Yay, you're here. I'm Lisa Whittle, and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything interview show,

affectionately known as Joe's Friday friend, where everyone I sit down and talk with is either an old or a new friend of mine.

Boy, is today's conversation a good and necessary one. If you've ever struggled

with guilt of any kind, this show is for you. Guilt over your work, guilt over your mothering,

even pandemic guilt. Yep, there's such a thing, friends. I discuss it all with my incredible

guest today, Valerie Burton. Valerie is a seasoned author. She's written 13 books, yeah, and she does

coaching for folks in their faith and work and life, which you will soon get a taste up in this

fabulous show. We talk about principles from her coaching and her new book, Let Go of the

Guilt. Stop beating yourself up and take back your joy. I'm telling you, hang on because you're going to be so blessed

by this woman's wisdom and she's going to help you with that nagging struggle with guilt

so many of us face every day. Here we go. I'm certain this is going to be one of those

conversations that people are going to pass on, share on their social media, text to a friend to listen, because, girl, we're going to get into it today, Valerie.

It's deep. It's something I think just about all of us can relate to you.

Oh, my word. I don't know how anybody couldn't relate to it. I'm telling you. Well, by get into it,

I mean, we're going to talk about a subject that a lot of people struggle with, and it's the subject

of guilt. I would love to just spend a lot of time chit-chatting, but to be honest with you,

this is one of those subjects that I find so important that I'm like, I think this is going to take up a full 30 minutes, 35 minutes.

And so I'm just going to dive right in.

Out of all the topics you had to write about, what made you say I'm putting it all down about guilt this time?

Because you've written quite a few books thus far. Yeah. This is number 13 and I've never written anything like this. First of all,

you know, I, my focus is around inspiring women to live more fulfilling lives. My educational

background and positive psychology is more about happiness and resilience and all the positive emotions about life.

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