Guilt Articles

1). Infidelity: How to Forgive Yourself for Cheating By : Michelle Langley
There is plenty of information available to help the spouse who's been cheated on, yet there is very little information available to help the wayward spouse. Countless relationships end as a result of infidelity. However, it’s not necessarily because the spouse found out and couldn’t forgive the behavior; it’s because the person who cheated couldn’t forgive themselves.
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2). Managing Caregiver Guilt: 5 Tips To Manage Guilt So Guilt Serves You, Not Imprisons You By : Vicki Rackner MD
Guilt is a common feeling in the landscape of care giving. Guilt can propel you to be the best you can be …or it can immobilize you. For caregivers, painful feelings -- such as guilt, sadness and anger -- are like any other pain. It’s your body’s way of saying, 'Pay attention.' Just as the pain of a burned finger pulls your hand from the stove, so, too, guilt guides your actions and optimizes your health.
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3). Anger and Guilt: The Perfect Marriage By : CHARLES M. BONASERA
Anger and Guilt: The Perfect Marriage
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4). Guilt, Resentment, and Our Struggles By : Irwin Gootnick
Why Do I Feel Guilty? Before we can start to understand the why behind the guilt, let’s first define it. Guilt means that we believe that something we are doing is causing pain to someone else. It’s activated by our behavior, thoughts, or feelings that we judge to be wrong or bad. Normal parents are protective of their children. But what if your.
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5). Can The Feeling Of Guilt Destroy Your Relationship? By : Sheila Easton
When the mind allows guilt to take over, it will tear down relationships, especially if the partner fails to come to terms and agreement with self. To determine if your mind is full of guilt you must ask your self-questions. What did you do so wrong that would offend your partner that cannot be forgiving? Guilt can break the mind down to the point of no return.
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6). Forgiveness: A Path to Healing By : Gwen Nyhus Stewart
In our journey to inner peace and healing, both guilt and forgiveness of self and others have a profound effect on this process. Guilt is defined as a feeling of culpability especially for imagined offences or from a sense of inadequacy; a self-reproach; and forgiveness as the act of forgiving or the ceasing of feeling resentment against an offender.
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7). Is Salvation Based On Grace Or Works By : Dr. Jay Snell
Some in the church in Galatia were peddling a doctrine of salvation by works. Paul asks and answers three bombshell questions of those Galatians who were trying to peddle this doctrine. These three questions and their answers stopped their salvation by works message in its tracks. You remember, of course, that Paul believed that Jesus' blood took care of the sin problem for the human race.
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8). Sometimes It’s Good To Feel Bad By : Pastor James Laws
“I did it again. I know I shouldn’t have but I did anyway. And then it happens…the remorse. I start to feel so bad. Like God is displeased with me or something. It’s just the enemy trying to trick me with condemnation. I’ve read my Bible and I know it says that there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. That means I shouldn’t feel bad or disappointed in myself.
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9). Guilt and Rebellion: Whose Life is It Anyway? By : Irwin Gootnick
Let’s try to crack the secret code of who’s in control. Once we do you’ll see how it will help you live your life more successfully and become less self-defeating and more in charge of all that affects you. Say Hello to Those Twin String Pullers A situation has just arisen and you’ve responded to it in a way that is over the top and completely inappropriate.
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10). Jesus and the Delete Button By : Beverly Vines-Haines
I just deleted Jesus! Well maybe not Jesus Himself but rather another dreadful and manipulative e-mail that warned, “Send this to five (or ten or fifteen) people within five minutes of reading it or Jesus will deny you, too.” Does your In Box get cluttered with these things?
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11). Understanding Self-Doubt, Shame, Guilt, Self-Rejection, Unworthiness By : Robert Elias Najemy
This is a part of a series of articles with questions, which will help us understand our emotions and how we can free ourselves from unwanted ones.
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12). How Can your Attention be Utilized as Your Energy? By : Clara Szalai
Open your horizons. Find quality in small things, not the big ones. A more spiritual orientation brings about observing the details that go by unseen when you look for the big things. SHET Can you control your attention? The ability to control your attention, to control where you focus your attention, endows you with the ability to create your environment.
