So I wanted to talk about the importance of guilt and how guilt plays a very important function

in our lives. And what I've noticed is that many people, when we have guilt come up,

we generally want to avoid that guilt, right? We feel guilty for doing something or saying

something or not having done something or having done something wrong or, you know, having let

somebody down, forgotten something, et cetera, right? And then guilt shows up and, and it's,

and it's there. And I was working with a client and this individual through the work that we were doing

started to realize that their relationship to guilt was one of active avoidance and that guilt

was sort of seen as this as this experience that something was undeniably wrong with them or

with their actions or something to do with with them,

right? And they're, uh, the way that they show up in the world. And I, I've realized that

over the years that, that guilt is actually an informant, right? Guilt is an informant,

uh, an informer of our, not only our inner experience, but it is

trying to subtly push us back towards a centerline of authenticity, of how we are meant,

how we are sort of architected, right, architected internally, our inner

architecture is sort of wired for us to gravitate more towards an authentic state of being,

right? And not only is it architected for us to move, want to move towards a more authentic

state of being, but we are designed to want to move towards a more authentic state of being, but we are designed to

want to move towards things that, again, either we want to avoid pain or we want to move towards

pleasure. And so guilt plays this very interesting function where I kind of think of it as the

guardrails when you go bowling, right?

Like when you remember being a kid or maybe a young adult or an adult

and learning how to bowl for the first time,

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