Loving Through Guilt

Guilt is an emotion that can cause so much stress on ourselves, an emotion that we can carry for our entire lifetime if we do not deal and heal it. When I speak of guilt, I do not mean breaking the law kind of guilt, but our own law for ourselves. Each person has had a feeling of guilt, where we might have said something that caused someone else to feel bad, did something that caused harm, or just knowing we did not act in the way we know we wanted to. Guilt can also follow when we let someone or something go, even though we believe it is for the best and that it needed to happen, we can feel heavy and full of guilt.

There are times in our lives when we will not always be at our best, where we may be triggered, hurt, or just not in a good place and as tough as it can be, we must give ourselves grace. We need to remember we are souls having a human experience, we are not perfect, we are learning each and every moment of our lives.

Guilt can keep us prisoners if we do not forgive ourselves or others. The thing I have learned is sometimes doing what we know is right doesn’t always leave us feeling good, but it is in those times we need to let go of that guilty feeling and remember we are all doing the best we can. XO-Rach