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I'm Anne Strange Champs.

Does it ever seem like there are an awful lot of things to feel guilty about these days?

Are you failing to lean in at work?

Falling short on your life goals? backsliding on your diet, feeding your

family the wrong food, imperfection is a terrible thing to live with.

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Okay, I wish we had a five-step process to eliminate guilt because we could all use the relief.

Wouldn't it be nice to stop feeling guilty about everything?

Diet, exercise, work, money, relationships is always something we should be doing better.

So how did we wind up in such a giant cultural guilt trip?

Writer Devorah Baum has been wondering because she too feels guilty all the time.

How soon after you wake up do you start feeling guilty?

Well, the question is whether or not I've got to sleep, really.

There's a new book just about to come out by psychoanalyst, Darian Leder.

I think it's called Why Can't We Sleep?

And his theory is guilt.

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