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13). The Not so Perfect Parent or (Lose the Guilt) By : Francine Larson
All of us have that guilty feeling from time to time and yet it is the most wasted emotion of all. We can't take back words or actions, no matter how hard we wish. If you are a parent, this guilt seems to be present even more. This useless feeling is a universal phenomenon. Why does this "guilt trip" seem to be an expanding epidemic? I believe the answer to that is (1) More women work away from home (2)Single-parenting is on the rise and (3) There are so many books written on how to be a "good" parent.
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14). Guilt and Self-Destructive Behaviors By : Irwin Gootnick
Do you ever wonder if your parents graduated magna cum laude from Guilt University? Do you ever suspect that they majored in Suffering with a minor in Acting Out of Control? All the while earning high grades for other maneuvers that make you feel guilty instantly? I’m making light of something serious to make a point. That point is that we keep many of these guilt-provoking techniques in a place deep within us that affects our outlook, self-worth and future behavior.
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15). Toxic Guilt, Healthy Guilt By : Margaret Paul, Ph. D.
Guilt is an important feeling. It is the appropriate feeling to have when we have deliberately done something hurtful or harmful to others. People who can harm others without any feelings of guilt or remorse were formerly called sociopaths or psychopathic personalities, and are now defined as suffering from Anti-social Personality Disorder. Anti-social Personality Disorder is a severe disorder that includes – along with many other symptoms - the lack of a conscience.
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16). Caregiving Tips for Boomers: 5 Tips for Decreasing the Cost of Caring for Elderly Parents By : Vicki Rackner MD
Over 30 million Baby Boomers provide countless hours of assistance to elderly parents at no charge. It is estimated that, using average hourly wages, the total amount of this uncompensated care is comparable to the entire Medicare budget. For the estimated 7 million Boomers who provide long distance care, actual out of pocket expenses amount to almost $5,000 per month.
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17). Are You Drowning in Caregiving? By : Alice Endy
Most adult children fall into caregiving as a result of an incident that placed their elder in a crisis situation. After the dust settles and reality sets in, often we realize that our lives have changed and this change is often not welcomed.
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18). Making Good Decisions By : Pastor James Laws
Do you ever feel like every decision you make is wrong. You want to do the right thing but no matter how hard you try you end up doing the wrong thing. It's like, If given the option of two answers with only one answer being correct you would have a 99.8% chance of getting it wrong. It almost seems rigged. Many of us feel like that quite often. Not just because we actually did choose the wrong answer but even when we've made a good choice, it still feels wrong.
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19). 9 Powers of Apologizing: Healing Your Relationships By : Joshua Uebergang
There are many powers of apologizing. They go beyond healing your relationships too encouraging open communication and reparing self-esteem. Read on to discover the powers of apologizing.
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20). Feeling Guilty? - 7 Ways to Get Rid of Guilt By : Carolyn Bushong
Let a therapist tell you how to stop carrying around that self-blame or guilt for not being the perfect person.
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21). Why Krishna Consciousness Is Joyfully Performed By : Victor Epand
This article discusses how Krishna Consciousness is meant to be "joyfully performed".
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22). Guilt-The Most Destructive Energy in the Universe By : Evelyn Cole
Copyright 2006 Cole's Poetic License Thoughts are energy. They have vibrations like all forms of energy. Negative thoughts have destructive vibrations. Anger vibrates away from the self and eventually dissipates. Guilt vibrates inward and, unless dissipated through ritual, continues to destroy, year after year. I'll tell you some stories to illustrate my point.
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23). How to Nourish the Sandwich That is You By : Rosemary Lichtman
Are you sandwiched between caring for aging parents and growing children? Learn how to take better care of yourself. Here are seven tips to help you sustain and nourish yourself. Use them to reduce your stress as you balance your life.
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24). A Life Free Of Regrets By : Kevin Sinclair
Regret is one of the emotions that knits society together, as is remorse. Indeed, the concept of a society completely free of both emotions and their influence would be, in a lot of ways, anarchistic.
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25). You Feel Guilty Taking My Money? By : Janice Willingham
Do you sabotage or limit your success? Experience anxiety or guilt taking money? If so, you may be suffering from money phobia.
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