong.
1:18.0	I'm probably using it wrong.
1:19.4	I'm a flipping dinosaur sometimes.
1:21.1	But anyway, I had loads of responses, loads of private messages, and there were quite a few
1:27.0	common themes.
1:27.9	First of all, I didn't have chance to reply to everything, literally.
1:31.5	It was just inundated. There was hundreds.
1:34.2	And I did read every single one of them.
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